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Tejashwi says govt will deliver on its 10 lakh jobs promise
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Prasad Yadav has asserted that his newly formed government will deliver on the promise of providing 10 lakh jobs that he had made while spearheading the RJD’s campaign during the Bihar assembly elections in 2020. Yadav claimed that Nitish Kumar, with whom he took...
Nitish denies BJP claim he wanted to be vice-president
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has rejected claims by BJP MP and his former deputy Sushil Kumar Modi that some people in Kumar’s party sent feelers to nominate the Chief Minister for the Vice President’s post. “We supported the NDA candidates in the presidential and vice presidential elections. It’s...
CBI arrests TMC leader after skipping summons in cattle case
Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in a cattle smuggling case after failing to appear for questioning twice in three days. After the CBI filed a FIR in 2020, his name came up in the case. According to the CBI, over...
Mizoram, Assam CMs to hold border talks in Delhi
Mizoram and Assam will hold chief minister-level talks in New Delhi later this month or early September to find an amicable solution to the inter-state border dispute, according to an official statement issued on Wednesday. The development came a day after the two northeastern states held a ministerial-level discussion...
Gehlot speaks to Mann in row over sewage water dumping
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Wednesday spoke to his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann over the issue of sewage water from the AAP-ruled state being dumped in the Indira Gandhi Canal Project. Gehlot said the two leaders also discussed relining work of the Sirhind Feeder canal. Talked to the Chief...
Move for change of Karnataka CM denied
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will stay in the top post at least till the next assembly election, which is less than a year away, sources in the Delhi BJP have confirmed amid much speculation on the matter in the state. There has been a buzz about a change...
Cong to get Bihar Speaker’s post, BJP ministries for RJD
Bihar’s mercurial Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is all set to take oath for the eighth time on Wednesday and will now head a coalition of seven parties, backed by an Independent. While Kumar, who split with his ally BJP for the second time in eight years, is yet to...
Akhilesh says Bihar developments a good start
The change of government in Bihar has filled the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh with ‘optimism’. SP President Akhilesh Yadav sees the BJP-JD(U) break-up as a “good start” for Indian politics. “This is the beginning of the end. It signals ‘BJP satta chhodo’ on the lines of ‘Angrezo...
Cong predicts end of ‘puppet CM’ Bommai’s innings soon
Referring to the current political developments in Karnataka and the BJP, the Congress in a series of tweets took jibes at the state government and said that the state appears set to see a third Chief Minister after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Bengaluru last week. The...
Trinamool in damage-control mode over ‘tainted’ leaders
Eighteen days after the arrest of former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee in a teacher recruitment scam, the rage over the issue among the common people is still bubbling. The state’s ruling Trinamool Congress though appears to be distancing itself from the matter and on July 29 it...
BJD, Cong reject Shah’s claim of BJP govt in Odisha next
The Congress and BJD on Tuesday rejected Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s assertion that the BJP will form the next government in Odisha. During a visit to the state on Monday, the senior BJP leader expressed confidence that the party will form government at the Centre and in Odisha...
Nitish Kumar resigns citing ‘consensus’ to ditch alliance
Nitish Kumar on Tuesday announced he has submitted his resignation as chief minister of Bihar’s NDA government hours after he said the JD(U)’s alliance with the BJP has ended. In his first statement following his meeting with Governor Fagu Chauhan, Kumar said the decision to sever ties with NDA...
BJP says Nitish betrayed people of Bihar, readies plan
Dumped yet again by Nitish Kumar in Bihar, the BJP is readying its arsenal against the new alliance of JD(U), RJD and Congress again joining forces, and will attack the new government on the issue of corruption, law and order and abuse of the public mandate in the 2020...
No woman in 20-member Maharashtra cabinet
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expanded his two-member ministry 41 days after taking oath as the CM by inducting 18 ministers, nine each from his rebel Shiv Sena group and the BJP. The list doesn’t include a woman, a move being panned by politicians and women’s rights...
Parliament adjourned sine die 4 days before schedule
The Parliament’s Monsoon Session ended on Monday, four days before its scheduled completion, with both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha adjourned sine die. The session, which began on July 18, was slated to go on till August 12. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, before adjourning the ninth...
8 Cong MLAs to defect in a month, claims Assam BJP man
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) four-time Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Prasanta Phukan of Assam claimed on Monday that eight Congress MLAs will join the ruling BJP within a month. An event to facilitate this will be held soon, he said. Prasanta Phukan, who represents the Dibrugarh constituency in Upper...
Badal warns party members against airing views outside
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday set up a five-member disciplinary committee and also appealed to party members to only use the party platform to express their views. The committee will be headed by senior Akali leader Sikandar Singh Maluka. The other members are Sharanjt Singh Dhillon, Virsa...
China seeks urgent meeting after Lanka bows to Indian pressure
China’s embassy in Colombo has sought an urgent meeting with senior Sri Lankan authorities after Colombo sought a deferment of the planned docking of a high-tech Chinese research vessel at the strategic Hambantota port over which India raised concerns, sources said. The Chinese space and satellite tracking research vessel...
