Tamil Nadu was on alert after Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening. “She is being treated and monitored by a team of experts including cardiologists, pulmonologists and critical care specialists,” reads a bulletin issued by the hospital. “She is on extracorporeal membrane heart assist device[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he is working on a formula on how to send the corrupt to jail, who deposited their money in Jan Dhan accounts of poor after demonetisation and ensure this money goes to the poor households. Responding to criticism over long queues outside banks[Read More…]
For the first time, the Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi chaired the Party’s parliamentary meet in the absence of Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi was in his form, took the position and addressed the CPP as Leader of CPP. Gandhi also thanked his mother Sonia Gandhi for her relentless[Read More…]
High drama unfolded on Thursday night after the “deployment of the army” at certain toll plazas in West Bengal. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee decided to stay put at the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ for the night seeking Army’s removal from the second Hooghly bridge toll plaza near Nabanna. Notably, even after the[Read More…]
CBI may go headless as incumbent Director Anil Sinha is due for retirement on Friday. Following the retirement of the incumbent director, speculations were rife that the second in command Rupak Datta, will succeed Sinha. But Datta, a 1982 batch IPS officer was appointed Special Secretary, Home Ministry. With appointment[Read More…]
IndiGo on Thursday said the plane carrying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was delayed due to congestion before making a normal landing on Wednesday and had adequate fuel. In a detailed statement, IndiGo said the flight 6E 342 with 174 passengers onboard made a “normal landing” at Kolkata airport[Read More…]
A day after Rahul Gandhi’s twitter handle put out offensive and homophobic comments , the official Twitter handle of Indian National Congress appeared to have been hacked on Thursday morning for a few minutes. A series of abusive tweets were sent out to its 1.8 million followers. Congress Party had[Read More…]
BJP has topped the list of political parties receiving donations from unknown sources between 2013 and 2015, data from the Association for Democratic Reforms has revealed. Section 29C of the Representation of People Act, 1951, mandates that all donations made to political parties by any individual or company in excess[Read More…]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday took Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal to task for “factually misrepresenting changes in the tax law” and asserted that there will still be a penalty of 200% for misreporting income under Section 270A of the Income Tax Act. Jaitley made this clarification on Twitter,[Read More…]
Former Bihar Chief Minister and senior RJD leader, Rabri Devi suggested Sushil Kumar Modi to ‘come and take away Nitish Kumar and get him married to his sister’. The retort came in reply to a question from a television news channel journalist about Sushil Kumar Modi’s recent ‘invitation’ to Kumar[Read More…]
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday addressed a massive rally in Lucknow against government’s demonetisation move. Asking people to give a fitting reply to the government in the UP election, Mamata said “respond to notebandi with vote bandi”. She also dared Modi to conduct a secret ballot among BJP[Read More…]
Asserting that hard cash in India would become obsolete in the near future, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that digital payments like e-wallet system and mobile banking would rule the roost which would immensely benefit the people. “In future, the proportion of hard currencies in India is[Read More…]
A wedding in union minister Mahesh Sharma’s family has seized the attention of Arvind Kejriwal, who tweeted on Monday questioning how he is paying for it after the currency ban. Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi: “BJP MP Mahesh Sharma’s daughter is getting married. Is the entire payment in cheque? Has he[Read More…]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday told Lok Sabha that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will speak on demonetisation if the Opposition wanted, but the rival parties demanding debate with a provision for voting remained unimpressed, forcing the House to adjourn for the second time. A number of opposition leaders,[Read More…]
Reacting to the government’s decision to demonetise ₹500 and ₹1000 currency notes, Bharat Ratna and Nobel laureate, Professor Amartya Sen, said that both, the idea and the way it was implemented, was akin to a “despotic action” and betrayed the “authoritarian nature of the government”. “Telling the public suddenly that[Read More…]
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on Saturday said the judiciary must recognise the ‘lakshman rekha’ and be ready for introspection, hours after Chief Justice of India TS Thakur and the Centre publicly differed over vacancies in judges’ posts. “Everyone, including judiciary, must recognise there is lakshman rekha and be ready for[Read More…]
In a bid to woo Punjab’s farmers ahead of Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said water that belongs to India cannot be allowed to go to Pakistan with reference to the Indus Water Treaty. “The fields of our farmers must have adequate water. Water that belongs to[Read More…]
The government on Thursday extended the suspension of toll collection on national highways till December 2 midnight. This is the third time the government has extended the suspension timeline. The government had first announced the toll suspension news early in November as a major relief to commuters after ₹500 and[Read More…]
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday accused the Opposition of making excuses to avoid a debate on the government’s decision to demonetise ₹ 500 and ₹1,000 notes, even as the Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day. The Upper House was adjourned after Opposition parties created an uproar demanding[Read More…]
Samajwadi Party leader Akshay Yadav was censured on Thursday after he threw bits of paper at Speaker Sumitra Mahajan as opposition parties continued their protests against the notes ban when the parliament convened. An angry Mahajan adjourned the house. Shortly after the Lok Sabha met for the day, opposition members[Read More…]
Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the currency ban decision of his successor Narendra Modi. He labelled the decision “a monumental management failure”. Dr Singh, a renowned economist, opened the debate in the Rajya Sabha on demonetisation on behalf of his party. Here’s[Read More…]
With the deadline for using old ₹500 and ₹1000 notes for utilities and railway reservation ending tonight, an increase in the chaos, which has been seen at various places for the last 15 days, is expected. However, if sources to believed, the government may give extension to the usage of[Read More…]
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called the demonetisation move as a ‘monumental management failure and a case of organised loot and legalised plunder’ by the Narendra Modi government. He remarked that demonetisation move would reduce the Gross Domestic Product growth of the country by 2 percent or more.[Read More…]
BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi by calling his survey on demonetisation as “fake and sponsored” and dared him to dissolve the Lok Sabha and face elections. “The survey of Modiji is fake and sponsored. If he has guts then he should dissolve the Lok Sabha[Read More…]
Chief Minister of West Bengal and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Benerjee on Wednesday led a protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi demanding a rollback of the policy of demonetisation from Prime Minister Modi, citing inconvenience caused to the general public. Now another TMC leader and West Bengal state power minister[Read More…]