Ahmedabad: Congress’ maverick OBC lawmaker Alpesh Thakor, who had been keeping the party on tenterhooks amid speculation that he was headed for the ruling BJP, cleared the air on Saturday saying that his concerns had been settled for now. Thakor’s announcement came as a respite for the Congress, which faced[Read More…]
Raipur: In a big decision, Congress led Chhattisgarh government has provided the police jawans and employees much relief. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has announced a weekly off to the police jawans in the state, adding to it the DA of all the government employees has also been increased from 5[Read More…]
New Delhi: The BJP parliamentary board met here on Friday under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and decided to ally with All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) in Jharkhand ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The highest decision making body of the ruling party also decided that Modi will[Read More…]
New Delhi: BJP President Amit Shah on Friday hit out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi soon after Attorney General K. K. Venugopal said he had never told the Supreme Court that Rafale file/documents were stolen, but the photocopies of the same were unauthorisedly taken away. Shah alleged that Rahul Gandhi[Read More…]
Shillong: Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy on Friday said the government is committed to promoting scientific and secure coal mining in the state in line with direction of the National Green Tribunal (NGT). “The government has framed the guidelines for coal mining and an action plan has been prepared in consultation[Read More…]
From “exasperating farrago of distortions” to “Floccinaucinihilipilification”, Congress MP, Shashi Tharoor who turns 63 today, has always been in news for his usage of words that can make anyone feel how little English do they know. And what better day, then today to brush up the vocabulary that the Thiruvananthapuram[Read More…]
It’s a day of celebration, it’s a day of seeing how far we have reached and how much distance remains yet to be covered when it comes to bringing women to equal footing as men, it is the International Women’s Day. International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March every[Read More…]
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday expressed his displeasure over inclusion of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in the three member mediation panel constituted by the Supreme Court to settle the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Ayodhya title dispute case. Owaisi, however, welcomed the verdict and hoped he the spiritual[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Senior Gujarat Congress legislator and mining and education baron Jawahar Chavda resigns as MLA. He is a 4 time MLA from Manavadar. He is likely to join BJP soon. After Kunvarji Bavaliya and Asha Patel, Jawahar Chavda is the third Congress MLA to resign from the current Gujarat Legislative[Read More…]
Kohima: Former Nagaland Chief Minister, veteran politician KL Chishi resigned from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday. Chishi, who had joined the saffron party last year, was annoyed by the BJP-led NDA government at the centre for their alleged insincerity in coming up with a solution to the Naga[Read More…]
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Friday released the first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In the list, the party which formed an alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party, has announced six of it’s candidates for the General elections. The list includes SP party patriarch Mulayam Singh[Read More…]
Marking International Women’s Day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday took pride in her ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) for having 35 per cent female MPs and reservation of 50 per cent of the seats for women in the state’s local bodies. “While the Women’s Reservation Bill has not[Read More…]
Congress has put out its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, with party chief Rahul Gandhi contesting his bastion Amethi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi contesting from her home turf, Rae Bareli. Congress has also announced a few seats in Gujarat, including the Vadodara and Anand constituencies[Read More…]
Mumbai: Dhananjay Munde, who is also Leader of Opposition in the state, and a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, has accused BJP Minister for Women and Child Welfare in the state, Pankaja Munde, of masterminding the Rs 106 crore scam involving in the mass purchase of cellphones. Pankaja Munda, minister[Read More…]
Congress MLA Alpesh Thakor, may join Bharatiya Janata Party soon. Along with Alpesh, many other Congress MLAs are also expected to switch over to the BJP. It has being reported that Alpesh could be made a minister directly in the BJP government. It is noteworthy Thakor had accused the party[Read More…]
By Imran Khan Patna: Union Minister Giriraj Singh is upset with his party, the BJP, as the national leadership has reportedly agreed to give the Nawada parliamentary seat in Bihar that he represents to the LJP, an NDA constituent. The Nawada seat is said to have gone to the LJP[Read More…]
Political circles in Gujarat are abuzz with talks of Patidar leader Hardik Patel likely to join the Congress on March 12, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and will contest the Lok Sabha election from Jamnagar constituency in Gujarat. Patel, who led the agitation demanding reservation for the Patidar community,[Read More…]
The bitter rivalry between West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress and formidable challengers BJP will now spill over to the streets of Kolkata on Friday – the International Women’s Day – when stalwarts of the two parties take part in mega rallies around the same time. As in previous years, West[Read More…]
Sant Kabir Nagar: During the meeting of the District Planning Committee in the Collectorate Auditorium on Wednesday evening, Sharad Tripathi and Menhdawal MLA Rakesh Singh Baghel got entangled in the meeting. The argument broke on the issue over the placement of names on a foundation stone of a project in the[Read More…]
The matter took place in the Bangana tehsil of the Una district, Himachal Pradesh
New Delhi: Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Tuesday gave indications of her eagerness to contest from her present Lok Sabha constituency of Bathinda at a time when speculations around her shifting to another constituency are at a full flow. The Shiromani Akali Dal Bhatinda MP said, “Though it is[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Wednesday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to file a case against him over allegations from BJP leaders that he was an anti-national and a Pakistan supporter. In a series of tweets, Singh, who stirred a controversy on Tuesday by referring to the Pulwama terror[Read More…]
Amid the on-going complex divorce case of former state health minister Tej Pratap Yadav and his wife Aishwarya Rai, Janata Dal United (JDU) MLA Dadan Pehalwan made a controversial statement, saying that Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and his family has ruined the future of Aishwarya and has[Read More…]
Dhar (Madhya Pradesh): While addressing a rally in the district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed Congress Party for “questioning the ability of brave forces”. In particular, he targeted Congress leader Digvijay Singh. He said that said that the response to the Pulwama terror attack was given by IAF by entering[Read More…]
Minutes after Congress Delhi Pradesh Congress chief Shiela Dixit said that there would be no pre-poll tie-up in Delhi between AAP and Congress, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said, “At a time when the whole country wants to defeat Modi- Shah duo, Cong is helping BJP by splitting anti-BJP[Read More…]