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Punjab Cong in-charge Rawat’s meeting with CM triggers speculation
The Congress’s Punjab In-Charge, Harish Rawat, was today flown into Chandigarh in a state government chopper to meet Chief Minister Amarinder Singh even as the rebellion in party’s unit there continued to simmer. The senior leader arrival came hours after indications that cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu may be given...
Mamata’s graffiti fill walls of Tamil Nadu
Graffitis of West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee have come up in Tamil Nadu, but with a twist. Banerjee is not ‘Didi’ anymore, but ‘Amma’ – the beloved moniker used for former Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa. ‘Amma’ literally means mother in Tamil. As Banerjee...
SC asks UP to reconsider Kanwar Yatra
New Delhi: States must not allow the movement of devotees undertaking the ‘Kanwar yatra’ due to the pandemic situation, the Centre told the Supreme Court today during a hearing on the matter. Instead, states should develop a system to make the holy water from Ganga available to the devotees through tankers,...
Mamata to meet Sonia, others during Delhi visit
Amid talks of the opposition joining hands to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee plans to go to Delhi later this month to meet the opposition leaders. Though Banerjee termed it as a normal visit, her proposed visit...
Cong to wait to declare Punjab CM face till elections
Navjot Singh Sidhu’s impending appointment as the President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) could mean he could be the next chief minister of the state if Congress wins in 2022 and a majority of the MLAs support him, as was the precedent earlier in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh...
NITI Aayog CEO justifies high fuel prices
Investing huge sums into top quality infrastructure will lead to a high trajectory of growth, but it is a difficult choice to make if resources are scarce, the Chief Executive of the government think tank NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, told NDTV. The government has been battling criticism over...
Rahul among those hailing Supreme Court on sedition law
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and leaders of other opposition parties have commended the Supreme Court terming India’s sedition law as “colonial”. A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, while agreeing to look into petitions by the Editors Guild of India and a Major General (retired) challenging...
10 of 30 people falling into MP well remain to be rescued
Vidhisha, Madhya Pradesh: In a major mishap, around 30 people fell into a well in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district on Thursday, police said. The incident happened when the villagers were trying to rescue a boy who had fallen in the well earlier. As per the officials, the roof of...
Mamata’s Delhi trip could be part of Prashant Kishor’s strategy
On March 23, 2019 — ahead of the Lok Sabha Polls — Congress president Rahul Gandhi compared Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with BJP’s Narendra Modi. This happened two months after when his mother and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi extended support to Banerjee’s mega ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (Grand Alliance) rally...
RBI says near-term economic prospects bright
A gradual decline in India’s second wave of COVID-19 infections and an aggressive vaccination push have brightened the near-term prospects for the economy, the Reserve Bank of India said in its July bulletin, released on Thursday. The RBI said there had been a rise in mobility indicators and attendance...
Centre releases Rs 75,000 crore to states as GST compensation
The government on Thursday said it has released Rs 75,000 crore to the states and Union Territories to compensate them for the shortfall in GST revenue. The GST Council in its meeting on May 28 had decided that the central government would borrow Rs 1.59 lakh crore and release...
Two Maharajas on sale, says Chhattisgarh CM Baghel
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently expanded his Cabinet and included many new faces including Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel attacked Scindia for being made the Union Civil Aviation Minister. Baghel said that the logo of Air India is Maharaja and Scindia is from the...
Arunachal parties write to President over dispute with Assam
Four opposition parties in Arunachal Pradesh, including the Congress, have written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention in resolving the boundary dispute between the state and neighbouring Assam, after a recent controversy over Kimin area along the interstate border. In a memorandum to Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday,...
Jaishankar meets Chinese counterpart on LAC standoff
India and China have agreed that solving the border row should be prioritised as “a prolongation of the existing situation was not in the interest of either side”, the government said today in a statement after a meeting between Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang...
DMK’s Dayanidhi Maran flown to Chennai by BJP’s pilot Rudy
DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in a tweet thread narrated how he ran into his parliamentary colleague and BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy – and why he thought it was an interesting meet. The DMK leader titled the thread “A Flight to Remember.” Mr Maran had boarded an IndiGo flight...
Population control debate exposes Bihar fault lines
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s apparent distaste for enforcing population control through legal means, in the face of his ally BJP coming out in support of such coercive measures, has once again exposed the ideological fault lines within the ruling coalition here. Kumar had voiced his disapproval of adopting...
TMC raps EC for by-elections delay
Voicing displeasure over the “delay” in holding elections to seven West Bengal assembly seats, crucial for Mamata Banerjee’s uninterrupted continuance as the chief minister, the TMC said on Wednesday a party delegation will meet the Election Commission on July 15 to press for it. Sukhendu Shekhar Ray, a senior...
Rahul walks out of defence panel meet over China
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and some of his parliamentary colleagues walked out of a Defence Committee meeting after they were not allowed to discuss border issues with China, sources have said. The meeting was scheduled at 3 pm today, they said. A request by Mr Gandhi and the Congress...
