(Our Special Correspondent) New Delhi: The Union Cabinet has cleared the much awaited Women’s Reservation Bill that grants 33% reservation for women in the lower house of the parliament and state legislative assemblies. Meanwhile, the Union Minister for Parliament Affairs, Prahalad Joshi, too confirmed of the Cabinet clearance of the Bill. The meeting had spiked…
Chennai: Strains between the AIADMK and BJP seemed to have reached a flashpoint on Tuesday when a senior leader of the Dravidian party said there was no alliance with the saffron organisation and that any decision on a poll pact will be decided only during the election. Senior AIADMK leader D Jayakumar, lashing out at BJP…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid tributes to “every brick” of the old Parliament building and said the MPs will enter the new building with “new hope and confidence”. In his over an hour-long speech in Lok Sabha, Modi remembered the journey of India’s democracy and said the last day in this heritage…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said opposition parties only think about defeating Prime Minister Narendra Modi but “sheep and goats” cannot put up a fight against a lion in a jungle. Speaking to a Hindi news channel from Shrinagar, Shinde said, “I will not call opposition vultures but sheep and goats cannot come…
Thiruvananthapuram: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the West was not the “bad guy” as it was not flooding Asian and African markets with goods on a massive scale and that there was a need to get over the “syndrome” of seeing it in a negative way. Jaishankar, in an interview to Malayalam news…
New Delhi: Several regional parties, including the BJD and the BRS, pushed for the tabling of the women’s reservation bill in Parliament as the government held an all-party meeting on Sunday, a day ahead of the start of a five-day session. Congress MP Pramod Tiwari said his party will raise issues like price rise, unemployment,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched Rs 13,000-crore PM Vishwakarma Yojana (scheme) for traditional artisans and craftsmen, and inaugurated the Rs 5,400-crore first phase of state-of-the art India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC) — ‘Yashobhoomi’ — at Dwarka, here. “Today I dedicate ‘Yashobhoomi’ to every labourer, every ‘Vishwakarma’ of the nation,” Modi…
Hyderabad: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) has alleged that the promise of a golden Telangana “lies shattered” nine years after the state’s formation as it has been “betrayed” by governments of the BJP in Delhi and the BRS in Hyderabad. The party also claimed that Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and his family have…
Jogbani (Bihar): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday announced that the Central government has identified 10 places to establish Land Customs Stations (LCS) in Bihar along the international border to improve bilateral trade between India and Nepal. An LCS is a facility providing transit, customs, immigration and cargo handling services for goods and passengers travelling…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday lashed out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claiming that the northeastern region is missing from a map of India shared by the party on social media. The grand old party’s MP from the state, Gaurav Gogoi, was quick to retort by asking the CM about the land…
