New Delhi: India on Wednesday summoned the United States’ Chargé d’Affaires Jason Meeks in New Delhi to register a strong protest over an attack on a commercial vessel off the coast of Oman, near the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz, after three Indian crew members were reported missing. The U.S. military carried out a…
New Delhi: Talks of a merger between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) are baseless, people familiar with the matter told HT, asserting that there is no proposal under consideration for the two parties to merge. However, sources indicated that both parties have kept the door open for a possible alliance and remain in…
New Delhi: Former Rajya Sabha MP and columnist Swapan Dasgupta, who won the Rashbehari Assembly seat in West Bengal by more than 20,500 votes, will be the Finance Minister of West Bengal in the Suvendu Adhikari-led Cabinet, as announced in the allocation of portfolios on Wednesday. All the 41 ministers in the West Bengal government, including…
Guwahati: Another Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP, Sushmita Dev, resigned from all party posts, making her the second Rajya Sabha MP from the party to do so this week. And this is only the third day of the week. “I do hereby resign from the membership of Rajya Sabha, which may please be accepted with immediate…
New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan personally reviewed the National Testing Agency’s preparations for the June 21 NEET-UG re-exam, stressing extra precautions from question paper setting to their secure delivery. He cited multiple high-level meetings under the Cabinet Secretary, coordination with chief ministers, and enhanced roles for newly inducted NTA officials. The exam will…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit France and Slovakia from June 13 to 18, during which he will hold bilateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, participate in the G7 Summit in France and attend the VivaTech technology event in Paris. According to the Ministry of External…
Krishnanagar (WB) Former West Bengal minister Ujjal Biswas was arrested on Tuesday night in connection with an alleged case of misappropriation of government tarpaulins, hours after he was heckled by protesters outside his residence in Nadia district over the controversy. Biswas, the former correctional department minister and a senior TMC leader, was arrested following an investigation…
Chennai: All eyes will be on the DMK and its eight MPs if the BJP-led NDA brings back, as is being speculated, the women’s reservation amendment and the linked delimitation bill in the wake of a weakening INDIA bloc and a potential split in the Trinamool Congress, helping the government in its legislative agendas. The…
Bhopal: Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of attempting to influence the Rajya Sabha election after her nomination from Madhya Pradesh was rejected over alleged discrepancies in her election affidavit. The controversy began after election authorities rejected Natarajan’s nomination, citing the alleged non-disclosure of information related to a case in…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar may have more firefighting to do amid dissatisfaction among his colleagues over Cabinet portfolio allocations. The chief minister weathered the Ramalinga Reddy storm last week after the senior leader withdrew his resignation, but looks like more turbulence is headed his way. Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, who has been allocated…
