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Mann govt trains guns on ‘corrupt’ ex-ministers
In what could raise political temperatures in Punjab, the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday asked former chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh to make public names of former ministers involved in “corrupt” practices or hand over evidences to investigating agencies so that the government can initiate action against...
Expelled Mayawati favourite lands up in Cong
The former minister in the Bahujan Samaj Party government in Uttar Pradesh and once a Brahmin face of the BSP, Nakul Dubey, joined Indian National Congress yesterday in Delhi. Once considered a blue-eyed boy of BSP chief Mayawati, Dubey was expelled from BSP a few days back for...
Telangana CM holds talks with Deve Gowda in Bengaluru
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday called on JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda at his residence here and held discussions on various issues. KCR, as he is popularly known, left for Bengaluru hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hyderabad visit to participate in the 20th year...
Cong may get 11 RS seats to better its strength
The Congress is likely to get 11 Rajya Sabha seats in the upcoming election cycle with some of its top leaders, including P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, eyeing another term. This will also help the Congress strengthen its party position in the Upper House of Parliament from the current...
KCR likely to skip PM’s Hyderabad meeting today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Hyderabad on Thursday to attend the 20th annual celebrations at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is reportedly set to skip meeting Modi and will be in Bengaluru on Thursday to meet JD(S) leader and former...
Karti Chidambaram appears before CBI in visa scam case
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram reached the CBI headquarters on Thursday to join the investigation into an alleged scam pertaining to the issuance of visas to 263 Chinese nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the home minister, officials said. A special court had ordered him to...
Yogi intervenes in Akhilesh’s spat with deputy CM
The Uttar Pradesh assembly on Wednesday witnessed a heated exchange of words between Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya during the budget session. UP CM Yogi Adityanath had to intervene and he stated that unparliamentary words and threats should not be made part...
Meghalaya, Assam to begin new round of boundary talks
Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Wednesday said that he and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma will soon commence the second phase of dialogue to resolve the remaining six areas of difference along the inter-state boundary. The two northeastern states have earlier agreed to demarcate the...
Row over Rahul’s meeting with ‘anti-India’ Corbyn
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s meeting with British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in London triggered a row back home with the BJP asking him whether he endorsed the UK opposition leader’s “anti-India” views. The Congress justified Gandhi’s meeting and shared pictures of Corbyn with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to...
SC asks Jharkhand HC to decide on probe against CM
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Jharkhand High Court to first hear preliminary objections on maintainability of a PIL, which it is hearing, seeking investigation against Chief Minister Hemant Soren and into transactions of some shell companies operated by his family members and associates into the alleged...
