TAGORE STRESS ON FIRST TWO VERSES OF VANDE MATARM
NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee has decided that party programmes will feature only the first two verses of ‘Vande Mataram’. The decision follows criticism from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the singing of the national song at an Independence Day event and a later programme in Goa. The grand old party has cited […]
CONG CALL TO SCRAP SAMUDRA MANTHAN SCHEME, STRENGTHEN ONGC
NEW DELHI: Congress spokesman Shaktisinh Gohil on Monday called for scrapping recently announced Samudra Manthan scheme, the national offshore exploration scheme, to dole out Rs 84,084 crore to Adani and strengthening the public sector ONGC by diverting this money to it. He told a press conference here that whenever Prime Minister Modi announces a new […]
GANG-RAPE OF A 16-YEAR GIRL ON MOVING BUS IN NOIDA
NEW DELHI: Two men who allegedly gang-raped a 16-year-old girl on a moving bus in Greater Noida earlier this month have been arrested. The two had been working with a private firm, Vishwanath Travels, for over two years, an employee of the firm said. The Greater Noida incident, which has parallels with the December 2012 […]
KIREN RIJIJU WARNS PROTESTERS STEPPING ON NATIONAL FLAG IN NEW YORK
NEW DELHI: Union Minister Kiren Rijiju has given a strong warning to protesters and Khalistani supporters who put their feet on the Indian national flag and tore it outside New York’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday, when people had gathered there to hear RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s address. The Union minister in a post on […]
OBC FAULT LINE MAY SHAKE UP UP AND BJP
NEW DELHI: With Uttar Pradesh headed for assembly elections next year, a contest widely billed as the ‘semi-finale’ before the 2029 Lok Sabha battle, Rahul Gandhi has once again put OBC politics, caste census, and reservations at the centre of the Congress campaign. The timing is deliberate. Uttar Pradesh sends more MPs to Parliament than […]
DELHI’S DRAFT ELECTORAL ROLLS RELEASED, OVER 47 LAKH EXCLUDED
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s draft electoral roll was published Monday, with 47.7 lakh electors out of 1.45 crore of the city’s voters excluded.Delhi chief electoral officer said those excluded can file their claims till September 30 through Form 6 and supporting documents. The final roll is due November 4. Claims and objections will be examined, and […]
RAHUL CALLS FOR FIR AGAINST HALDWANI ‘SHUDDHIKARAN’
NEW DELHI: The row over an alleged purification ritual at the venue of Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s rally in Haldwani has taken a sharp political turn, with the BJP and the Congress trading allegations over discrimination against Dalits. The confrontation intensified after Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi demanded an FIR under the SC/ST Act against […]
AKHILESH YADAV ALLEGES CASTE BIAS IN UP
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday launched a strong attack on the Uttar Pradesh government, alleging caste-based discrimination in the state and claiming that fake encounters have been carried out based on caste. Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Yadav targeted the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF), alleging that the force […]
OVER 900 HYDRO-POWER WORKERS MISSING
NEW DELHI: Rescue workers are hunting for 933 missing hydropower workers, among the thousands of people missing in Nepal. Many are believed to be trapped inside the Trishuli-3A hydropower site in Rasuwa district, as well as sites in Chilime. Rescuers managed to create a hole wide enough to enter and begin the search for survivors […]
‘Modi ji, you have made my life hell’: Young girl behind abusive remarks against PM Modi resurfaces in a viral video
New Delhi, 31 August– A teenager Ruchika Singh, who was in the eye of a political storm after a video of her alleged abusive remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Italy PM Georgia Meloni during a Cockroach Janta Party protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar had gone viral last month, has resurfaced in a fresh video […]
