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Sonia ready to let Mamata play leading role in opposing Modi
The year 2024 may be three years away but the recent bonhomie between the Congress and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has set the ball rolling for the general elections where a united Opposition plans to halt the BJP juggernaut and take on PM Narendra Modi. Banerjee, who...
Extensive agenda for talks with US Secretary of State
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive in India on a two-day visit on Tuesday with an extensive agenda featuring the rapidly evolving security situation in Afghanistan, boosting Indo-Pacific engagement and ways to enhance COVID-19 response efforts among others. It will be Blinken’s first visit to India after...
BJP hopes for smooth transition after Yediyurappa exit
With BS Yediyurappa’s resignation from Chief Minister’s chair and speculation about the fallout in terms of how the former CM has taken it and possible resentment among the Lingayats, the BJP is confident to manage the change of guard well. A report in Times of India quoted BJP sources...
Pitched battle between Assam, Mizoram police forces
Guwahati: Gunshots ringing out on the highway, puffs of smoke, a road littered with stones and tear gas canisters and upturned vehicles of the roadside — the six-hour violence at the Assam-Mizoram border at Kolasib left the area looking like a battlefield and six men of the Assam...
Bengal sets up probe into Pegasus scandal
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee has set up a panel – consisting of retired judges Justice Jyotirmay Bhattacharya and Justice MB Lokur – to probe the Pegasus phone-hacking scandal. This comes days after her nephew and Trinamool MP, Abhishek Banerjee, appeared on a list of potential surveillance targets. This is...
8 names under consideration for Yediyurappa successor
The BJP top brass has shortlisted a few names to replace 78-year-old Lingayat strongman and chief minister BS Yediyurappa after he resigned on Monday, sources said. The names have been decided keeping in mind 2023 Karnataka assembly elections. A Times of India report quoted its sources as saying that...
FM says no plan to print currency to tide over Covid crisis
The impact of the second wave of Covid on the economy is expected to be muted given the localised containment measures and rapid upscaling of the vaccination drive, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has told Parliament. She has denied any plan to print currency to tide over the Covid crisis,...
Congress leader Alka Lamba in preventive custody
Congress leader and former MLA from Chandni Chowk constituency, Alka Lamba who was set to visit Jantar Mantar to participate in Mahila Kisan Sansad on Monday, has allegedly been put under house arrest. The former AAP leader also claimed that Delhi Police personnel are present at her residence and...
Chhattisgarh MLA accuses minister of murder bid
Raipur: Tussle within the Chhattisgarh Congress has spilled onto the street following a road rage incident involving a tribal MLA and a relative of state Health Minister TS Singh Deo. On Saturday evening, the convoy of Congress MLA from Balrampur, Brihaspati Singh, was passing through Ambikapur. Apparently angry at...
Mamata’s 3-day Delhi trip from today, to meet Sonia
Kolkata: In a bid to build a strong anti-Narendra Modi front to corner the ruling NDA in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Monday visit Delhi to meet influential opposition leaders, including Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi. She will reach the national...
Mamata in Delhi on 5-day visit; to meet PM, Opposition leaders
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in the national capital on Monday on a five-day visit and is likely to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday for the first time since she assumed office for a third term. According to a schedule provided by her Trinamool Congress,...
Yediyurappa cabinet colleague in Delhi adds to exit speculation
Amid heightened speculations about Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s exit, state minister Murugesh Nirani arrived in the national capital on Sunday apparently to meet BJP leaders, party sources said. People close to Nirani, however, claimed he is on a personal visit to the national capital. Earlier in the...
Farooq Abdullah calls for result-oriented Indo-Pak dialogue
National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah Sunday called for a sustained and result-oriented Indo-Pak dialogue process, saying the two countries should realise they cannot win a war against each other. Addressing party functionaries at two separate meetings at Laamad and Devsar in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, the Srinagar Lok...
Maken says no conflict in Rajasthan Congress
AICC general secretary Ajay Maken on Sunday said there is no conflict among the party leaders in Rajasthan on the planned cabinet reshuffle and they have left the decision on the central leadership. After meeting ministers, MLAs and office bearers at the party office here, Maken said they have...
TMC welcomes Cong tweet on snooping row
Kolkata, Jul 25: Amid the ongoing row over suspected Pegasus snooping, a tweet by the Congress underlining that TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee was “targeted” by the spyware ahead of Bengal assembly polls as the Modi government’s securities are endless, was on Sunday welcomed by the state’s ruling party. The...
Yediyurappa says he faced challenges from day 1
Bengaluru: As he stares at his possible exit, B S Yediyurappa on Saturday said he had to face several challenges from the day he took charge as the Chief Minister, but is satisfied that he has made honest efforts to better the lives of the people. The Chief Minister...
Farmers show black flags to Sidhu during Gurudwara visit
A group of farmers on Saturday showed black flags to newly appointed Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu when he arrived here to pay obeisance at a gurdwara. Protesters also raised slogans against Sidhu for his thirsty walks to the well remark made during his address in his installation...
Kejriwal says LG insulting people of Delhi
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s decision to reject a panel of lawyers picked by the city government for cases against the farmers protesting against the centre’s three new farm laws was “an insult to the people of Delhi”. “Overturning...
