MAHATMA NOT FROM MY FAMILY, BUT…”: PRIYANKA LEADS G RAM G PROTE
NEW DELHI: Mounting a strong protest against the Centre’s new Bill to replace the rural job guarantee scheme MGNREGS, senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the new Bill weakens the law and should be withdrawn. The Wayanad MP also said no law should be passed based on someone’s “whim, ambition and prejudice”. The Congress […]
SONIA CALLS FOR BETTER WAGES TO ASHA AND ANGANWADI WORKERS
NEW DELHI: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday raised the plight of women workers implementing the critical government programmes, including ASHA and Anganwadi workers and the community resource persons under the National Rural Livelihood Mission. In a mention in the Rajya Sabha, she said these initiatives were intended as pathways to women’s empowerment, […]
AMIT SHAH PM-IN-WAITING: SUCCESSION CHUM FROM NITIN NABIN’S SURPRISE ELEVATION
NEW DELHI: The sudden elevation of Bihar Minister Nitin Nabin as National Working President of the Bharatiya Janata Party has sent shock waves through the party’s upper echelons, triggering intense speculation about an emerging succession battle within the BJP. The move, described by several senior leaders as “unexpected and disruptive,” is being read as a […]
NOTHING TO DO…”: OMAR ABDULLAH ON CONGRESS LINE ON “VOTE CHORI”
NEW DELHI: The INDIA opposition bloc has nothing to do with the Congress’s ‘vote chori’ campaign, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has said. “The INDIA alliance has nothing to do with the Congress ‘Vote Chori’ campaign. Every party has the right to choose its agenda. The Congress has chosen […]
RAHUL, PRIYANKA, ADANI ATTEND SHARAD PAWAR’S PRE-BIRTHDAY DINNER IN DELHI
NEW DELHI: Political and business leaders gathered at the Delhi residence of NCP–SP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday for a private dinner held days before the veteran leader turns 85. The event at janpath brought together figures across party lines. Among those present were Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister […]
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 […]
