Vishnu Deo Sai – tribal leader and former Union Minister – is the BJP’s pick as the next Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh in the run-up to 2024 general election. This afternoon, he was elected as leader of the BJP’s legislature party at the meeting of the 54 newly-elected MLAs. The selection – made after a...
Delhi’s pollution levels continued to rise on Friday, inching towards the higher end of the ‘very poor’ category in the morning. The city’s air quality index (AQI) at 7.05am stood at 349, up from the average 24-hour AQI of 320 on Thursday. The 24-hour average AQI in the city had been ‘poor’ since Tuesday, though...
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh today said that the Congress party should be grateful to Prime Minister Narendra Modi because he had completed Jawaharlal Nehru’s unfinished task by abrogating Article 370. “Nehru and the Congress party had accepted Article 370 of the constitution as temporary but allowed it to continue because over the years, the...
Amid an Opposition walkout, Trinamool Congress member Mahua Moitra was expelled from the Lok Sabha on Friday over cash-for-query allegations. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi had moved a resolution which said her continuance as a Member of Parliament was “untenable” and her conduct was “unbecoming of an MP” The Trinamool MP was accused of taking...
The BJP on Friday appointed Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda as central observers for electing the leader of its legislative party in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh respectively. The new legislative party leaders will become chief ministers of the three states, and the meetings...
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Friday said that as a judge, he is a “servant” of the law and the Constitution and has to follow the position that has been laid down. As soon as a bench headed by the CJI assembled for the day’s proceedings, advocate Mathews J Nedumpara mentioned a matter...
BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri on Thursday expressed regret for his objectionable remarks against BSP’s Danish Ali in a meeting of the Lok Sabha Privileges Committee, which heard both leaders separately. Sources said Mr Bidhuri in his deposition before the committee noted that senior BJP leader and Union minister Rajnath Singh had conveyed his regret in...
The actions or inactions of a chief secretary must not put the elected government at a “standstill”, the Supreme Court has said while holding that the Centre’s decision to extend the services of the top-most bureaucrat in the Delhi government for six months cannot be construed as violative of law. “The chief secretary performs functions...
An Ethics Committee report on cash-for-query allegations against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra is expected in the Lok Sabha today. If tabled, the report, which recommends Ms Moitra be expelled, will trigger an explosive stand-off between the ruling BJP and the opposition, which has demanded a division of votes to determine the Trinamool leader’s immediate political future. Mahua Moitra,...
Pugmarks believed to belong to a leopard were seen in Sanik Farms, where the forest department had hunted for a big cat but not found one. The cameras, which the department had removed on Tuesday, are back in a different area — W21 lane in Western Avenue — as the pugmarks were seen there. Forest...