The Congress party on Friday asked the Kerala government to explain why service firm KPMG is being paid Rs 66 lakh to design a website of a state government organisation. The Congress had already expressed its reservation over the selection of the international company as consultant partner for rebuilding the[Read More…]
Lucknow, Sep 14 (IANS) Former Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) President Praveen Togadia on Friday accused the BJP of coming to power by promising a Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh but dumping the issue thereafter. Addressing a rally at the Janakpuri ground in Akbarpur, he said: “They always said that[Read More…]
Lalu Prasad Yadav’s eldest son and former Health Minister of Bihar, Tej Pratap Yadav may not be as active and a sharp politician as brother Tejashwi Yadav but is certainly a hope in disguise. The multitasker has been in news for not just for his divergent character but also for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday appointed nine new AICC secretaries. In a statement, party General Secretary Ashok Gehlot said: “Zenith Sangma has been appointed as secretary for Arunachal Pradesh, Amapareen Lyngdoh for Mizoram, Charles Pyngrope for Manipur, Victor Keishing for Meghalaya, Pradyut Bordoloi for Nagaland,[Read More…]
Hyderabad/New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Well-known Telugu film producer Bandla Ganesh and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLC Bhupati Reddy on Friday joined the Congress. They formally joined the party in the presence of Congress President Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi. Telangana state Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy and some senior leaders[Read More…]
Patna, Sep 14 (IANS) Bihar’s seasoned politician and Lok Sabha member Pappu Yadav says that jailed veteran politician Lalu Prasad has become irrelevant in politics and his main backer, the powerful Yadav youth, are desperately looking for a new face outside the Lalu family to lead them. “The era of Lalu’s[Read More…]
The Chief Election Commission on Thursday said that EVMs used for DUSU election were not supplied by them to the Delhi University. The commission stated that it “seems the university has procured these machines privately”. Earlier today, the Congress’ students’ wing National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) whose candidates for[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) A survey of over 19,000 people across the country revealed that most Indians blame politicians for misleading the people. The survey conducted by Ipsos said that 56 per cent respondents “blame politicians for misleading people, 47 per cent believed that it is the media that is[Read More…]
Amid reports that the RSS is planning to invite Congress President Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders to its meeting, MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said those accepting the invite will be inviting destruction. The Hyderabad MP ruled out accepting the RSS invitation, saying he would never do the[Read More…]
Lucknow, Sep 13 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Congress on Thursday accused BJP supporters of vandalising statues of former Prime Ministers from the Congress across the state. Congress state unit Spokesman Onkarnath Singh said that Bharatiya Janata Party workers had tried to deface a statue of former Prime Minister[Read More…]
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Thursday said the All-Party Meeting that was held in Srinagar demanded that Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta be kept away from the Article 35-A proceedings in the Supreme Court. Omar Abdullah said the parties at the meeting made the demand[Read More…]
In a press release published on September 13, by Anoop George Chaudhari from the AICC legal cell, it was clarified that Rahul Gandhi’s Congress party has curiously distanced itself from its own most vocal supporter and former media cell leader Tehseen Poonawalla, and has nothing to do with the PIL filed[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) The BJP on Thursday alleged that the UPA government gave “sweet deals” to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, while claiming that Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s family “partially owned the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines through proxy”. “There are documents that show how the RBI and UPA under Sonia Gandhi[Read More…]
Hours after fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya said he met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley before leaving the country, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday demanded Jaitley’s resignation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should order an “independent probe” into the matter, he said. “Given Vijay Mallya’s extremely serious allegations in London, the PM[Read More…]
New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS) As fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya on Wednesday said he had met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley before leaving the country, the Congress took a dig at him dubbing him as “fiscal mismanagement blog minister” and demanded a detailed response and disclosure from the government and inquiry into[Read More…]
Former Janata Dal-United leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sharad Yadav is likely to tip the scale in the disqualification case that the Delhi High Court is hearing. Yadav had registered a case with the Delhi High Court after he was debarred from JDU for making an announcement of his own[Read More…]
As BJP leader Smriti Irani attacked Congress President Rahul Gandhi, the party said she was trying to find “lost political relevance” as she had become quite irrelevant, as it noted that BJP was seeking ‘personal vendetta’ against the party leadership in the Income tax case. Accusing the Gandhi family of consistently dedicating itself to only[Read More…]
Congress minority cell chief Nadeem Javed said he was allegedly attacked by unidentified persons here on Tuesday. Speaking with Newsd he said, “I was being followed by some unknown people at India Islamic cultural centre. I was having lunch with my friends and when I came out these unknown people[Read More…]
With Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan set for assembly elections later this year, all political parties are gearing up for elections and campaigns. While the fight is likely to be between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, one Adivasi youth organisation is trying to disrupt their election equation[Read More…]
Hyderabad: BJP national president Amit Shah would blow election conch and campaign in Telangana State from September 15, said State party president Dr K Laxman. Laxman, who is here participating in the national executive meeting told the media that Amit Shah would kick start election campaigning from Mahbubnagar on September[Read More…]
Congress on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence on the rise in fuel prices and fall in the value of rupee as it asked why it was bothered about “grand alliance” of the opposition parties more than anything else. Terming the Modi government’s excuse of rising fuel prices, which was[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday joined the nationwide shutdown protest called by the Congress saying they were against the fuel price rise but not supporting the Congress party. AAP Leaders, MPs, and MLAs joined the Bharat Bandh called by the Congress and Left and joined a protest march of opposition parties here on Monday. “The AAP is of the clear view that[Read More…]
While the country fights for increasing petrol and diesel prices under Modi governance, a minister in Vasundhara Raje‘s cabinet has laid the blame for the crisis on the citizens themselves. Rrajkumar Rinwa, a BJP worker from Rajasthan proposes to the citizens to cut own their fuel consumption in order to[Read More…]
Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad termed the Bharat Bandh, which derailed normal life in over 8 states and ended up in the death of a two-year-old in Patna, a failure. Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Prasad, in a very matter-of-fact manner said, “Bharat Bandh was a failure and we[Read More…]
Sharing new ‘Super 30’ posters on the eve of Teachers Day last week might have been a successful promotion campaign for Hrithik Roshan, however, the netizens always find their way crawling to the world of memes for every new event happening in the country. After Anushka Sharma’s ‘Sui Dhaga’ memes,[Read More…]