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UP To Get 18 New Nagar Panchayats

LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to establish 18 new Nagar panchayats and expand 20 existing urban civic bodies in Uttar Pradesh. Lalganj, Pratapgarh, Manikpur, Bhagwant Nagar, Unnao, Malihabad, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, and Amroha are among the civic bodies whose limits will be expanded. A total of 55 proposals were approved at […]

Punjab Ignored, AAP Rejects Centre’s MSP Panel

NEW DELHI: A day after the Central Government set up a committee on Minimum Support Price (MSP), newly elected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chaddha moved the notice of suspension of business to discuss the MSP. The AAP has termed it as “anti-government” and “violates principles of federalism”. The farmers’ agitation which […]

Resort Politics Is Coming To Bite BJP Back: Abhishek Banerjee

KOLKATA: It was a déjà vu feeling of sorts when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hauled its 69 MLAs to a hotel in Kolkata ahead of the Presidential elections on Monday. Taking a potshot at the decision, All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said that ‘resort politics is coming to bite BJP […]

Congress, Opposition Parties Protest Over Inflation, Price Rise

NEW DELHI: Congress, along with other opposition parties, on Tuesday, staged a protest in Parliament over the issue of inflation. Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi along with several senior leaders of the party like Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, KC Venugopal, Ranjeet Ranjan and Manickam Tagore staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament. The […]

Presidential Election: 67 Uttarakhand MLAs Vote; 2 Congress MLAs Skip Voting

DEHRADUN: One state cabinet minister and two Congress MLAs missed the action as 67 members, out of 70, of the state legislative assembly cast their vote in the Presidential Elections on Monday. Three MLAs who did not vote include state cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das, who had to be admitted to a hospital due to […]

Presidential Elections: JMM To Vote For Draupadi Murmu

NEW DELHI: Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will break ranks with the opposition as they pledged their support to NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu in the Presidential elections. Announcing the decision, JMM president Shibu Soren said, “For the first time since independence there is a chance that a tribal woman has a chance to become the President […]

Old Ajmer Video Surfaces: Sarwar Chisti Seen With PFI, SDPI

NEW DELHI: Ajmer Sharif Dargah’s Khadim Syed Sarwar Chishti, who threatened a movement that would “shake India” following the Nupur Sharma row, is once again in controversy.  An old video has surfaced online showing the religious leader meeting with members of Islamic extremist outfits Popular Front of India and its political wing Social Democratic Party […]

CM Yogi Wishes People On Guru Purnima, Cautions Against Covid

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday wished the people of the state on the auspicious occasion of Guru Purnima, and appealed to them to celebrate the festival while observing all Covid-related protocols. In his message to the citizens, CM Yogi, who is also the chief priest of the famous Gorakhpur temple, said […]

Control Freak Government Manipulating Judiciary: Congress

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday slammed the BJP government at the Centre regarding its governance “antics” using the judiciary saying it is no secret that this control freak government is manipulating the judiciary. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, “I am talking today about […]

Fearing Desertions, Congress Sends Wasnik To Goa

PANAJI: Amidst fear of desertions, Congress today sent party general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Wasnik to Goa to oversee the latest political developments in the state. Months after defeat in the assembly polls earlier this year, the Congress on Sunday once again faced another crisis as former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat and […]