The District Congress Committee presidents in Tamil Nadu Congress Committee, who met with the TNCC president K.S. Alagiri to discuss preparations in the lead-up to the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, have reportedly pushed the State leadership to distribute Lok Sabha tickets to ‘new faces’ instead of those from ‘well-known Congress families’ here in Chennai … Read more
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, against whom the country’s six top wrestlers including Olympic medallists Bajranj Punia and Sakshi Malik had levelled allegations of sexual harassment, is ineligible to contest as he has completed 12 years as head of the federation — the maximum period allowed as per the National Sports Code. … Read more
In a tweet, Shashi Tharoor said, “As the Manipur violence persists, all right-thinking Indians must ask themselves what happened to the much-vaunted good governance we had been promised.” | Photo Credit: PTI Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on May 7 said the voters of Manipur are feeling “grossly betrayed” just a year after putting the … Read more
UNGA President Csaba Korosi. File photo President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Csaba Korosi will arrive in India on a three-day visit on Sunday, during which he is expected to discuss with his Indian interlocutors, ways to deal with various challenges facing the globe. It will be Mr. Korosi’s first bilateral visit to … Read more
July 13, 2021 A Haitian-born doctor, who was based in Florida for more than two decades, has been arrested as a central suspect in the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse, according to The New York Times. About two dozen people have been arrested as suspects, the newspaper reported, though police believe Christian … Read more
The Plurals Party chief Pushpam Priya Choudhary on Saturday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, seeking Bihar election 2020 be conducted under President’s rule and cited “threats, abuses” to the party candidates as reasons for the request. Pushpam Priya Choudhary (Picture Credits: twitter.com/pushpampc13) Pushpam Priya Choudhary, chief of The Plurals Party, has written to President … Read more