Bhopal: Three BJP candidates from Madhya Pradesh were elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, days after Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination was rejected by the Returning Officer. Polling for three Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh was scheduled for June 18. Given the BJP’s strength in the 230-member state Assembly, the election of…
Kolkata: Senior TMC leader and MP Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday urged party chief Mamata Banerjee to choose between her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and senior leaders like him. He also accused the party’s national general secretary of arrogance and having a fluctuating mindset. Kalyan, also a senior advocate, declared he would remove himself from all legal…
New Delhi: The expanding West Asia war has placed thousands of Indian seafarers in severe danger, with numerous commercial vessels attacked or stranded near the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. Tragic strikes on merchant shipping have left severl Indian sailors dead or missing, prompting urgent rescue operations and diplomatic pushback from New Delhi….
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress leader Prakash Chik Baraik on Thursday resigned as a Rajya Sabha MP. He told ANI that he was “accepting the opinion” of the people of West Bengal, referring to the Assembly elections in which the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated the TMC in May. It was unclear if Baraik had also quit the…
New Delhi: As China expands its underwater presence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and Pakistan moves closer to inducting advanced Chinese-built submarines, the Indian Navy has received 21 of the 24 MH-60R ‘Romeo’ multi-role helicopters contracted from the United States to strengthen its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities. Of the 21 helicopters delivered so far,…
New Delhi: India on Wednesday summoned the United States’ Chargé d’Affaires Jason Meeks in New Delhi to register a strong protest over an attack on a commercial vessel off the coast of Oman, near the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz, after three Indian crew members were reported missing. The U.S. military carried out a…
New Delhi: Talks of a merger between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) are baseless, people familiar with the matter told HT, asserting that there is no proposal under consideration for the two parties to merge. However, sources indicated that both parties have kept the door open for a possible alliance and remain in…
New Delhi: Former Rajya Sabha MP and columnist Swapan Dasgupta, who won the Rashbehari Assembly seat in West Bengal by more than 20,500 votes, will be the Finance Minister of West Bengal in the Suvendu Adhikari-led Cabinet, as announced in the allocation of portfolios on Wednesday. All the 41 ministers in the West Bengal government, including…
Guwahati: Another Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP, Sushmita Dev, resigned from all party posts, making her the second Rajya Sabha MP from the party to do so this week. And this is only the third day of the week. “I do hereby resign from the membership of Rajya Sabha, which may please be accepted with immediate…
New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan personally reviewed the National Testing Agency’s preparations for the June 21 NEET-UG re-exam, stressing extra precautions from question paper setting to their secure delivery. He cited multiple high-level meetings under the Cabinet Secretary, coordination with chief ministers, and enhanced roles for newly inducted NTA officials. The exam will…
