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Bhopal: Congress nominee for the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister’s post Kamal Nath will take oath at the Jamboori Maidan here on Monday. Earlier, when Governor Anandiben Patel had handed a letter of appointment for the top post to Kamal Nath, it was decided to have the oath-taking ceremony at the Lal Parade Ground but the […]

Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Saturday rejected the BJP’s application for holding “Rath Yatra and/or Ganatantra Bachao yatra” in the state saying there was a “grave apprehension of major breach of peace and communal violence during and in the aftermath” of the programme. In an official communication to the BJP, that was made public […]

New Delhi: The silver jubilee celebration of the Delhi Assembly on Saturday remained an all-AAP MLA event, with both Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress boycotting the event. In his address at the function to mark the 25th anniversary of the Delhi Assembly’s first sitting on December 14, 1993, Speaker Ram Niwas Goel hit out […]

Bhopal: Congress leader Kamal Nath was on Thursday chosen as the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, heralding Congress rule in the state after 15 years. Kamal Nath, who flew in here late in the evening, was formally chosen leader of the state Congress legislature party after party President Rahul Gandhi decided on his name […]

Hyderabad: K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Thursday took oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana for a second term in a row. Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader at a ceremony held at Raj Bhavan. Mohammed Mahmood Ali, a member of Telangana Legislative Council, also […]

New Delhi: Attacking the government for appointing Shaktikanta Das as RBI Governor, the Congress on Wednesday alleged that he would play to the tunes of the government and that choosing a bureaucrat who defended demonetisation, instead of an eminent economist, will diminish the institution. Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said Das was the second person […]

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday tendered his resignation to the Governor and decided that the BJP will not stake claim to form a government in the state as they have not secured a majority. “As we have not got the majority in the state so we are not going to […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the BJP accepts with humility verdict of people in the five states and congratulated the Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) and the Mizo National Front (MNF) for their victories. Modi, in a series of tweets in the evening on a long day of results, said […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the identity of rape victims has to be protected at all stages of the case including during trial. A bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur, S. Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta said that the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) reports and other documents related to such […]

New Delhi: The Congress took early significant leads in BJP-ruled Rajasthan and was locked in a close fight in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh as officials counted the millions of votes polled in Assembly elections in five states. Election Commission officials also said on the basis of preliminary trends that the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi […]

New Delhi: Stepping up its attack on the Modi government over the searches at the premises of people linked to Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra, the Congress on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of misusing the investigating agencies. The Congress also alleged that actions by these were being carried out on opposition […]

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme saying it was meant to benefit the insurance company owners. “Just like crop insurance scheme, ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme is also meant to benefit the owners of the insurance companies who are friends of PM Modi,” Kejriwal said. […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday carried out searches at the office of Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law Robert Vadra in an ongoing probe into the 2012 land deal in Kolayat in Rajasthan, official sources said. The searches at the Sukhdeo Vihar office began at 11 a.m. The action came after Vadra ignored fresh […]

Ahmednagar (Maharashtra): Union Minister for Shipping Nitin Gadkari, a diabetic, fainted during a function here on Friday due to “low sugar” and later, after taking rest, left for the Shirdi Sai Baba temple. The incident occurred when he was standing with other dignitaries for the National Anthem at the convocation function of the Mahatma Phule […]

Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said if the BJP comes to power in Telangana, it will rename Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar. Addressing a series of election rallies in support of BJP candidates in the state on the last day of the campaign, he said only BJP could turn Hyderabad into Bhagyanagar. “Hyderabad […]