M Venkaiah Naidu will take oath on Friday as India’s 13th Vice President. Nominated by the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, he won the Vice Presidential election last week. The swearing-in ceremony will take place in the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan at 10 am. Before the formal function, Naidu, 68, will[Read More…]
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has some really strict advice for his party lawmakers after BJP chief, Amit Shah has made it to the Rajya Sabha. “Now Amit Shah is here, all your leisure days are over,” said PM while addressing MPs during BJP parliamentary party meeting in Delhi on Thursday.[Read More…]
Just a day before assuming office, Vice-president elect M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday has said that people were trying to use minority issues for political gains. “Indian ethos is of mutual respect for each other. People try to use minority issues for political purposes,” he said. The former union minister[Read More…]
Openly defying against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, JD(U) leader and former party president, Sharad Yadav on Thursday said that he was still with the Grand Alliance of the RJD and the Congress. Talking to the reporters in Patna, Sharad Yadav said, “I still stand with Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) that was[Read More…]
As outgoing Vice-President Hamid Ansari finishes his tenure, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday heaped lavish praises on Chairman Ansari. With Ansari leaving the office after a decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior members lauded him for upholding constitutional norms. Praising Vice President Ansari, Modi said the Chairman did[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janta Party chief, Amit Shah, asked the party workers to work towards achieving the target of winning 150 of the total 182 seats in Gujarat in the upcoming Assembly polls. He said, “Mission 150” would ensure that the BJP wins three Rajya Sabha seats in the state next[Read More…]
Deputy speaker of Lok Sabha and AIADMK leader M Thambidurai demanded that all languages must be called national and given an official status. On Wednesday, during a discussion to mark the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement in Lok Sabha, Thambidurai said people from all languages had fought for[Read More…]
In the latest development in Chandigarh stalking case, accused, Vikas Barala, son of Haryana BJP chief, Subhash Barala was arrested on Wednesday after being on run for a while. The two suspects were untraceable hours before the accused were required to show up at a police station on Wednesday. Police[Read More…]
In another jolt to Samajwadi Party, its MLC, Ashok Bajpai resigned from the Uttar Pradesh legislative council, citing infighting. He also claimed that infighting is responsible for the party’s ouster from the power. “I am deeply hurt the way Mulayam Singh Yadav was side-lined, and thus I am resigning. The[Read More…]
The Lok Sabha began its Wednesday session with a commemorative discussion on the 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement. The House was addressed by both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress president addressed Sonia Gandhi. The lower house is expected to introduce the National Sports University Bill, while it[Read More…]
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Wednesday has asked people to take a pledge to free country from problems such as communalism, casteism and corruption and create a ‘new India’ by 2022, on the occasion 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement. PM saluted all those who took part in the[Read More…]
Bihar minister, Vinod Kumar Singh on Tuesday triggered a controversy as he asked if people who hadn’t raised their arms while shouting “Bharat Mata ki Jai” were Pakistan supporters. His remark was hinted towards media persons present there. The minister for mines and geology was speaking during a Bharatiya Janata[Read More…]
Several women have taken to social media to post their selfies out at midnight with the hashtag #AintNoCinderella after a senior politician has questioned why a woman, who was reportedly stalked, was out at the night. In yet another instance of victim blaming, vice-president of Haryana BJP, Ramveer Bhatti, blamed[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated union minister, Smriti Irani and BJP chief, Amit Shah on being elected to Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. With the victory, Shah has made his maiden entry into the upper house. Polls for the Rajya Sabha seat were held on Tuesday. “Congratulations to BJP[Read More…]
The Bhartiya Janata Party, MP from Ajmer and former union minister, Sanwar Lal Jat passed away in Delhi on Wednesday. Jat, who had been in the coma after he collapsed at a party meeting chaired by party national president, Amit Shah in Jaipur on 22 July, was shifted to AIIMS[Read More…]
The Gujarat chief minister, Vijay Rupani has expressed disapproval over the Election Commission’s decision of disqualifying two rebels Congress MLAs over cross-voting on Wednesday. He said that in the coming days, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will move the court for justice. “Don’t agree with EC’s decision. In coming days[Read More…]
After a high-voltage drama, the Election Commission of India on Tuesday night has reportedly disqualified the votes of two rebel Congress MLAs, who had voted in favour of the BJP candidate. As per the rules, a legislator can’t show his ballot-paper to anyone, except his own party representative. The Congress[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader, Ahmed Patel on Tuesday late night has won his Rajya Sabha seat getting himself elected to the Upper House for the sixth time. This came after the Election Commission of India delivered a huge setback to the BJP by declaring the votes of two Congress MLAs, Bhola Bhai[Read More…]
RJD supremo, Lalu Prasad on Tuesday attacked Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar for walking out of the grand alliance government, saying the JD(U) leader has committed a “political suicide” by joining hands with the BJP. “No party in the country would any longer trust Nitish Kumar…he is politically finished now.[Read More…]
Minister of state for home, Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that the government has received no proposal to declare the cow as national animal. “No such proposal or demand has been received in the Ministry of Home Affairs,” Minister of state for home, Kiren Rijiju said in[Read More…]
Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday said that Ahmed Patel will win in the Rajya Sabha polls as he has the required numbers. “Out of our 44 MLAs we accept that one of them has cross-voted, but one of NCP and one of JD(U) has given us support,” he claimed.[Read More…]
The Congress party backed by TMC and JD(U), on Tuesday forced four adjournments of the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha over what it called as “biggest scam of this century” in the printing of two different kinds of 500 and 1000 rupee notes. Opposition Congress members thronged into the well[Read More…]
Responding to allegations by the Congress leaders that Rahul Gandhi could have been killed in Gujarat where stones were pelted on his car last week, Home Minister, Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that Congress vice-president had violated the security protocol during his visit. “Rahul Gandhi is under SPG protection. The[Read More…]
The government has deactivated or deleted nearly 11.4 lakh income tax permanent account numbers (PAN) as individuals were found to have more than one PAN. As per the law, an individual can have only one PAN. The government has over the years sought to get rid of duplicate PANs. Consequently,[Read More…]
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Monday accused the Chandigarh Police of doing a “somersault” on a case involving the Haryana BJP chief’s son, accused of stalking a woman, and said he would file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Punjab and Haryana High Court for a court-monitored CBI probe[Read More…]