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Hints of farm laws withdrawal ahead of UP poll
A BJP leader has supported farmers’ agitation against the three new farm laws and said that the BJP-led central government could withdraw them keeping in mind Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. “The demands made by the farmers are right. Keeping in mind the assembly polls and anger among the farmers,...
Salman Khurshid among 38 in Cong UP poll panel
Gearing up for the Assembly polls next year, the Congress on Wednesday constituted the election committee for Uttar Pradesh, which includes state unit chief Ajay Kumar Lallu and former Union ministers Salman Khurshid, Rajeev Shukla and R P N Singh. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has approved the proposal of...
Rahul Gandhi bats for rewards to sportspersons
Enough of video of phone calls, now sportspersons should get rewards as promised, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Monday in an apparent swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In an Instagram post, he posted screenshots of media reports claiming that Olympians in the past had not been paid...
Slug fest over renaming of Indira canteens
Amid the ruling BJP’s attempt to change the name of Karnataka’s infamous Indira canteens, named after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Congress and BJP leaders indulged in a Twitter spar on Saturday. Ex-CM Siddaramaiah asked the BJP government not to get into ‘petty politics’ over the same issue. BJP...
Bommai denies confusion over cabinet, portfolios
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said there is no confusion regarding cabinet expansion and portfolio allocation and that he would talk to all those who have issues and will resolve it. Amid simmering discontent within the party with several Ministerial aspirants not making it to the cabinet...
TN white paper blames AIADMK for financial ‘mismanagement’
The DMK government in Tamil Nadu on Monday released a White Paper on the state’s finances and highlighted the fiscal imbalance and mounting debt created by the “mismanagement by the previous AIADMK government”. Finance minister PTR Palanivel Thiaga Rajan blamed the previous AIADMK government’s “lack of political will and...
9 parties fined in Supreme Court’s big move In decriminalising politics
Nine political parties including the BJP and Congress were held guilty of contempt and fined today by the Supreme Court for not making public criminal records of their poll candidates. The Congress, BJP and five other parties have been fined Rs 1 lakh each. The CPM and the Nationalist...
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...
