Nagpur: A special session of the state legislature will be held in February 2024, if necessary, to provide reservation to the Maratha community after reviewing a report of the Backward Class Commission, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde told the assembly here on Tuesday. He was speaking during a discussion on the reservation issue, explaining the…
New Delhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday proposed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s name as the prime ministerial candidate of opposition bloc INDIA, but the veteran Congress leader said it is important to win first and everything else can be decided later. Sources, however, said there was no…
New Delhi: A crucial meeting of the opposition INDIA bloc began in the national capital on Tuesday where top leaders were discussing the way forward, including seat-sharing, for taking on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The issue of the suspension of 141 opposition MPs in both Houses of Parliament came up at…
New Delhi The Congress on Tuesday alleged that a “complete purge” is being executed so that “draconian bills” are passed without any meaningful debate and the BJP MP “who facilitated entry of the two intruders” into the Lok Sabha on December 13 goes scot-free. The opposition party’s attack came soon after 49 Lok Sabha MPs were…
New Delhi: As many as 127 opposition MPs have been suspended from the Lok Sabha over protests about the Parliament security breach issue, according to PTI, whereas at least 46 opposition MPs of the Rajya Sabha have so far been suspended for unruly behaviour and for disrupting the proceedings of the house. On Tuesday, forty-nine Lok Sabha MPs,…
New Delhi: As many as 78 Opposition MPs — 33 from the Lok Sabha and 45 from the Rajya Sabha — were suspended on Monday for disrupting the proceedings of Parliament. This takes the total number of MPs suspended to 92. Last week, 13 opposition members were suspended from the Lok Sabha and one was…
New Delhi: The Centre on Monday asked states and union territories to maintain constant vigil amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases and the detection of the first case of the new JN.1 variant in the country. In a letter to states and union territories, Union Health Secretary Sudhansh Pant underlined that “due to consistent and collaborative…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has issued a fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning on December 21 in the excise policy-linked money laundering case, officials said Monday. He was first called by the federal agency to appear on November 2, but he did not depose alleging that the notice was “vague,…
New Delhi: Nine people were detained today as the National Investigative Agency (NIA) raided about 19 locations across four states this morning in connection with the ISIS network case and busted a “highly radicalised jihadi terror group”. The raids were carried out at 11 locations in Karnataka, four in Jharkhand, three in Maharashtra, and one…
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday accused the Congress and its allies of “insulting” the Lok Sabha speaker and Rajya Sabha chairperson and “embarrassing” the country with their conduct, with 92 opposition members suspended from both Houses in the past five days. Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal told reporters that opposition…
