New Delhi: Accusing the BJP-RSS leadership of “systematically destroying” the Constitution, the Congress on Sunday announced that its President Rahul Gandhi will launch a nationwide “Save the Constitution” campaign on April 23 from Delhi’s Talkatora stadium. “Rahul Gandhi ji will launch the campaign on April 23 at the Talkatora Stadium. Senior[Read More…]
Hyderabad: The CPI-M on Sunday re-elected Sitaram Yechury as its General Secretary. The Communist Party of India-Marxist also elected a 95-member Central Committee at its party Congress here.
Bengaluru: BJP’s Lok Sabha lawmaker from Karnataka’s Ballari, B. Sreeramulu on Saturday filed nomination to contest in the May 12 assembly elections from Molakamuru (reserved) seat in Chitradurga district. Sreeramulu, 47, filed the nomination in the presence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate[Read More…]
Patna: Senior BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who has been trenchant in his criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, on Saturday announced that he was snapping his links with the BJP and launching a countrywide campaign to save the democracy. “I am announcing[Read More…]
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced the immediate suspension of nuclear and missile tests, media reports said on Saturday. “From April 21, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Efe quoted Kim as saying. North Korea will also “shut down a nuclear test[Read More…]
New Delhi/Bengaluru: The BJP on Friday released the third list of 59 candidates for the May 12 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, including Karunakar Reddy, one of the Reddy brothers from Harapanahalli in Ballari district. With this, the BJP has announced 213 candidates. The party had, in its second list[Read More…]
Chandigarh: The decks have been cleared by the Congress high command for the induction of nine new cabinet ministers in the Amarinder Singh government in Punjab. The new ministers will be sworn in at the Raj Bhawan by Governor V.P. Singh Badnore on Saturday evening. The ministers are Sukhjinder Singh[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday filed his nomination to contest the ensuing state Legislative Assembly elections from Chamundeshwari constituency in Mysuru, an official said. “Siddaramaiah, along with his son Yathindra, visited the Chamundeshwari temple atop Chamundi Hills in Mysuru to pray to goddess Durga before filing his nomination,”[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up Jammu lawyers for obstructing the filing of charge sheet in the Kathua minor rape and murder case even as they claimed they were protesting on a different issue. “We are not concerned with anything, we are concerned with fair trial. You[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Wednesday attacked the government and the RBI over the acute cash crunch in the country and said the ghost of demonetization has come back to haunt them. He also needled the government on the recent bank scams, saying people appeared to have lost[Read More…]
Ranchi: A Special CBI court here on Wednesday handed jail terms ranging from three-and-a-half years to 14 years to 37 persons convicted in the fodder scam related to the fraudulent withdrawals from the Dumka treasury in the then undivided Bihar, an official said. These convicts have been ordered to pay fines[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik joined Odisha’s ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) here on Wednesday. He joined the party in presence of Chief Minister and BJD President Naveen Patnaik, who said he will be a “tremendous asset”. “I joined the party as the BJD worker. I was away from[Read More…]
New Delhi: The BJP on Wednesday appointed Rakesh Singh as the new President of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the party and finalised the name of Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to be the party’s new chief in Rajasthan. The changes in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s units come ahead of[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Congress President Ajay Maken on Wednesday attacked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP over the cancellation of the appointment of nine AAP advisers, saying the two parties were working together to make a dent in his party’s vote share in the Lok Sabha elections. “It was[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Tuesday reiterated that the NDA government would bring an ordinance if the Supreme Court does not allow reservation for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in promotion in the government jobs. The ordinance will revoke the apex court’s decade-old order that has[Read More…]
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has called RBI Governor Urjit Patel on May 17 to answer queries on banking frauds and the powers that the central bank needs for better regulation of public sector banks (PSBs). Sources said the decision was taken at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance,[Read More…]
Hyderabad: In a setback to the Telangana government, the Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday revoked the disqualification of two legislators of opposition Congress from the state Assembly. Justice B. Siva Sankara Rao set aside the expulsion of Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and S.A. Sampath Kumar and directed that their membership be restored.[Read More…]
Patna: Bihar Industry Minister Jai Kumar Singh on Tuesday demanded the formation of a “Swarn Aayog” (Commission for the Upper Castes) by the Centre to provide reservation to the poor among the upper castes in the country. Jai Kumar Singh, who belongs to the Rajput caste, is a ruling Janata Dal-United[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its second list of 82 candidates for elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly. The names were finalised by the party’s Central Election Committee headed by party President Amit Shah and has Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday declared 218 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections to be held on May 12 with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah contesting from Chamundeshwari constituency. Siddaramaiah returned to his old constituency in Mysuru, instead of neighbouring Varuna, from where he is the sitting MLA. The Indian National[Read More…]
Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi and Health Minister Mangal Pandey are among the three candidates whose names were announced for the Bihar Legislative Council polls by the ruling BJP on Sunday. Sanjay Paswan, a former Union Minister and Dalit face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar, is[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi BJP President Manoj Tiwari on Sunday accused the AAP and the Congress of trying to “defame” his party and alleged that they were disturbing the country’s social fabric. Addressing the media along with Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, Tiwari said: “The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress are[Read More…]
Bijapur (Chhattisgarh): Invoking Dalit icon Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar on his 127th birth anniversary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday sought to woo Dalits and tribals, saying he could become PM because of Ambedkar’s contributions to the society and exhorted Maoists to join the mainstream for development and assured that he would[Read More…]
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Friday demanded President’s rule in Uttar Pradesh and said this was necessary to restore the rule of law in the state. Addressing a press conference here, party leader Kironmoy Nanda said the time had come to bid the Yogi Adityanath government good bye. Referring to[Read More…]
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district. “Hon PM Sir, there isn’t a day when we don’t hear you speak about things that are important to you yet[Read More…]
