The first black president for eight years, Barack Obama has said that if the US continues to be inclusive and diverse, it may send a woman, a Hindu, a Jew or a Latino to the White House. The retiring president also made it clear that he was not going away[Read More…]
As the protests against the ban on Jallikattu intensifies across Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, declared that his government would “take steps with the backing of the Centre” to hold the traditional bull-taming sport. While the state government sought an ordinance “to remove the[Read More…]
BJP government in Gujarat faces a new problem lately. Audio clips of random phone calls to ministers, from people seeking answers on what they considerytp be an integral agenda to them, are going viral on social media. And this has only added to the government’s discomfiture. BJP government image of[Read More…]
India set aside a discussion on the Kashmir issue saying that no third party had any role to play in resolving the dispute between the two countries in UK Parliament. MEA was aware of the development but added that all problems between India and Pakistan can only be resolved bilaterally.[Read More…]
The Congress party has been having contradictory stance on jallikattu. In May 2016, last year Congress wanted the bull-taming sport banned but today it doesn’t want it banned. As protests by Jallikattu supporters intensify across Tamil Nadu, the Congress said that people of Tamil Nadu have a right to preserve their culture and the bull-sport[Read More…]
Amidst the ongoing feud within the Uttar Pradesh’s first family, Samajwadi Party leader and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress party confirmed that they would announce the pre-poll alliance in the next 24 hours. According to sources, Akhilesh offered 103 seats to the grand old party. 20 candidates[Read More…]
On January 21, the Bihar will witness a government sponsored human chain promoting prohibition stretching across 11,000 km in the state. The Bihar government claims that this will be world’s largest human chain, a move that will be go down in the Guinness Book of World Records besides promoting alcohol[Read More…]
Chief Minister O Panneerselvam met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday and urged him to issue an ordinance for the conduct of the Jallikattu after Tamil Nadu erupted with huge protests over the ban on traditional sport by Supreme Court. PM Modi appreciated the cultural significance of[Read More…]
Days after controversy over calendars and diaries in which Mahatma Gandhi’s pictures were replaced with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) issued a notice to its employees on Wednesday. A letter was issued by the KVIC deputy chief executive officer handling administration and HR asking[Read More…]
The Central Information Commission (CIC) was recently informed that Union minister Smriti Irani had refrained Delhi University from disclosing information related to her degree, the School of Open Learning (SOL). The commission has now directed SOL to produce all documents related to Irani’s educational qualification as a show-cause notice was issued on January 10 to the[Read More…]
After reports emerged of the CBI launching an initial inquiry against AAP leader Manish Sisodia over a matter of financial irregularities, the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called him a ‘coward,’ in a series of tweets. “Modi ji, this is why I[Read More…]
An FIR was registered on Wednesday against BJP leader Sangeet Som and two others for violating the poll code by screening a documentary containing parts of his speech related to the Dadri lynching case and his arrest during the Muzaffarnagar riots. Sangeet Som, Virendra Kumar and Chandrshekhar Singh have been[Read More…]
Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday rued that the focus in schools is on completing the syllabus and not enhancing knowledge even as he claimed the AAP government’s education model is being “bought” by voters in poll-bound states of Punjab and Goa. “The biggest drawback in our education[Read More…]
Congress workers protested at Reserve Bank of India (RBI) offices at several locations across the country on Wednesday. The Congress party are executing their planned nationwide campaign against demonetization starting from Wednesday which included them gheraoing the RBI offices. This is expected to continue till the 23rd of January. Senior[Read More…]
A huge protest continues across Tamil Nadu on Wednesday with thousands of people joining in Madurai, Chennai, Salem and Coimbatore against the Jallikattu ban. The protests started in Madurai after Pongal festival spread to other parts of the state and police detained more than 200 protesters on Tuesday morning. More[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader and former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari and his son Rohit Shekhar have joined BJP in presence of party President Amit Shah on Wednesday. While the development came as a major boost to the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the crucial assembly election, it is a[Read More…]