Kolkata: A BJP leader was hacked to death in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, with police putting the blame on unidentified criminals, but the party accused the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress of being responsible for the killing. The Trinamool has, however, denied the charge. Shaktipada Sardar, the secretary of[Read More…]
New Delhi: As Union minister, Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP turned up the heat on Modi government over the appointment of A.K. Goel as NGT chairman and demanded his removal by August 9, the Congress while welcoming his move said he can’t stay silent now as he has to do the[Read More…]
Jammu and Kashmir’s first woman chief minister describes her experience working with the coalition of BJP as ‘not easy’. She compared it with having a cup of poison. This was her first public meeting ever since she left chief minister position last month after BJP took away its support in[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that the due to the Rafale fighter jet deal, Indian taxpayers will have to pay the Prime Minister’s friend’s joint venture Rs 1 lakh crore over five decades to maintain the aircraft. Taking a dig, he said that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will[Read More…]
The Shiv Sena on Saturday sought to embarrass its Bharatiya Janata Party ruling ally by suggesting that Pankaja Munde, a minister in the Maharashtra cabinet, be unanimously anointed as Chief Minister for an hour to clear the Maratha quotas file. The Sena’s advice came after Women and Child Welfare Minister[Read More…]
Three students were beaten and arrested late Friday for showing black flags to BJP National President Amit Shah, during his visit to Allahabad. Protesters including two girl students and one boy raised blacks flags and slogans in front of BJP leader Amit Shah’s cavalcade. As per the reports, ‘unemployment’ was[Read More…]
Chennai: DMK President M.Karunanidhi (94) on Friday entered 50th year as the party chief even as he is fighting age related ailment at his home here. Karunanidhi in the process created a record of sorts to be at the helm of a party for such long period managing several ups[Read More…]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday accused the Modi government of cruelly neglecting both MGNREGA and Food Security Act, which he termed the cause of starvation deaths of three minor girls in the national capital. As long as there are children who tragically starve to death (Mansi,[Read More…]
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the GST has replaced the ‘Congress Legacy Tax’ — which was 31 per cent for most goods — with a ‘good and simple tax’, adding that the existing 28 per cent slab will be phased out following further improvement in revenue collections. It[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh Congress president and former Minister of Urban Development Kamal Nath has said that all the files of corruptions will be straightened out in public. He also proposed his intentions to set up an enquiry over the sand mining scandal if the Congress party is brought back to power while speaking[Read More…]
Hari Om Pandey, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttar Pradesh has made a discriminatory statement, blaming the Muslim community responsible for increasing cases on mob lynching in India. BJP leader Pandey said that it’s of grave concern that the Muslim population is increasing because “that’s the reason for growing incidents[Read More…]
Chhatarpur (Madhya Pradesh): On his second day of Jan Ashirwad Yatra on Thursday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan slipped from the stairs of a stage after addressing a rally in Chhatarpur and fell down. The Chief Minister, however, did not receive any injury. Chouhan reached Chhatarpur from Panna[Read More…]
Despite the fact that the sole MP from Ladakh belongs to Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress won the Shey-Thiksay seat in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), which runs the key district of Leh. The election which were held last month, went unnoticed by national media, but it is[Read More…]
An ironic yet piercing remark came by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey, slamming Congress chief Rahul Gandhi over his iconic hug to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the no-confidence motion in Parliament last week. Dubey said that he fears hugging Rahul Gandhi as his wife may give divorce thinking[Read More…]
Former Union Minister and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has once again called out for a divided Uttar Pradesh. He has repeatedly made a strong pitch to bifurcate the largest state of India. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India with 400 million people living across 2,43286 sq km.[Read More…]
Amid incidents of mob-lynching on the rise, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA M Lobo stood in the Goa Assembly speaking over beef shortage and cow vigilantes being responsible for the same. He said that the BJP-led coalition government failed the beef-eating population in Goa, and that cow vigilantes were not dealt[Read More…]
Gandhinagar: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appointed Ashwin Kotwal the party’s new chief whip in the Gujarat assembly. A three-term legislator from Khedbrahma, Kotwal was made the deputy whip under Amit Chavda after the December 2017 assembly elections when the party bagged a significant 77 seats. With Chavda given[Read More…]
Union Minister of State for HRD, Upendra Kushwaha has demanded to change the Chief Minister face in Bihar for 2019 assembly elections. According to reports, he doesn’t want Nitish Kumar to continue to be the Chief Ministerial candidate of the state. Heating up the politics in Bihar, the Rashtriya Lok[Read More…]
Claiming that Railways was used for political reasons earlier, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday slammed the previous governments for not being able to bring the Bullet Train. Earlier, Railways was used for political reasons. So many schemes were announced, but there was scarcity of budget to work on all[Read More…]
BJP’s magic stick didn’t seem to work in Madhya Pradesh’s Pachmarhi as the party managed to secure only one seat in the council election. Congress, on the other hand, won six seats out of total seven seats on Sunday. During the previous elections in Pachmarhi BJP had secured five out[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Amid reports suggesting that the Congress could go in for an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) at the national level, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday made it clear that the party did not need an alliance to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the[Read More…]
RJD leader and leader of opposition in Bihar, Tejashwi Yadav has tweeted that the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the deputy CM Sushil Modi is reluctant for any CBI enquiry in the recent heart wrenching mass rape case in Muzaffarpur’s shelter home. Congress and Rashtriya Janata Dal MPs also put[Read More…]
New Delhi: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader and former Union Minister Y.S. Chowdary on Tuesday accused its former ally BJP of violating the principles of friendship and political morality and trying to expand in Andhra Pradesh at the expense of his party. Initiating a short duration discussion on Andhra Pradesh[Read More…]
Panaji: A Goa BJP spokesperson on Monday called Congress President Rahul Gandhi a loafer for winking in Parliament, a day after the state Congress chief called Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar a kathputli (puppet) for bowing to unreasonable demands of ruling coalition allies in the coastal state. Rahul Gandhi, who does[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will hear Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs plea challenging an Election Commission order in the office-of-profit case on Tuesday. The AAP legislators have challenged the Election Commission’s July 17 order rejecting their pleas seeking to cross-examine the complainant and advocate Prashant Patel. On March[Read More…]