Congress leader Jairam Ramesh the Adani Group has repeatedly brushed aside questions about Vinod Adani, elder brother of the Group’s chairperson Gautam Adani, by claiming that he is uninvolved with decision-making but fresh disclosures show this to be a “laughable deception”. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Under the Hum Adani Ke Hain Kaun (HAHK) … Read more
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with party’s general secretary in-charge (Organisation) K.C. Venugopal and party leader Pawan Kumar Bansal during the 85th Plenary Session of the Indian National Congress, in Raipur on Friday, April 24, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said articulating the … Read more
Senior Congress leader and Congress Working Committee member Digvijay Singh along with party leader Jairam Ramesh during a press conference at Sadaqat Ashram in Patna, on November 13. | Photo Credit: PTI The Congress is set to launch a State-wide padayatra in Bihar from December 28 on the lines of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, senior party … Read more
The Congress on Thursday said that its ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, slated to begin on October 2, could start earlier and appealed to like-minded political parties and civil society groups to join the party’s march. This was announced at a press conference by party general secretary Jairam Ramesh and senior leader Digvijaya Singh after a meeting … Read more
Congress leader and Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal Wednesday demanded a GST Council meeting immediately for serious mid-term corrections on tax issues, saying the federal body has not met for six months now. In a letter to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, he said the GST Council has to meet to discuss key issues relating … Read more
NEW DELHI: Senior opposition leaders deplored the arrest of 22-yearold climate activist Disha Ravi and the non-bailable arrest warrant against lawyer Nikita Jacob in connection with the ‘toolkit case’ linked to the farmers’ agitation. Opposition parties accused the Modi government of resorting to extreme measures to quell dissent and silence voices of protest. Congress leader … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised the scientists and technicians for the two ‘Made in India’ Covid-19 vaccines approved by the government a day earlier. Meanwhile, the centre continued to lash out at the opposition for raising doubts over the vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. “The new year has brought with … Read more
The 2020 winners will share the prize money of Rs 15 lakh for their respective books and will each receive the Book Prize trophy. The jury of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation (NIF) Book Prize 2020 has for this year announced two joint winners—Amit Ahuja (for Mobilising the Marginalised: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements) … Read more
One cheerful fact that has come out of the Covid-19 lockdown has been the accounts of the environment becoming cleaner. This, and a growing awareness about air pollution, has made a larger number of Indians conscious of protecting the surroundings, say environment activists. However, the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification, 2020, released by the … Read more
New Delhi: The Union environment ministry has received nearly 1.8 million objections and suggestions on the draft Environment Impact Assessment 2020 notification, but it’s unlikely to go back on the ‘post facto’ clearance clauses unless there is a good legal rationale for the same. The ministry, though, is willing to reconsider the list of industries … Read more