Politics

  NEW DELHI: A delegation of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is scheduled to meet Election Commission of India (ECI) officials here on Thursday over the issue of political violence in run-up to bypolls in Tripura. A delegation of six-party MPs will visit the ECI office to submit a memorandum in connection with the horrific […]

NEW DELHI: Newly elected Rajya Sabha member Kartikeya Sharma on Wednesday met Union home minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Jagat Prakash Nadda for the first time after winning the election. Sharma called on Shah and Nadda in Delhi on Wednesday evening. After meeting the two leaders separately, Sharma thanked BJP for […]

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi’s ordeal seems far from over as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has once again summoned the former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for questioning in connection with the National Herald case on Friday. The ED has already questioned the Congress Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Wayanad for over 30 hours in the last […]

DEHRADUN: The reports of the number of unprecedented deaths of pilgrims as well as equines have finally created noise at the Uttarakhand Assembly. The Leader of the Opposition at the assembly blamed the state government for the deaths during his speech on the second day of the budget session on Wednesday. The LoP in the […]

NEW DELHI: At a seemingly show of an anti-BJP front, in a throwback to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and in its run-up when the regional giants had stitched up a combine at the swearing-in of the JDS-Congress-BSP alliance in Karnataka, Mamata Banerjee convinced a galaxy of Opposition leaders to propose Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s […]