BJP’S STRATEGIC RE-CALIBRATION IN MAKING PANKAJ CHOUDHARY AS PARTY PRESIDENT IN U.P.
NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party’s decision to appoint Union minister of state for finance Pankaj Choudhary as the new BJP president of Uttar Pradesh is being widely read within political circles as a carefully calibrated signal to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and a marker of the central leadership’s long-term electoral and organisational plan for […]
SONIA TO SETTLE KARNATAKA LEADERSHIP TUSSLE ON SUNDAY
NEW DELHI: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar are set to meet senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on December 14, amid the continuing leadership tussle over the state’s top post, sources said on Saturday. The meeting is scheduled to take place immediately after the Congress’s mega rally at Ramlila […]
CONG RALLY IN DELHI’S RAMLILA GROUNDS TODAY ON “VOTE CHORI”
NEW DELHI: The Congress is organising a mega rally at the Ramlila Grounds here on December 14 on “vote chori” with party workers from across the country who started arriving in the national capital. Led by Lok Sabha Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, who focused on the vote chori by the BJP in states after states, […]
INDIA IMPORTANT PARTNER”: US LAWMAKERS’ BID TO END TRUMP TARIFFS
NEW DELHI: Three members of the US House of Representatives on Friday introduced a resolution aimed at terminating President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration that imposed tariffs of up to 50 per cent on imports from India, calling the measures “illegal” and harmful to American workers, consumers, and bilateral ties, says a Washington report. The […]
TRIBUTES TO MARTYRS WHO LAID LIFE TO PROTECT PARLIAMENT
NEW DELHI: India on Saturday solemnly commemorated the anniversary of the terrorist attack on Parliament in 2001, paying homage to the brave security personnel and employees who laid down their lives while protecting the nation’s supreme democratic institution of Parliament. Vice-President and Chairman, Rajya Sabha C P Radhakrishnan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers, leader […]
CENSUS-LINKED DELIMITATION SET TO REDRAW INDIA’S POLITICAL MAP
NEW DELHI: India is heading towards the biggest recalibration of political representation in five decades, as the Union Cabinet’s push to complete the digital population census within the next two years has reignited a fierce national debate. The move sets the stage for long-pending delimitation of Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, a process that experts […]
Mulk Raj Anand at 120: Champion of India’s Forgotten Lives
On this 120th birth anniversary of Mulk Raj Anand—born December 12, 1905, in Peshawar—his defiant credo endures: “Our tragic age demands poetry of courage and not whimpers about the inevitable end of all maya.” Far more than a pioneer of Indo-Anglian fiction or “India’s Charles Dickens,” Anand forged novels that elevated the sweeper, coolie, and […]
