Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar in New Delhi on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) dubbed the Tamil Nadu government “hypocrite”, accusing it of refusing to implement National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as part of a political agenda … Read more
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] ‘s latest clarification note to its cadres on its month-old draft political resolution ahead of the party’s 24th national conference in Madurai in April has triggered a political row in Kerala. The note discusses the perils of the Central government’s “Hindutva corporate authoritarianism” evolving into neo-fascism if the … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya emphasized the importance of constitutional values in his Republic Day message. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Senior political leaders, including Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak of the ruling BJP, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati, extended their … Read more
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar addresses an event on the 15th National Voters’ Day, in New Delhi, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar requested political parties on Saturday (January 25, 2025) to avoid divisive campaigning, saying it can cause disillusionment among youngsters regarding the electoral process. … Read more
Remembering S.M. Krishna, a political giant Former Karnataka Chief Minister S.M. Krishna passed away at his residence early Tuesday (December 10, 2024) morning Ninety-two-year-old Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna (S.M. Krishna), who passed away on December 10, was a charismatic leader with a modern outlook, who created a niche for himself in the country’s political landscape with … Read more
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has termed the visit of Jagdambika Pal, Chairman of Joint Parliamentary Committee looking into the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, to Karnataka as a ‘political drama because of the elections’. Speaking to press persons in Hubballi on November 7, he … Read more
TTD former Chairman and ex-MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy addressing the media in Tirupati on Friday. MP M. Gurumoorthy, Mayor R. Sireesha Yadav and former Deputy Mayor B. Abhinay Reddy are seen. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Leaders of various political parties and spiritual organisations demanded that YSRCP president and former Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan … Read more
Political slugfest is intensifying over a WhatsApp screenshot with communal overtones that appeared on the eve of the recent Lok Sabha elections in the Vadakara segment. The screenshot of a message seeking votes for United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate Shafi Parambil, terming his Left Democratic Front (LDF) rival [K.K. Shailaja] a ‘kafir’, had led to … Read more
Yogendra Yadav, political analyst and national convener of Bharat Jodo Abhiyan, speaks at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran The 2024 Lok Sabha election result was a moral and political defeat for the Bharatiya Janata Party and a personal defeat for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Yogendra … Read more
Villupuram DEO C. Palani chairing a meeting of recognised political party representatives at the Villupuram Collectorate on Friday, June 14, 2024 | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Villupuram District Election Officer and Collector C. Palani on Friday, June 14, 2024, convened a meeting with representatives of various recognised political parties to brief them on the model … Read more