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India concerned at China ship heading for Lankan port
A Chinese research and survey ship is due to dock in the Chinese-run Hambantota Port in southern Sri Lanka on August 11, leading India to closely monitor the situation. Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry media spokesman Colonel Nalin Herath said Sri Lanka understands India’s concern as the ship is capable...
Cong sees Herald House sealing as attempt to intimidate
Heightened police activity outside the Congress party’s headquarters and chief Sonia Gandhi’s residence following the sealing of the offices of a company linked to the party’s leadership was an attempt to intimidate the opposition, Congress leaders said on Wednesday. “@INCIndia is under siege. Delhi police has surrounded our HQs,...
Bengal CID teams ‘detained’ in Delhi, Guwahati
West Bengal CID claimed that two of its teams in New Delhi and Guwahati were restrained on Wednesday morning by the local police in the respective places from carrying out investigations into the cash seizure from three Jharkhand MLAs. A senior officer of the probe agency alleged that their...
Partha claims he is victim of conspiracy
Sacked Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee’s aide Arpita Mukherjee told Enforcement Directorate that she had no idea about the money and valuables in two of her apartments as Chatterjee would never allow her to enter the “locked rooms.” In the latest raid, cash and Rs 4.3 crore of jewellery were...
Alva gets boost with AAP, JMM support, but not enough
The Opposition camp Wednesday got a boost with the Aam Aadmi Party and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha announcing support to their joint vice presidential candidate Margaret Alva, but number are still firmly in favour of NDA nominee Jagdeep Dhankhar. The vice presidential poll to elect the successor to M...
Personal data protection bill withdrawn after criticism
The Personal Data Protection Bill, which sought to regulate how an individual’s data can be used by companies and the government, has been withdrawn after a joint parliamentary committee suggested 81 changes to it. According to government sources, considering the report of the joint parliamentary committee, a comprehensive legal...
Chinese fighter jets cross Taiwan Strait as tensions flare
Chinese fighter jets have crossed the Taiwan Strait, local media reported today, as tensions flare over an visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi is the highest-ranked American politican to visit the island in 25 years. “China’s Su-35 fighter jets are crossing the Taiwan Straits,” state...
Maharashtra CM Shinde says ministry expansion soon
The much-awaited expansion of the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra cabinet is expected to take place in the next four days, a spokesperson of the Shinde camp said on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Shinde himself had said it would happen “soon.” At present, Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister...
Govt denies plans to bring census into concurrent list
The government has no plans to bring the census into the concurrent list and allow state governments to conduct the census, Union Minister Nityanand Rai said in Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Rai, Union minister of state for home, also said that due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Sena slams BJP on Sanjay Raut’s arrest
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the arrest of Sanjay Raut by the Enforcement Directorate, saying such targeting of the Opposition did not happen even during the Emergency imposed by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. In an editorial in the party mouthpiece...
Raghuram Rajan says govt intolerant towards criticism
Raghuram Rajan, the former Governor of the Reserve Bank, told NDTV today that while growth figures in India is better than many nations, the country needs more on account of its huge population. Though the growth figure is around 7 per cent — which the government quoted in parliament...
TMC guns for BJP with ‘Guwahati link’ in Jharkhand MLAs case
Politics has picked up after three Congress MLAs from Jharkhand — Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachchap, and Naman Bixal Kongari — were arrested by the West Bengal Police and remanded to 10 days’ CID custody after a huge sum of money was seized from a vehicle with the three legislators...
Kejriwal promises 10 lakh govt jobs ahead of Gujarat polls
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal promised to create 10 lakh government jobs in Gujarat and a Rs 3,000 monthly unemployment allowance to young people if his government gets voted to power in the state. If AAP forms a government in Gujarat, his party will ensure that each and...
Al-Qaeda chief killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan
The United States has killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, according to US media outlets, in what the White House announced Monday was a “successful” operation against a target in Afghanistan. Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon who became one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, was identified as a mastermind of...
Koshyari apologises over his Gujarati-Rajasthani remarks
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, facing flak over his “Mumbai will have no money if the Gujaratis and Rajasthanis were to leave remarks, on Monday apologised for the same. Koshyari made the controversial comments during a function to name a chowk (intersection) in suburban Andheri on Friday evening. ”I...
Delhi bars, shops closed pending excise policy extension
Even as the AAP government granted a one-month extension of the current liquor excise policy, clubs, hotels and restaurants in Delhi did not serve alcohols as the worry about the future of their liquor licenses could be seen clearly. The Delhi government on Sunday decided to extend the retail licenses for one...
AAP looks set to be BJP’s main challenger in 2022 Gujarat poll
Come August, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) commander-in-chief Arvind Kejriwal will launch a blitzkrieg campaign in Gujarat, the home turf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. The onslaught of charges by central agencies against two of his close lieutenants — Manish Sisodia and Satyendra Jain —...
‘Money not mine, time will tell,’ claims Partha Chatterjee
Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who is at the centre of a multi-crore school job scam, on Sunday claimed that the money recovered during Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids does not belong to him, and only time will tell who all have “conspired” against him. As he de-boarded a vehicle...
