Tag: Politics
Mayawati says BJP will end reservation for Dalits
Demonetisation has affected normal life says Chidambaram
BJP government’s demonetisation scheme of scrapping high-value currency notes in order to solve the problem of black money in India had a critical impact on the majority of the population in the country, said former Union minister P Chidambaram. Addressing a discussion on ‘Demonetisation scheme’, he claimed that the ban on high-value currency[Read More…]
UP Polls: PM Modi to address rally in Aligarh
After the Dalit leader Mayawati addressed a rally in Meerut on Saturday just before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to address a public rally in Aligarh on Sunday. However, Bharatiya Janata Party is yet to announce its chief ministerial candidate. In his first rally before Uttar Pradesh[Read More…]
Jat quota protest extends to Delhi
AAP is giving platform to ‘Radical Sikh diaspora’ says KPS Gill
In an interview with The Indian Express, KPS Gill, who had a key but controversial role in ending terrorism in Punjab, said AAP may not be aware of what it is doing. Gill said, “Actually, I had predicted that because of the activities of certain political parties there will be[Read More…]
Spies arrested for passing info to Pakistani intelligence
The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of UP police arrested three persons from Punjabi Bagh as they were alleged ‘spies’ working from a coaching centre in Delhi. They are alleged of giving out information about the strength, deployments and movement of troops in the Valley to Pakistan and of having suspicious links[Read More…]
TMC MPs walk-out of Rajya Sabha
Varun Gandhi in BJP’s UP ‘star campaigners’ list
3 killed in a blast in Bhatinda at a Congress poll rally
Two persons and a minor girl were killed while 15 others injured in an explosion in a car at the site of an election meeting Tuesday in Bathinda district of Punjab. Police said a pressure cooker had been recovered from the site which had been cordoned off by BSF personnel. There[Read More…]
Iran has tested ballistic missile disregarding UN resolution: US
Iran conducted its first ballistic missile test under Donald Trump’s presidency, in yet another apparent violation of a United Nations resolution, U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday. The United States has said that it is studying details of an Iranian ballistic missile test. Press secretary Sean Spicer said he[Read More…]
Modi reaches out to oppositions prior Budget 2017
MLA Preneet Kaur says Kejriwal brought outsiders to show his strength
Congress leader and MLA Preneet Kaur today slammed both AAP and SAD as organisations for having radical ideologies. He claims that AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal brought outsiders for his rally in Patiala district. Preneet Kaur, who is campaigning for her husband Capt Amarinder Singh and other party candidates in[Read More…]
Amarinder Singh is the Congress’ CM Candidate in Punjab declared Rahul Gandhi
Putting a rest to the confusion about the Congress’ chief ministerial candidate in the poll-bound Punjab, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi announced on Friday that Captain Amarinder Singh would head the government if the Congress is voted to power. Addressing his first political rally in the Akali Dal assembly stronghold[Read More…]
Akhilesh denies tickets to 4 MLAs in new candidate list
The new list of Samajwadi party candidates for 12 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections was released on Thursday by CM Akhilesh Yadav. Surprisingly, Akhilesh has not given tickets to four sitting MLAs, three of whom were announced as candidates in the list Mulayam Singh Yadav had declared last month. The MLAs[Read More…]
Sharad Yadav refuses to apologise
Priyanka Gandhi shuts up Vinay Katiyar in style
BJP Leader Vinay Katiyar has made a patriarchal comment on Congress campaigner Priyanka Gandhi. He in his remark states that there have more beautiful female campaigners than Priyanka Gandhi, in the past. “There are several other beautiful women who can be a better star campaigner then Priyanka Gandhi. She’s not[Read More…]
69 percent of total income of political parties comes from unidentified sources
For more than a decade, about 69 per cent of the total income came from unknown sources, according to a report released on Tuesday by an NGO working towards electoral reforms. A recent report released on Tuesday has claimed that almost 69 per cent of the total income of political[Read More…]
Jallikattu to be held at Avaniapuram on February 5
Prakash Ambedkar dares government to disregard reservations
Prakash Ambedkar, who heads Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) on Sunday dared the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government to do away with the reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The grandson of architect of the Indian Constitution alleged that the BJP-led NDA government is trying to create class divisions in[Read More…]
Bihar to organize human chain to oppose alcohol ban
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…]
Jayalalithaa’s niece Deepa Jayakumar to enter politics
Deepa Jayakumar, late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s niece has decided to enter politics to accomplish her aunt’s dreams, on Tuesday. “I can’t see anyone in the place of Jayalalithaa. It was after talking to AIADMK cadre that I decided to enter politics,” said Deepa at a press conference[Read More…]
Remembering Amma: Jayalalithaa’s journey from acting to politics
Classical dancer, a popular actress and politician, Jayalalithaa Jayaraman has donned all the hats with utmost elan. Revered as Amma by her loyalists, she became the face of Tamil Nadu politics in the 21st century. Jayalalithaa was born on February 24, 1948, in Mysore. She began schooling at the Bishop[Read More…]
‘Kashmiris feel they’re used as tools for politics’
Dispel the perception that Kashmir and Kashmiris are “mere tools to be used for electoral purposes”, a group led by former Union minister Yashwant Sinha has recommended in a report days after visiting the trouble-torn Valley. “Kashmiris believe that today Indian politics has taken such a turn that there is[Read More…]
Belated criticism of NDTV India ban politically inspired says Naidu
Information and Broadcasting minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday attacked those criticising the one-day ban on NDTV India saying the ‘belated criticism’ is clearly ‘ill informed and politically inspired’ to create a controversy. He said people should know that the UPA Governments, during 2005-14, ordered several TV channels to go[Read More…]