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Mamata goes all out to clean govt’s tainted image
In strict rules sent to all districts of Bengal on 100 days of work and other programmes, the state government has stressed on ‘zero tolerance to corruption’ as its main message. The new rules issued by the government clearly state that if money has been disbursed in the name...
Cong seeks CBI probe into corruption by Mann govt
After the CBI registered an offence against Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, the Punjab Congress has now launched an attack on the Bhagwant Mann government seeking a probe into Punjab’s excise policy alleging that it had been ‘manipulated’ on the lines of Delhi. A battery of senior party...
Gujarat Cong demands deletion of 18-20 lakh ‘fake’ voters
Senior Congress leaders from Gujarat have alleged that there are at least 18 to 20 lakh duplicate voters found in the electoral list of the state. These duplicate voters misuse the elections, they said. Congress Legislative Party whip C.J. Chavda addressing the mediapersons in Gandhinagar on Saturday cited few...
Tejashwi issues code of conduct for RJD ministers
In an apparent attempt at image makeover for his party, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday came up with a list of do’s and dont’s for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) ministers. The directives came as the RJD is facing the heat over criminal cases pending against many ministers. The RJD leader...
KCR charges Modi govt with ‘anti-people’ policies
TRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday accused the NDA government at the Centre of not deciding on the State’s share of Krishna river water and also of taking up several anti-people measures, even as he talked of working with the Left parties in future....
Modi vs Kejriwal in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, says AAP
It will be Narendra Modi versus Arvind Kejriwal in the 2024 general elections, the AAP claimed Friday seeking to project itself as the principal challenger to the BJP riding on the CBI raid at Manish Sisodia’s residence. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also claimed that Prime Minister Modi is...
Cong claims Rs 2,500 crore bid for Karnataka CM post
Amid an eventful two days for the Congress in Karnataka after Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah’s car was attacked with eggs in Kodagu on Thursday, the grand old party went a step ahead and alleged that the chief minister’s post in the state was “for sale”. Leader of opposition in...
Delhi Lt Governor transfers 12 officers after Sisodia raid
In a bureaucratic reshuffle, a dozen IAS officers were shifted between departments on Friday, hours after a CBI raid at Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s residence in connection with the Delhi excise policy. According to a transfer posting order issued by the services department of the Delhi government, those...
BJP, AAP spar over ‘paid news’ charge after NYT report
The New York Times story on Delhi’s education system was based on “an impartial and on-the-ground reporting”, the American newspaper said on Friday, rejecting a ‘paid news’ charge that was being hurled between the BJP and AAP amid a CBI raid on Manish Sisodia’s residence. The report had triggered...
Bhutan faces Lanka-type crisis as forex reserves plummet
Bhutan will ban the import of all vehicles except utility vehicles, heavy earthmoving machines and agriculture machinery to save dwindling foreign exchange reserves, the government said in a notice seen by Reuters on Friday. Nestled between China and India, the country of fewer than 800,000 people is grappling with...
BJP guns for Nitish over increase in Patna crimes
“Nyay ke saath vikas, kanoon ka raj (justice and development, rule of law and order),” proclaims a giant hoarding with a full-length image of Nitish Kumar outside the Janata Dal (United) office in Patna. Nearby, at the Bharatiya Janata Party’s office, the leading opposition party is highlighting a spree...
Extortion staple diet of Bengal politics, says Union minister
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that he is sympathetic to the demands of aspiring teachers on stir and asserted that he is yet to get a reply from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the issue. Pradhan, a senior BJP leader, also said that it...
Kejriwal praises Sisodia after CBI raids against minister
Reacting to CBI raids on his deputy Manish Sisodia over Delhi government’s now-withdrawn policy on liquor sales, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the action is “welcome” and they “will cooperate fully”, but expressed confidence that “nothing will come out”. The raids at 20 locations, including Sisodia’s official residence,...
Bilkis Bano’s rapists ‘Brahmins with good sanskar’: BJP leader
The 11 men convicted for the rape of Bilkis Bano and released by the Gujarat government after 15-odd years in jail, are “Brahmins” and have “good sanskaar“, the BJP’s sitting MLA from Godhra has said. Amid the countrywide outrage over the men’s release, CK Raulji has backed the men,...
Haryana official caught demanding Scotch for minister
An excise official was given a punishment posting and transferred to the department headquarters after an audio message in which he is allegedly heard telling a liquor store employee to send scotch whiskey bottles for a minister’s function. In the audio file, which the liquor store owner has sent...
BSY hits jackpot in elevation to central leadership
A day after India’s 76th Independence Day, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa, who was unseated a year ago because he was above 75 years old, hit the jackpot. The BJP high command in New Delhi rewarded him with two posts — member of the party’s supreme decision-making body,...
Chote Sarkar is big headache for Nitish-Tejashwi’s bada sarkar
Jailed don Anant Singh and his right-hand man, Bihar’s new Law Minister Kartikeya Kumar, have become a headache for the newly sworn-in Nitish Kumar-Tejashwi Yadav government in the state. Anant Singh, the RJD’s leader from Mokama popularly called ‘Chote Sarkar’, was sentenced to 10 years in jail just two...
Lalu Yadav vows to oust Modi from power
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday slammed the BJP government at the centre as “dictatorial” and vowed to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power in the 2024 general elections. He made the remarks when asked about the way forward for the 2024 polls. The...
