Banwarilal Purohit sworn in as the 25th Governor of Tamil Nadu on Friday at Raj Bhavan in presence of Chief Minister K Palaniswami, his cabinet colleagues, and DMK working president and leader of opposition in the assembly, MK Stalin. Chief Justice of Madras High Court, justice Indira Banerjee administered the[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has voiced his concerns over the growing problem of alcoholism and said, the society will be “ruined” in the next 25 years if the nuisance was not checked. PM Modi was addressing people linked with Umiya Sansthan, a socio-religious organisation in Haridwar through video conference. He[Read More…]
The Election Commission of India has confirmed that by the end of 2018, it will be ready to hold Parliament and Assembly elections simultaneously. The Centre had earlier sought ECI’s views on conducting simultaneous polls. The Election Commissioner of India, Om Prakash Rawat said that the ECI had told the[Read More…]
Samajwadi Party(SP) chief, Akhilesh Yadav, has been re-elected as the party president for the next five years. The decision was taken at the party’s national convention at Agra on Thursday. The party will now fight the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections under Akhilesh’s presidentship. The former[Read More…]
Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi said his party would revive the economic growth within six months if elected to power in a scathing attack against the Centre. Gandhi, who is in his home constituency Amethi, blamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘anti-people’ policies that have led to the slowdown of GDP. He[Read More…]
Amid slamming and criticism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that his government is committed to bringing back the economy on track, defending demonetisation drive and implementation of Goods and Service Tax (GST). He admitted that the growth rate has reduced, but assured the government is doing everything to revive[Read More…]
Congress leaders on Wednesday said that the BJP must shun violence themselves in order to make sure that people are not killed in Kerala or any other state. Reacting to BJP Chief Amit Shah’s claims that Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is directly responsible for killing of party and Rashtriya[Read More…]
Former union minister, Arun Shourie has likened demonetisation with suicide and slammed Narendra Modi government over sliding economic growth and increasing job losses. He also called the Modi government as “government of two-and-a-half persons”. “This is a government by ‘ilhaam’ (revelation). The Prime Minister has the ‘ilhaam’ one night that[Read More…]
Just ahead of the Assembly polls in Gujarat, a video of BJP President Amit Shah along with chief minister, Vijay Rupani, BJP Gujarat President Jeetu Bhai Vaghani and Deputy CM and only Patel leader in the cabinet, Nitin Patel from Gujarat has surfaced and making noises. In the video, the[Read More…]
Congress on Friday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as synonyms of economic mismanagement. Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said, “The truth is people are tired of Modinomics and Jaitleynomics, because they have wrecked India’s economy. Now the economic mismanagement has become synonymous with Prime Minister[Read More…]
Indian Railways is working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop safety mechanisms to make travel by trains’ safer, union minister, Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. The minister said that he met ISRO chairman AS Kiran Kumar a few days back. Indian Railways along with RailTel are functioning[Read More…]
Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha hit back at union finance minister Arun Jaitley’s “job seeker at 80” remark saying the former wouldn’t have a job if that were true. “If I were a job applicant, he (Arun Jaitley) would not be there in the first place,” Sinha said. Jaitley had[Read More…]
The Patidar community leaders seem to have rejected the olive branch extended by the state govt on Wednesday. “The decision by the state govt to withdraw political cases against us is a clear admission that these cases were fake and hurled at us just to weaken the movement. Withdrawing these[Read More…]
The BJP’s senior leader Yashwant Sinha hit the BJP-led government once again on Thursday by evidently absolving the previous Congress-led UPA government for a slowdown in growth. Recently, he ignited a political firestorm with a column criticising the government’s economic policy. “The economy is in decline. We can’t blame the[Read More…]
Gujarat is all set to go to polls in next few months, thus, political leaders are putting all effort to set their number game right. Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his home constituency; Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi finished his three-day tour to the state on Wednesday. Rahul[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh is considering giving free mobile phones to around 55 lakh people within two-and-a-half-years under the Chhattisgarh Communication Revolution Scheme (SKY), the highest priority of CM. A plan of Rs 230 crore has been prepared to achieve this initiative. Around 50.80 lakh beneficiaries will be distributed[Read More…]
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) member, Sanjeev Moily, on Wednesday urged the party High Command to appoint Mallikarjun Kharge as the president of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). In a letter to Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, Moily said, “If party is considering a change in the leadership, then Mallikarjun Kharge (Leader[Read More…]
Gujarat chief minister, Vijay Rupani, said that the Congress party has no “credible” local leaders so it is relying on party vice-president, Rahul Gandhi, for campaigning for the upcoming assembly elections. He also posed a series of questions to the Congress scion, who is currently touring the state, where assembly[Read More…]
Jyotiraditya Scindia will lead the Congress party in Madhya Pradesh polls next year, said senior party leader Kamal Nath in Guna, the Lok Sabha constituency of Scindia on Wednesday. “There was no opposition to the name of Scindia as the leader of the party in the state,” Zee News quoted[Read More…]
The overwhelming response received by Rahul Gandhi among the Patidars in Gujarat has got the state government re-think its strategy. Sources say that the Patidar movement leader Hardik Patel could meet Congress Vice President at Rajkot on Wednesday. Possibilities of an open alignment of Patidars with Congress has sent the[Read More…]
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi hit the campaign trail in the Patidar-dominated areas of poll-bound Gujarat with an eye on the support of the influential Patel community. He urged NSUI members, the student wing of the party to work hard to bring the party to power in the state. Taking a[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi wished his predecessor Manmohan Singh on his birthday praying for his long life on Tuesday. “Warm birthday wishes to our former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. May he lead a long life filled with good health,” Modi tweeted. Warm birthday wishes to our former Prime Minister, Dr.[Read More…]
Army chief General Bipin Rawat warned that surgical strikes in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) can occur again if the neighboring nation “does not behave”. He said that the surgical strikes last year were meant to send a message to Pakistan. “Surgical strikes were a message that we wanted to communicate, and[Read More…]
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will interact with dairy farmers, businessman, and entrepreneurs of Gujarat on the second day of his three-day state visit to Gujarat. Gandhi will start his day at 10:15 am with a meeting with workers and supporters at Rampur Patia in Jamnagar district. He will then hold[Read More…]
The situation in Banaras Hindu University is still tensed that led the administration to order a closure of the university till October 5. Three additional city magistrates and two cops were removed on Monday in link with the lathi-charge on students. A high-level probe was also ordered into the violence[Read More…]