Polling for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections began on May 20 across a total of 49 seats, including in high-profile constituencies of Amethi and Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh. Also Read: India General Elections 2024 Phase 5 LIVE updates The fate of five Union ministers, including Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, and Congress … Read more
A video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reportedly at a nightclub in Kathmandu triggered a war of words between the BJP and the Congress on Tuesday. BJP leaders who shared the video — an undated one showing Gandhi accompanied by a friend at a dimly lit nightclub, with loud music in the background — took … Read more
“Who will buy the sarees I make,” is a question that Haridas Basak (87) repeatedly asks as he works in a dimly lit room with a tin roof and no fan. Lockdown has been difficult on his family which comprises his wife, two sons, their wives and four children. All of them help out with … Read more
Former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who recently quit the TMC, will on Saturday fly with a few other disgruntled MLAs and leaders to New Delhi where they may join the BJP, sources in the saffron party said. Banerjee and MLAs Prabir Ghosal and Baishali Dalmiya, who was recently expelled from the TMC, and former … Read more
Smriti Irani is among BJP’s star campaigner for the Bihar Assembly Elections. (PTI file photo) Smriti Irani, the Union Minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet, on Wednesday announced that she had tested positive for Covid-19 infection. The minister, via a post on her official Twitter handle, requested anyone who has met her in recent times … Read more
NEW DELHI: Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said 150 million women from across the country have gained access to collateral-free loans under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana. The minister for women and child development and textiles also highlighted that employment opportunities have been generated for over six lakh women in the personal protective equipment … Read more
Minister for women and children and textiles, Smriti Irani, in an interview with ET, took on the Congress leadership for “not showing any remorse on the opposition’s treatment” of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman Harivansh Singh, and for urging Congress-ruled states to bypass the Centre’s bills on agriculture reforms. She said women issues are “not political … Read more
KOLKATA: Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday said that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up opportunities and the sector should commercialise this scope. She said that the textiles sector is always looking for subsidy but one should keep in mind that subsidy is taxpayers’ money. “There is a need to see opportunities and not wait … Read more