On Thursday, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee visited the PMO. As she met PM Modi, she discussed development issues but didn’t have any talks regarding the upcoming Presidential election, said Banerjee. Talking about her meeting with Modi, Banerjee said she raised the issue of funds for to her state under[Read More…]
We have seen it time and again that our political leaders are quite fond of denigrating each other. This is true for almost all the leaders and our Prime Minister has also been at the receiving end of it despite his huge fan-following. In the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections[Read More…]
ED arrests CA Rajesh aggarwal in case of alleged accommodation entries to companies linked with Lalu Yadav’s daughter Misha Bharti. More to follow…
Even though the political parties declared the candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls for 10 seats in West Bengal, Gujarat, and Goa, the Election Commission has postponed the polls. The election was supposed to take place June 9. No new dates were declared now. Out of 10 seats, six[Read More…]
Amid speculations that superstar Rajinikanth is ready to join politics, Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping, Nitin Gadkari sends out an open invitation to the actor. The BJP has already thought of an ‘appropriate position’ for the megastar, said Gadkari while speaking to CNN-News18. Significantly, Gadkari shares a ‘good[Read More…]
Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha supported RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday. “Enough of negative politics and mudslinging by opponents on our political leaders, be it Kejriwal, Lalu (Prasad) Yadav or Sushil Modi,” Sinha tweeted. Favoring Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Kejriwal, Sinha said, “Individually[Read More…]
On Saturday, the Election Commission (EC) held a demonstrator of voting machines to prove that they cannot be tampered with. This comes in the backdrop of the all-party meeting which was held last Friday with the EC to debate the upcoming ‘EVM hackathon’ after allegations that the voting machines were[Read More…]
On Friday, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee asked her party leaders and elected representatives to be prepared for “any situation” in the days to come in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha State Assembly polls. As Banerjee held extended core meeting with TMC MPs and MLAs, she chalked out the party’s line[Read More…]
As the Modi government is to finish its third year in office on 26 May, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, his Deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti among other prominent leaders and MPs will visit Bihar to showcase the achievements of the Narendra Modi government in the past[Read More…]
BJP councillor Kamaljeet Sehrawat, who had recently won the civic polls was elected unchallenged as the mayor of South Delhi as the new team of the area’s civic body also took charge on Friday. Sehrawat represents the Dwarka-B ward. Sehrawat defeated AAP’s Sushma Bansal in Dwarka-B ward by a record[Read More…]
Former coal secretary H C Gupta has been convicted in a coal scam case. A special court in Delhi has convicted him in the case on Friday. The court also convicted the then joint secretary K S Kropha, then director K C Samaria in the coal ministry and others in[Read More…]
Sacked Aam Aadmi Party leader Kapil Mishra who has been in news for slamming corruption charges against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal claims to expose ‘big truth’ on Friday. As he took to twitter to articulate, he said he will produce the ‘evidence’ relating to this issue at the press conference.[Read More…]
The Delhi HC told the AAP government on Thursday that, in a democracy, there cannot be pre-censorship. Responding to the policy on display of an advertisement on auto-rickshaws a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and Pratibha M Singh said, “In a democracy, it (pre-censorship) should not be done. What[Read More…]
Just when the Union Textile Affairs Minister Smriti Irani and the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh Government was trying to shut down the Jais vocational centre, the High Court of Allahabad (Lucknow Bench), on Thursday passed interim orders that will allow the Vocational Training Centre in Amethi, to continue its activities. The[Read More…]
UP minister Suresh Kumar Khanna said at the state assembly on Thursday that the decreased Karnataka-cadre IAS officer was on the verge of exposing scams worth thousands of crores. He further claimed that the scam was related to the Congress-led government in Karnataka. This response came amid allegations from opposition[Read More…]
Former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Prabhunath Singh along with two others, were convicted by a court in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh on Thursday. They have been convicted in the link with a 22-year-old MLA Ashok Singh’s murder case. All the convicts were sent to jail. The court said it will declare[Read More…]
Union Science & Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan to hold additional charge of Environment Ministry, following the death of Anil Dave. Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave passed away early morning on Thursday. He was 60 years old. Union Science & Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan to hold additional charge of Environment Ministry,[Read More…]
Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar to contest presidential polls scheduled for July as a united Opposition candidate. However, the 76-year old Maratha leader politely refused the offer. “Pawar Saheb declined the offer and conveyed that he will support any Opposition candidate other than[Read More…]
On Wednesday, a city civil court awarded a 7 day anticipatory bail to former Karnataka CM and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) lawmaker H.D. Kumaraswamy. He is allegedly involved in a mining scam in which a serving IAS officer was arrested on Monday. Kumaraswamy, who was the JD-S Chief Minister in 2006-07,[Read More…]
Seven years after arrest, Chelsea Manning walked out of a U.S. military prison on Wednesday. She was arrested for passing secrets to WikiLeaks in the largest breach of detailed data in U.S. history. Manning who is 29, was released from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at about[Read More…]
In a progressive move and setting an example for many, former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, who is serving a 10-year jail term, has passed his higher secondary examination with first division at the age of 82. The veteran leader is now planning to pursue an undergraduate course. He[Read More…]
On Tuesday, the Congress party began a campaign to “expose” the performance of the Narendra Modi government, on completion of its three years in power. The party claimed that it had achieved nothing but failure on all the fronts, including national security. Senior party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia was heard saying[Read More…]
West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee met Congress President Sonia Gandhi on late Tuesday night with a purpose to field a joint candidate for the upcoming Presidential poll. The 40-minute long meeting also saw the presence of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi. “We want the entire Opposition to get together and[Read More…]
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that it is no longer safe to deal with excessive cash and its evasion, while launching “Operation Clean Money”on Tuesday. Jaitley also stated that personal income tax filing has gone up after demonetisation and as many as 91 lakh people have come under the[Read More…]
In response to the allegations against him, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav has slammed BJP in a series of tweets. After the Income Tax raided 22 locations in Delhi NCR in relation to the Benami land deal case, Lalu alleged that the government is targeting him as he constantly keeps[Read More…]