New Delhi: Opposition members of the parliamentary standing committee on Home walked out of a meeting on Thursday after their demand to discuss the situation in Manipur was denied by the panel chief, sources said. At the meeting to discuss prison reforms in Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, TMC’s Derek O’Brien, and Congress’ Digvijaya Singh…
New Delhi: Top leaders of the Congress on Thursday held crucial deliberations with the party’s leaders in Rajasthan on the poll strategy and preparedness, while also seeking to resolve the tussle between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire Sachin Pilot. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary organisation K…
Mumbai, Jul 5 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar appeared to be ahead in number game with more NCP MLAs supporting him than his uncle and party president Sharad Pawar as the warring factions held their separate meetings on Wednesday to show their strength, escalating the battle between them to control the outfit. As…
Chennai: BJP’s southern ally AIADMK on Wednesday reiterated its stand against the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code. AIADMK chief K Palaniswami, when asked by reporters on BJP’s push for Uniform Civil Code and his party’s stand, said the position had already been made known in the party’s manifesto released for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls….
Islamabad: The IMF’s executive board is set to meet on July 12 to review the USD 3 billion Standby Arrangement with cash-strapped Pakistan and will also possibly release the first tranche of USD 1.1 billion as part of the loan programme, a media report said on Wednesday. The Pakistan government and the International Monetary Fund…
Mumbai: Surrounded by party workers, including 32 of NCP’s 53 MLAs, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday reminded his 83-year-old uncle Sharad Pawar that it was time for him to retire. “In BJP, leaders retire at 75, when are you going to stop,” Ajit Pawar said, speaking at the meeting convened by him in…
New Delhi: A day after his appointment as the Telangana BJP president, Union minister G Kishan Reddy skipped the meeting of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Though no official reason was cited for his absence, some leaders believe it could be an indication of his likely exit from the Union Cabinet…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh on July 7 and Telangana and Rajasthan the next day and will inaugurate or lay foundation stones of projects worth around Rs 50,000 crore, his office said on Wednesday. All these states except Uttar Pradesh are slated to go to polls later this year….
New Delhi: The factional fight of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has reached the doorstep of the Election Commission with the group led by Ajit Pawar filing over 40 affidavits of MLAs and MPs in his support. The Sharad Pawar camp has filed a caveat with the poll authority urging it to hear them first before…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended interim protection from arrest to activist Teesta Setalvad in a case linked to the 2002 post-Godhra riots. The next hearing will be on July 19. A bench of Justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna and Dipankar Datta issued notice to the Gujarat government on the appeal filed…
