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UP set to include 39 castes in OBC list with eye on elections
Months ahead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government in the State has started preparations to include 39 castes in the list of Other Backward Castes (OBC) in the State. The Chairman of State Backward Classes Commission, Jaswant Saini, has said that the...
Amarinder to meet Sonia as Sidhu barbs continue
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is scheduled to meet Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday ahead of a much-anticipated cabinet reshuffle in the state. It also comes amid strong indications that his long-running feud with Navjot Singh Sidhu, the new head of the party’s state unit, hasn’t...
BJP leader, 5 others held for anti-Muslim slogans
New Delhi: BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay and five others have been arrested over violent anti-Muslim slogans raised at a protest held at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Sunday. Ashwini Upadhyay, who organised the protest, was questioned till late last night along with other accused. The arrests followed outrage over videos...
Nitish Kumar hints at state-level caste census
Patna: If the Central government does not hold a caste-based Census, then a discussion may be initiated on carrying out an exercise to enumerate caste data at the state level in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said today. He took the stance days after failing to elicit any response...
Congress appoints Chidambaram as observer for Goa
The Congress has appointed party veteran P Chidambaram as its senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls due next year. AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal issued an order to this effect on Sunday. Chidambaram will oversee election strategies and coordination for the upcoming Assembly election in the...
BJP gets 6 new deputy Whips for Lok Sabha coordination
The Bharatiya Janata Party recently appointed six new deputy whips in the Lok Sabha in addition to the existing ones. While Madhya Pradesh MP Rakesh Singh continues to be the chief of whips, he now has a total of 10 deputies under him to coordinate better in the Lok...
Opposition backs Govt on OBC bill, but no change on Pegasus
The OBC amendment bill proposed by the centre to enable states to make their own list of Other Backward Classes received the stamp of approval from the Opposition parties even amid an ongoing disagreement with the centre over farmers’ protest and the alleged Pegasus spyware scandal. Expressing his support...
Supreme Court refuses to stop probe against Flipkart, Amazon
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt an inquiry into Amazon and Flipkart’s business practices, rejecting their demands to pause a Competition Commission of India (CCI) probe. The CCI had ordered the investigation last year – for allegedly promoting select sellers on their e-commerce platforms and using...
FIR over viral video of anti-Muslim slogans at Jantar Mantar
A video allegedly from a march held at Jantar Mantar in the heart of Delhi on Sunday has gone viral over egregiously communal slogans raised at the event that the police say was held without permission. The march was reportedly organised by Supreme Court lawyer and former Delhi...
Modi to chair UN Security Council meet today for first time
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to become the first Indian Prime Minister to chair a United Nations Security Council open debate that is scheduled to take place later this evening. The debate will shine a spotlight on enhancing maritime security. Taking over from France, India assumed...
Ganga, Yamuna above danger-mark in UP
Lucknow: At least 357 villages across 21 districts in Uttar Pradesh have been inundated with floodwater due to heavy rainfall in the state. Hamirpur and Jalun districts in Bundelkhand region are the worst affected. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will take an aerial survey of the flood-affected regions today to...
Chief Justice: biggest human right violations in police stations
New Delhi: The threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the “highest in police stations”, Chief Justice of India Justice N V Ramana said at a function today, expressing concern about custodial torture. Calling human rights and dignity “sacrosanct”, he said, “custodial torture and other police atrocities are...
Delhi starts colour-coded Covid alert levels 1 To 4
New Delhi: Amid fears of a possible third wave of Covid infections, Delhi has put into force a graded action plan to tackle any surge in cases in the coming days. The national capital is the first city to enforce such a plan. The action plan, which lays down...
Bommai keeps plum Bengaluru Development portfolio
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday allocated cabinet portfolios, retaining crucial posts, including Finance and Bengaluru Development for himself. The decision has stirred disenchantment among the party loyalists and turncoats who had eyes on the portfolio. Bommai has retained DPAR, Finance, and Intelligence from Home, Cabinet Affairs, Bengaluru...
Tight security at Delhi airport after terrorist threat
New Delhi: Security has been increased at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport after a bomb threat email to Delhi Police cautioned about terrorist outfit Al Qaeda planning to attack the airport. As per an official statement by the airport, after investigation the threat was found “non-specific” and Bomb Threat...
Yediyurappa gets cabinet rank status for nothing
The Karnataka government on Saturday issued an order providing former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa all facilities on par with Cabinet-rank ministers. This will be applicable until Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is in office, an official notification from the protocol wing of the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms...
Trinamool alleges leaders hurt in Tripura attack
Agartala/Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Saturday alleged that two of its youth leaders from West Bengal were injured when their vehicle was allegedly attacked by BJP activists in Tripura’s Dhalai district. Following the incident, Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, who is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew...
Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account temporarily blocked
The Congress on Saturday said its leader Rahul Gandhi’s Twitter account had been “temporarily locked” after the social media platform countered the party’s claim that his handle had been “temporarily suspended” amid a controversy over the removal of an image posted by the MP a day ago. Rahul Gandhi’s...
