Nitish Kumar will take oath again as the chief minister of Bihar on Thursday at 5 pm after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) handed over to Bihar Governor, Keshari Nath Tripathi extending support for forming the next government. Kumar would be sworn-in as chief minister of Bihar for the sixth time.[Read More…]
Soon after Nitish Kumar announced his resignation as the chief minister of Bihar, his ally Lalu Yadav was clearly bitter at the shocking move. He questioned the JD(U) chief, “What did we do wrong?” The RJD chief spoke to the media soon after the resignation. Here are the highlights of[Read More…]
Soon after former Bihar CM Nitish Kumar resigned from his post, he was surrounded with comments and criticism alike. Nitish Kumar, after tendering his resignation, said that he had quit in the ‘interest of Bihar’. He said he never demanded anybody’s resignation but wanted Lalu and Tejashwi to come clean[Read More…]
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has issued a circular asking Ph.D. and MPhil students to enter titles of their research work in Hindi, as well. The administration is justifying this move by saying that it is aimed at tracking the review of theses and dissertations online. However, Assistant Registrar of[Read More…]
The Centre on Tuesday accepted the fact that crimes in the country have gone up by 41% after the NDA came to power in 2014. According to National Crime Record Bureau(NCRB ) report presented by MoS home affairs, Gangaram Ahir, crimes in the name of religion, race, place of birth[Read More…]
Lok Sabha speaker, Sumitra Mahajan on Wednesday gave a strict warning to members against using mobile phones inside the House after BJP member Anurag Thakur expressed regret for allegedly shooting opposition protests in the Well using his mobile two days ago. Some opposition members had complained about Thakur shooting video[Read More…]
Claiming that there is no rift within the Bihar mahagathbandhan, RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Wednesday said there is no question of his son Tejashwi Yadav stepping down as deputy chief minister. “Tejashwi Yadav will not resign, Nitish Kumar didn’t ask for his resignation,” said Lalu Prasad addressing the[Read More…]
Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar was the only non-NDA member who shared the front row seats along Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BJP leader L K Advani at President Kovind’s swearing-in ceremony. The Janata Dal (United) withdrew from the National Democratic Alliance[Read More…]
Union Minister of State HRD, Mahendra Nath Pandey on Tuesday evening said the Centre does not have any plans to delete Rabindranath Tagore’s writing and works of other renowned personalities from NCERT text books. Pandey echoed Union School Education and Literacy Ministry Secretary Anil Swarup, who had earlier in the[Read More…]
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader, Lalu Prasad Yadav seems to have initiated moves to form an alternative political platform with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and former Bihar chief minister, Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) amid doubts over the continuance of Bihar’s grand alliance government. Sources told Hindustan Times[Read More…]
Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee reacted on removing Rabindranath Tagore from the text book. She said, “How can somebody even think of removing Tagore from school books. This is rubbish.” The former head of RSS education wing Vidya Bharati, Dina Nath Batra wants the National Council of Educational[Read More…]
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has showered praise on President, Pranab Mukherjee saying, he never judged his government’s decisions or compared them to those made by previous governments. “I was surprised while working with Pranab Da for three years that despite having been a part of the government for so long[Read More…]
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspends six members for five days for throwing papers during Zero Hour on Monday. Along with Gaurav Gogoi and K Suresh, MK Raghavan, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary, Sushmita Dev also suspended by Mahajan. In the meantime, the Upper House of the Parliament is discussing a bill[Read More…]
Israeli PM’s remarks on PM Modi’s reason to skip Palestine in his recent visit to Israel were raised in the Rajya Sabha by the Congress on Monday. Anand Sharma of the Congress party gave a notice under rule 267 and sought suspension of listed activities of the house, saying that[Read More…]
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh, while addressing the media during the Ambedkar International Conference, has said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s name itself is an acronym that stands for ‘Murder of Democracy in India.’ “Narendra Modi loves acronyms. His name itself is an acronym that stands for ‘Murder of Democracy in[Read More…]
Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice- Chancellor, M Jagadesh Kumar on Sunday requested Union Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan and General V K Singh to help in procuring an Army tank that could be stationed at a prominent place on a university campus to serve as a constant reminder to students of the sacrifices made by Indian Army.[Read More…]
BJP on Saturday said that Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar is wasting his time in meeting Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi in wake of asking RJD’s Deputy chief minister, Tejaswi Yadav to resign. “Nitish Kumar is wasting time meeting Rahul Gandhi for reportedly asking Tejaswi Yadav to tender resignation,” said senior[Read More…]
The Andhra Pradesh government officials on Saturday said that at least 46 cows died of “pneumonia and starvation” in an overcrowded cattle protection centre in the last few days. According to the Godavari district officials, police registered a case against the management of the centre for alleged negligence that caused[Read More…]
In a fresh trouble for Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo, Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi can no longer access the Patna airport tarmac directly. Their ‘privilege’ has been scrapped by the Ministry of Civil Aviation, reported news agency ANI. Civil aviation minister, Ashok Gajapati on Saturday evening issued[Read More…]
Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar landed in Delhi on Saturday to attend a dinner hosted by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi for outgoing President Pranab Mukherjee. He is also supposed to meet Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. The conversation between Nitish Kumar and Rahul Gandhi comes at a time their coalition[Read More…]
Both Sanjay Kothari, chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board and senior journalist, Ashok Malik have been appointed as secretary and press secretary to new President-elect Ram Nath Kovind. Senior Gujarat-cadre forest service officer Bharat Lal will also join as joint secretary to Kovind, said an order issued today by the Department of Personnel[Read More…]
Akie Abe, the first lady of Japan and wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has spoken English many times in public, fluently, with only the slightest accent. However, last week at the G20 summit in Germany, when the opera performance ended, Trump says she was seated next to him for dinner[Read More…]
Former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah on Friday said that India should approach third parties, such as the United States and China, to mediate in the Kashmir issue and sustain peace. Abdullah said India has so many allies across the globe, which can be approached for settling the[Read More…]
Although Ram Nath Kovind, the ruling NDA’s candidate has won the presidential poll comfortably, his vote share is the lowest since 1974, show figures. Kovind got 2930 votes with a value of 7,02,044, while his competitor Meira Kumar, the joint opposition candidate, secured 1844 votes with a value of 3,67,314.[Read More…]
After resigning from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening, political corridors are now abuzz with speculations over BSP supremo, Mayawati’s next move. Mayawati is likely to contest the by-poll to the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, which will be vacated by sitting MP, Keshav Prasad Maurya, who is now deputy chief minister in[Read More…]