The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a notice to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and others on a plea by the CBI challenging their discharge in an alleged corruption case involving three hydel power projects in the state. A bench of Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer also[Read More…]
Dubbing the Karnataka government “corrupt at all levels”, BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday said the state’s people are waiting to throw out the ruling Congress in the upcoming assembly elections, due in April. “The countdown for the exit of the Congress government headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has begun,[Read More…]
The BJP’s Madhya Pradesh unit is mulling action against party leader and former legislator Parashuram Mudral, who called Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan a “liar”, party sources said on Wednesday. Talking to a private TV news channel, Mudral said: “His (Chouhan’s) government never fulfils the promises it makes. As far[Read More…]
The CPI-M on Wednesday denounced the government decision to allow 100 per cent FDI through the automatic route in single brand retail trade, warning this will have “harmful consequences” for domestic retail traders and shopkeepers. Until now, Foreign Direct Investment up to 49 per cent was permitted under the automatic[Read More…]
The Congress on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the slowdown in GDP and said the government’s “gross economic mismanagement” decelerated India’s growth story. “(The) government’s gross economic mismanagement, which has decelerated the India story, speaks volumes. GDP growth slows to four year low,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala tweeted.[Read More…]
With Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia saying that Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s movie ‘Padmavat’ will not be released in her state, the Congress on Tuesday said there was a conflict between the central and state governments on the issue. “For us, the release of any film means it has been[Read More…]
With the CPI-M preparing for its state conference next month, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is all set to ensure there is no one to challenge him in the state and he has complete control over the party – and will be hoping his clout will give him a larger say[Read More…]
Aam Aadmi Party’s victorious Rajya Sabha candidate Sanjay Singh on Monday said that he along with N.D. Gupta and Sushil Gupta will be the voice of the people of Delhi who till now didn’t have a say in the “biggest temple of democracy” (upper house of the Parliament). The party[Read More…]
Highlighting how job creation in India is at an eight-year-low, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the two threats facing India under the Narendra Modi government are inability to create jobs and the rise in the forces of hatred and division. Addressing the Indian diaspora in Bahrain here, he[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday admitted that he also “made mistakes as he is also a human being” and promised to present a new party, whose focus will be to give a “new vision” to India. “You said Congress party accepted its mistake. I am admitting that I also[Read More…]
Independent MLA Hanuman Beliwal has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi while announcing that Rajasthan needed a new political party to provide an alternative to both the BJP and the Congress. Beliwal made the announcement at a huge rally of farmers here on Sunday. He said the youths had seen through[Read More…]
The BJP on Monday questioned the AAP government in Delhi over the deaths of 42 homeless people in the city this month, saying that if Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal would have taken an interest, their lives could have been saved. “At least 42 homeless people have died in the first[Read More…]
BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday said that it is certain that the Left Front would be ousted from power in the Tripura assembly elections in February and his party would come to power. “Today’s (Sunday) crowds have confirmed that the BJP government would certainly come to power in Tripura[Read More…]
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh faced an embarrassing situation on Saturday as quintals of potatoes were thrown by the farmers in front of the Vidhan Sabha building and outside Chief Minister’s residence. The VIP and high-security zone in front of the state assembly building was strewn with potatoes[Read More…]
The just-concluded winter session of the Rajya Sabha, the first session for new Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, saw a few “firsts” as part of reforms he brought in the proceedings in the upper House. On the very first day of the session on December 15, Naidu, who was elected as[Read More…]
For the third time since the Narendra Modi government’s assumption of office, the Dalits have come into conflict with the Hindutva brigade. The first time was in Una in Gujarat, where a group of Dalits were thrashed by saffron activists for skinning a cow, a traditional occupation of the “untouchables”.[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked the Centre for the economic slump in the country and described “GDP” as the “Gross Divisive Politics” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rahul Gandhi targeted both Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for the slowdown in investment, bank credit growth, job creation and[Read More…]
Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh, better known for its Mahakaleshwar temple, has turned into the centre of political activities these days, with both RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP president Amit Shah present there. While Bhagwat has been camping in Ujjain since December 30, Shah arrived in the city on[Read More…]
The Congress on Friday said that BJP was responsible for the “impasse in Rajya Sabha” due to which triple talaq bill could not be discussed, while alleging that BJP wanted to treat the Parliament as a “rubber stamp”. “They (BJP) are squarely responsible for this impasse in Rajya Sabha. For[Read More…]
RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Friday sought a lenient view of the special CBI court on quantum of sentence in a fodder scam case he was convicted in on December 23. The former Bihar Chief Minister and other convicts were produced through video conferencing before special Central Bureau of Investigation[Read More…]
Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday said that businessman Sushil Gupta, one of its Rajya Sabha candidates, will help the party expand and accomplish its “Mission Haryana”. AAP Delhi convenor Gopal Rai took up to Facebook Live to justify the party’s decision of electing the two outsiders —[Read More…]
After he was denied a Rajya Sabha nomination, disgruntled AAP leader Kumar Vishwas said he has been “punished” for speaking the truth. “For the last one-and-a-half years, be it the PAC (Political Affairs Committee) or my elder brother Arvind Kejriwal’s decision on issues like surgical strike, taking a soft stand[Read More…]
Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tuesday attacked the Congress for its “confused” stand on the Triple Talaq Bill and wanted to know why it was sad while the Muslim women were happy. “These days a number of reforms are being brought in. The Triple Talaq Bill is one of[Read More…]
The seeds of many positive changes were sown in 2017 and could bring news to cheer Indians in 2018. Here’s a look at four positives. The renewed fight against TB: The government, in March 2017, increased its focus on tuberculosis (TB) — a preventable, airborne infectious disease that killed 423,000[Read More…]
The Assam government has published the first draft of the much-awaited National Register of Citizens (NRC) which includes names of 1.9 crore people of total 3.29 crore applicants in the state, an official said. Registrar General of India (RGI), Sailesh said this while addressing a press conference at 11.45 p.m.[Read More…]