New Delhi: Congress’ top leadership met on Monday at party chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s residence to decide whether Rahul Gandhi should vacate his Wayanad or Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat. The meeting also discussed whether Gandhi would take up the post of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, sources said. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi,…
New Delhi: Union minister for coals and mines G Kishan Reddy on Monday has been appointed as the incharge for poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir. The party president JP Nadda appointed the party’s election incharges and co-incharges for assembly poll-bound Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir. While assembly polls in Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand are due…
Kolkata: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) has started a probe into the cause of the accident in which a goods train rammed into the Kanchanjunga Express from behind in West Bengal’s Rangapani on Monday morning. Vaishnaw added that measures will be taken to prevent a recurrence of the circumstances…
New Jalpaiguri/Kolkata: At least 15 passengers died and 60 others were injured, after three rear coaches of the stationary Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express derailed on Monday morning as a goods train collided with it in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district, officials said. The toll could rise, as multiple agencies of the state and Centre were simultaneously working…
New Delhi: India on Sunday was among the countries that did not sign a joint communique at a Switzerland-hosted summit for peace in Ukraine even as New Delhi called for “sincere and practical engagement” between Moscow and Kyiv for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Pavan Kapoor, Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs…
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday slammed the move to relocate statues within the Parliament premises as “arbitrary and unilateral”, with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge saying such decisions made without proper discussion are against the rules and traditions of Parliament. The opposition party has claimed that the idea behind relocating the statues of Mahatma Gandhi,…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday directed security agencies to implement area domination and zero-terror plans in the Jammu division like they did in Kashmir to achieve success. He also said the Narendra Modi government is committed to set an example by cracking down on terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir through innovative…
New Delhi: Rejecting accusations of saffronisation of school curriculum, NCERT’s director has said that references to Gujarat riots and Babri masjid demolition were modified in school textbooks because teaching about riots “can create violent and depressed citizens. ” In an interaction with PTI editors at the agency’s headquarters here, National Council of Educational Research and…
Thiruvananthapuram: A day after his reference to former prime minister Indira Gandhi as ‘mother of India’ received widespread attention, Union Minister Suresh Gopi on Sunday clarified that he called the late leader the mother of the Congress party in the country and his remarks were misinterpreted by the media. The actor-turned-politician said he was a…
Bengaluru: A day after the Karnataka government announced a Rs 3 hike in fuel prices in the state, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah defended the move, pointing out that despite the price rise, Karnataka’s fuel prices remain lower than many other states in the country. “The Government of Karnataka has increased VAT on petrol to 29.84% and on…
