Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh has been suspended for the remaining duration of the Monsoon session of Parliament. Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar took the call during the Opposition parties’ protest in the House over the Manipur video incident. The Opposition parties were protesting against the incident, in which two women in Manipur’s Kangpokpi were...
A mob attack at the office of Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma left five security personnel injured. Mr Sangma is unharmed. He is, however, still inside his office in Tura as hundreds have surrounded the compound. Garo Hills-based civil society groups have been on a hunger strike demanding for a winter capital in Tura. Trouble...
The BJP on Monday targeted the AAP and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying the Supreme Court has shown the mirror to the Delhi government by ordering it to pay its share of the RRTS project. The Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS) project consists of semi-high-speed rail corridors connecting Delhi to Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, Alwar...
The Rajasthan assembly on Monday saw unprecedented scenes sacked minister Rajendra Gudha reached the House waving a red diary which he claimed holds details of irregular financial transactions. Gudha claimed that Congress leaders dragged him out of the assembly. Gudha was sacked as minister of state on Friday after he cornered the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government...
After the alliance of Opposition parties, I.N.D.I.A, created a ruckus inside the Parliament on Monday, July 24, BJP MP from North East Delhi, Manoj Tiwari, criticized the political leaders for their conduct. All this happened over the Manipur violence matter. Taking a dig at the Opposition, Tiwari called the leaders ‘impotent’ and ‘shameless’, and challenged...
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh has been suspended for the remaining duration of the Monsoon session of Parliament. Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar took the call during the Opposition parties’ protest in the House over the Manipur video incident. The Opposition parties were protesting against the incident, in which two women in Manipur’s Kangpokpi were...
The water level in the Yamuna River has surpassed the danger level again. This surge in Yamuna’s water level is primarily due to the discharge of water from the Hathnikund Barrage caused by heavy rainfall in some regions of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. At 9 am this morning (Sunday), the river was flowing at 205.96...
Johannesburg: Culture is a very important factor in the BRICS bloc and its five countries comprising the grouping are deeply connected in terms of values, India’s culture minister Meenakshi Lekhi has said. Lekhi, the Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture, met culture ministers of BRICS countries in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday (July 22) arrived in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur to review the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll-preparedness ahead of the Assembly elections later this year, a party leader said. Shah arrived at the Swami Vivekananda Airport by a special flight around 8.35 pm and headed to the headquarters of the state unit...
The outrage that followed a video of two Kuki-Zomi women being stripped and sexually assaulted in Manipur has led to panic among the small community of Meiteis residing in Mizoram, with many of them leaving the state on Saturday. In response to the situation, the Manipur government said it is willing to evacuate them from the state...