“This (Women’s Reservation Bill) is not yours (Congress)… It is BJP’s Bill… you (Congress) are trying to play politics with this Bill alsom” BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said in the Lok Sabha on September 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI As the discussion on the Women’s Reservation Bill began in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, … Read more
Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V. Muraleedharan pays last respects to BJP leader P.P. Mukundan at RSS office in Kochi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: PTI If one considers the late Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) ideologue P. Parameswaran as a theoretician, then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader P.P. Mukundan, who passed … Read more
Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu accused the opposition party of playing petty politics surrounding the natural disaster faced by the hill State | file photo | Photo Credit: Sukhu Laxman Singh Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Wednesday, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu accused the opposition party of playing … Read more
BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao with SP president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in a meeting at Hyderabad on Monday. | Photo Credit: Arrangement Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav and president of Samajwadi Party (SP), one of the key constituents of the anti-BJP alliance taking shape ahead of … Read more
Little would anyone have thought that the impersonation row at Christian College, Kattakada in Thiruvananthapuram, in the third week of May would open a can of worms in the higher education sector in Kerala. College Principal G.J. Shyju had forwarded to the University of Kerala the name of Visakh A., a first-year student and Students … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar. File External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on May 26 described as “unfortunate” the decision by 20 Opposition parties to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building and said there should be a limit to doing politics. Editorial | Lost opportunity: On the acrimony over the inauguration of the new … Read more
Sanjay Nishad. File | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena The State and the national executives of the Nishad Party, an ally of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh, were dissolved on May 24, the party said in a statement. The party’s national president and Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Sanjay Nishad announced the move on the first … Read more
Karnataka Results 2023 | What it means for Congress, BJP and JD(S) The Congress has returned to power in Karnataka with an emphatic victory. Congress Legislative Party (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah took the oath of office as the 24th Chief Minister of Karnataka, along with Karnataka Pradesh Congress Comittee (KPCC) president D.K. Shivakumar, who was sworn … Read more
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann addressing the media at party office, in New Delhi on May 14. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on May 13 said that AAP’s win in the Jalandhar by-poll was an unprecedented … Read more
CNN — “We don’t need or want a secret police station in our great city,” said Breon Peace, the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York on Monday – expressing the likely feeling of many Americans at the news that the FBI has arrested two alleged agents for the Chinese government accused of … Read more