A day before the Rajya Sabha elections, the rebel candidate of the Congress Thursday withdrew from the contest. Addala Prabhakar Reddy, after a meeting with Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, announced that he is pulling out. He told reporters that he decided to withdraw as his defeat could be interpreted as the defeat of […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Saturday visit Gujarat and tour the historic Bardoli region where a ‘satyagraha’ by farmers was led by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1928, party leaders said Thursday. Gandhi will also visit the historic Swaraj Ashram dedicated to the Bardoli Satyagraha and is a major tourist attraction. Later in the afternoon, […]
Senior separatist leaders Shabir Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Nayeem Khan and Mushtaq-ul-Islam were arrested here Friday after organising a seminar in remembrance of JKLF founder Muhammad Maqbool Bhat and parliament attack convict Afzal Guru in a hotel here, police said, As these separatist leaders came out of the hotel in city centre Lal Chowk after the […]
Parveen Amanullah, Bihar’s first woman Muslim minister who quit the cabinet two days ago, Thursday joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), saying she wanted the AAP to govern Bihar. Amanullah, who was the social welfare minister in Nitish Kumar’s cabinet, resigned from the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and the government Tuesday. She formally quit the Bihar […]
Expelled Aam Aadmi Party legislator Vinod Kumar Binny said Wednesday that he has informed Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung that he wants to withdraw support to the AAP-led Delhi government. “I had given the Delhi government 48 hours to fulfill the demands, but till now they have not responded, so as announced, I am going to […]
Around 500 members of AAP protested here Wednesday demanding action against those who are allegedly bringing Ugandan women on the pretext of providing them jobs but forcing them into sex and drugs rackets. Three Ugandan women Tuesday registered a complaint with the police that several placement agencies were operating sex and drug rackets in and […]
India and Pakistan must realise that trade normalisation and peace will continue to face setbacks unless they commit themselves to preventing incidents like the arrest of truck drivers, a leading Pakistani daily said Wednesday. The Dawn said in an editorial that the resumption of intra-Kashmir trade, after being suspended over the arrest of a Pakistani […]
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day Wednesday in the post-lunch session after a statement by Defence Minister A.K. Antony on the now cancelled deal with AgustaWestland for purchase of 12 VVIP helicopters. After Antony made his statement, opposition members sought to ask clarifications from the minister causing din in the house. Some members […]
A day after Parveen Amanullah, the first Muslim woman minister in Bihar, resigned as social welfare minister and from the ruling Janata Dal (United), she said she will not reconsider her decision. “There is no question of taking back my resignation,” Amanullah told media persons here Wednesday after she met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at […]
Three days ahead of Narendra Modi’s visit to Assam, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday lashed out at the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, saying Modi sidelined other leaders of his party with his “dictatorial attitude”. “Modi has a dictatorial attitude. He is projecting himself as if it’s a one-man show in the Bharatiya Janata Party. He […]