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…]
Rajya Sabha MP and one of the founding members of the Trinamool Congress, Mukul Roy, finally announced his separation from the party. Roy has resigned from the working committee and said he will quit Rajya Sabha and primary membership after Durga Puja. “I was the one who was the first[Read More…]
Former Samajwadi Party chief, Mulayam Singh Yadav, on Monday dismissed reports of forming a new party as of now. Prior to his press conference, there was speculation that he may float a new party. However, no such announcement was made by him. Addressing the media in Lucknow, “I am not[Read More…]
The police have filed FIR against 1200 students, hours after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered a probe into violence inside the prominent Banaras Hindu University (BHU) campus. Over a dozen students were detained on Sunday after their protest turned violent. Police used force to dislodge them. Soon, a[Read More…]
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will start his three-day campaign in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region on Monday. At first, he will offer prayers at Dwarkadhish Temple in Dwarka. After visiting the temple, he will hit the road for a tour as part of the party’s election campaign in the state. Gandhi will interact with farmers, supporters, and[Read More…]
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy called the Chidambaram family ‘a family of crooks’ on Saturday. He said that both Karti and his father P Chidambaram belong to Tihar Jail. “He (Karti) is a crook. He has no proper education, no occupation, how does he have so much wealth?[Read More…]
Deity Durga was the defence minister and goddess Laxmi, the finance minister, said India’s Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu while advocating the empowerment of women, on Friday. Naidu made the reference to the goddesses while addressing the Indian School of Business (ISB) leadership summit in Mohali. Naidu also told students to be[Read More…]
In a bid to get the Women’s Reservation Bill passed in Lok Sabha, Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In her letter, she urged PM Modi to use the majority of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the lower house of Parliament[Read More…]
Union finance minister, Arun Jaitley, on Thursday said corruption does not exist in the Centre anymore, while applauding its proactiveness in implementing the GST, crackdown on excessive cash transactions, benami property, shell companies and so on. “Corruption in the central government has become a thing of the past. This is[Read More…]
BJP president, Amit Shah, on Wednesday slammed Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi for his ‘Dynasty’ remark in his speech at UC Berkeley. The BJP chief said that dynasty rule is not prevalent in India but in the Congress, and asked him to present the report card of his last three generations[Read More…]
Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi, on Wednesday called on NRIs to join hands with the old party in New York. Addressing a gathering at Times Square, Gandhi said, “You (NRIs) have tremendous knowledge and understanding so you need to involve. I want to invite you to work with Congress to discuss[Read More…]