Patna: The newly formed NDA government in Bihar on Monday won the trust vote in the state assembly, amid a walkout by members of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’. In the 243-strong assembly, a total of 129 members voted in favour of the motion of confidence. Deputy Speaker Maheshwar Hazari was in the Chair when the voting took […]
Patna: Former Bihar deputy chief minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday challenged Nitish Kumar during the debate on trust vote that “his nephew will stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar”. “We think of you (CM Nitish Kumar) as a member of our family. We are from the Samajwadi family…Jo aap jhanda le […]
Guwahati: More than 1.59 lakh people have been declared as ‘foreigners’ in Assam so far, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. He said that another 96,000 have been marked as ‘Doubtful’ (D) voters. Sarma, who also holds the Home portfolio, said 100 Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs), which deal with the citizenship issue of D-voters […]
Mumbai: In a major setback for the Congress in Maharashtra ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan resigned from the party on Monday. The senior leader of the Congress, through a letter to the party’s Maharashtra unit chief Nana Patole, announced his resignation from the party’s primary membership. Besides this, […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government is working for the welfare of tribals, while the opposition Congress remembers villages, poor people and farmers only during elections. He was addressing a public meeting of tribal community members in Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua district. This is PM Modi’s first visit to the state […]
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge Sunday hit out at the Modi government, accusing it of “destroying” ‘kisan’ and ‘jawan’ in the 10 years of its regime. Extending his party’s support to farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ call, Kharge claimed that the central government has not issued any notification on repealing the three farm laws yet. In […]
Mysuru: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi with securing respect for India’s cultural heritage on the world stage, citing the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya and the promotion of other key pilgrimage centres as examples. Speaking at ‘Sutturu Jathra’ (fair) event near here, he lauded Modi for […]
New Delhi: Ahead of farmers’ plan to head towards the national capital to stage protests, the Haryana government has sealed the state’s border with Punjab in Ambala and also ordered suspension of mobile Internet and bulk SMS services in seven districts, an official said on Sunday. To prevent any disturbance in the law and order […]
New Delhi: A total of 561 prisoners are on death row in the country, the highest at the end of a calendar year in two decades — a rise of 45.71 per cent in such inmates since 2015, a report revealed. The eighth edition of the ‘Death Penalty in India: Annual Statistics Report’ published by […]
New Delhi: Accusing the UPA government of mismanaging the price situation after taking charge from the Vajpayee government in 2004, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday mocked the grand old party, saying ‘gur ko gobar karna inki maastaree hai’. Replying to a short-duration discussion on the ‘White Paper on the Indian Economy’ in the Rajya […]