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KCR’s Bihar tour turns laughing stock over ‘Nitish as PM’
The video of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao repeatedly asking his Bihar counterpart to ‘Please sit down, please sit down’ and let him answer the media’s questions is now going viral. The BJP, which has shared the video, blamed Nitish’s ‘self-conceited’ nature behind it, while adding that KCR...
Kidnap-accused Bihar minister forced to quit
A minister in the Nitish Kumar government, who is an accused in a 2014 kidnapping case, resigned on Wednesday night amid protests by the opposition. Earlier in the day, the Bihar Law Minister Kartik Kumar, a leader from the alliance partner Rashtriya Janata Dal, was moved to the sugracane...
Kanhaiya, Khera among ‘yatris’of 3,500-km Cong march
Congress leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Pawan Khera and former Punjab minister Vijay Inder Singla feature in a tentative list of “Bharat Yatris”, who will walk throughout the 3,500-km stretch of the party’s Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir “Bharat Jodo Yatra” starting September 7. Former Youth Congress president Keshav Chandra Yadav and Vaibhav Walia, secretary...
Portugal minister quits after pregnant Indian tourist dies
Portugal’s Health Minister Marta Temido resigned on Tuesday after the widespread criticism of her decision to temporarily close emergency obstetric services and the death of an Indian pregnant woman during transfer between hospitals. Ms Temido in a sentence said that she “no longer has the conditions” to exercise the...
Shivakumar says Karnataka ‘country’s corruption capital’
The Congress today accused the BJP of deflecting attention from multiple corruption scandals in Karnataka ahead of the next year’s elections, with focus on communal issues like the row over hijab, halal meat and the lately, the Ganesh Chaturthi celebration on Eidgah land. In an exclusive interview with NDTV,...
BJP leaders ‘purify’ Rajghat with ‘gangajal’ after AAP visit
BJP leaders, including South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri, sprinkled ‘Gangajal’ at the entrance of Rajghat on Tuesday to “purify” the place after it was visited by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and his MLAs. The south Delhi MP, who was accompanied by Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Ramvir...
Azad explains to G-23 leaders why he quit suddenly
Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the Congress on Friday, today met with three leaders of the party who were part of the “G-23” or group of dissenters – Anand Sharma, Prithviraj Chavan and Bhupinder Hooda. The leaders visited Azad at his home in Delhi and asked him “first hand”...
Kidnap accused Bihar minister shifted from law portfolio
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has transferred out Kartikeya Singh as the Law Minister amidst a controversy surrounding the latter in a kidnapping case. Kartikeya Singh, aka Kartik Singh, has been given the low-profile sugarcane industries department and Shamim Ahmed now holds the law ministry. मंत्री कार्तिक कुमार का...
Missing ministers, MPs spark buzz at BJP’s Bengal camp
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal “Chintan Shibir” kicked off on Monday at Vedic Village Resort near Kolkata. But the nonappearance of three central ministers from the state set tongues wagging. Nisith Pramanik, John Barla, and Shantanu Thakur were conspicuous by their absence. Apart from them, party MPs Raju...
Last Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev dead
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 92, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and...
Tharoor may run for Cong president against Gehlot
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is exploring the possibility of running for the post of Congress president though he is yet to take a final call on it, sources said. They said he has not made up his mind but could take a call on it soon. While Tharoor...
AAP overnight protest against L-G, BJP launches its own
Amid the ongoing war of words between them on allegations of corruption, AAP and BJP legislators held overnight protests on the Delhi Assembly premises on Monday. Hours after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its night-long sit-in against the Lieutenant Governor, BJP MLAs also started an overnight dharna on...
Azad says Jairam Ramesh’s only job is to ‘plant stories’
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the latest high-profile exit from the Congress, launched a scorching attack on his former colleague, Jairam Ramesh, accusing him of being a nobody in the party and whose only job is to “plant stories”. The former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister ended his five-decade association with...
Cong says Rahul will walk ‘all the way’ during Yatra
The Congress on Monday said the 150-day Bharat Jodo Yatra from September 7 covering 3,500 kms will be the party’s biggest ever ‘Jan Sampark’ programme and Rahul Gandhi will walk “all the way” from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. The BJP is “rattled” by the enthusiasm and response to the Yatra...
No plan to ban Chinese phones below Rs 12,000
The government has asked Chinese mobile companies to increase their exports from India and there is no proposal to ban the sale of handsets below Rs 12,000 made by such firms, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Monday. The Minister of State for Electronics and IT also said that...
Kejriwal to take majority test to prove support intact
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will take a confidence vote in the house today to prove all Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs are with him despite what he claims are the BJP’s attempts to break his party and dislodge his government. Kejriwal said he wanted to take the majority...
Chorus of ‘Rahul for president’ grows, CWC mum
The Congress party, staring at a massive setback following the exit of party veteran Ghulam Nabi Azad, held a key meeting yesterday and announced that it would hold the election for its president on October 17. The results for the elections are to be announced on October 19. While...
Nadda seen likely to continue as BJP chief till 2024
JP Nadda’s tenure as BJP president will be over next year in January but sources say he is likely to get an extension till the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Highly placed sources in the party said Nadda will continue as party chief till at least 2024 if not for...
