Mumbai: After a brief stint as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister in 2019 under a BJP government, NCP leader Ajit Pawar is back to the post by splitting the party, in a stunning turn events in the state politics. Pawar, who was also the deputy CM in the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, which…
Khammam (Telangana): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said the party’s blueprint for a “new dawn” in Telangana is ready and that 3.8 crore people of the state want change. He also said that the Congress is proud of its collective leadership in Telangana. The remarks came ahead of the party’s grand public meeting in the…
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday said her party is not opposed to the idea of a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), but does not endorse the way the BJP and its government “seek to implement it in the country”. In her first remarks on the UCC since the Law Commission on June 14…
Mumbai: In an expected move, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) formally splits in Maharashtra with Ajit Pawar walking out of the party with 29 other MLAs. At a jet speed, even Ajit Pawar was sworn in as deputy chief minister – a position he will share with BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis. Besides him, nine others…
Itanagar: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has expressed its desire to field candidates in all 60 assembly constituencies and two Lok Sabha seats in Arunachal Pradesh in the general elections next year. AAP state unit general secretary Toko Nikam told reporters that the party is committed to providing free water, electricity, medical facilities till Rs 10…
With the final warning from the Supreme Court on January 2022, the Narendra Modi government at the Centre appears to be determined to bring in the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in the monsoon session, starting July 20. Although the final draft is yet to be made public, campaigning has begun in support and against…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court late Saturday night protected social activist Teesta Setalvad from arrest and stayed for a week the Gujarat High Court order rejecting her plea for regular bail and asking her to surrender immediately in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in 2002 post-Godhra riot cases. In…
Hyderabad: The Congress would sound the poll bugle in Telangana on Sunday with party leader Rahul Gandhi addressing a public meeting at Khammam. Congress State Legislature Party (CLP) leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka’s ‘padayatra’ would also conclude at the rally. Gandhi would felicitate Vikramarka, who began his foot march near Adilabad, covering 1,360 km in 108 days…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said Goods and Services Tax (GST) has increased revenue buoyancy of states, and the all-round benefit stands out as “exemplary”. The multiplicity of taxes in the pre-GST regime resulted in a “tax-on-tax” effect, causing the same product to be taxed multiple times and hence becoming costlier for…
Hyderabad: During the cit-based Asian Institute of Gastroenterology (AIG) Hospital group’s three-day “Liver Conclave, which was attended by renowned medical practitioners from across the globe, have come up with a startling revelation that 60 percent of obese children have fatty liver disease. It was probably the first time in India that so many legendary liver…
