New Delhi: Social media giant Meta is learnt to have told a parliamentary committee on Monday that it is ready to apologise for the brief restriction on a post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook, as a section of members demanded legal action and sought fixing of accountability. At a meeting of the department-related…
Bengaluru/Chennai: Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Monday said the state government will respond to neighbouring Tamil Nadu’s approach to the Supreme Court on the Cauvery issue, as per legal advice. The Tamil Nadu government on Monday moved the Supreme Court over the Cauvery dispute with Karnataka, saying the quantum allocated to it by the…
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday slammed the BJP over its poor performance in the recent by-polls, asserting that this marks the beginning of change. Calling it a combined result of the youth’s unity and outrage stemming from various other issues, he said, “Even the BJP’s safest and most traditional seats will no…
New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Nabin on Monday accepted the people’s mandate in three assembly bypolls, saying the party will conduct a “thorough introspection” of the election results in Bankipur and Datia seats in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh respectively and work tirelessly to further strengthen their trust with renewed energy. This came after the BJP…
New Delhi: AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal’s proposed march to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on August 4 to submit petitions against E20 fuel will not be allowed, police sources said on Monday. A police source said no permission has been granted for the march and security arrangements are being made to prevent any unauthorised…
New Delhi: The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on Monday welcomed the Supreme Court’s clarification on the withdrawal of FIRs against protesters, saying it expected the Centre and BJP/NDA-ruled states to immediately implement the assurances given to agitating students under the July 25 agreement. The Supreme Court clarified that the expression “criminal antecedents” in its earlier…
Datia: The Congress on Monday retained the Datia assembly seat in Madhya Pradesh, with the party candidate Ghanshyam Singh defeating his nearest rival Ashutosh Tiwari of the BJP by 6,016 votes in the byelection marked by differences in the saffron camp over the choice of candidate. At the end of all 15 rounds of counting,…
Ahmedabad: The BJP has retained the Manjalpur Assembly seat in Gujarat’s Vadodara district, with its candidate, Satendrabhai Patel, defeating Congress nominee Bhikhabhai Rabari by over thirty thousand votes in the by-election. According to the Election Commission, Mr Patel secured 55,481 votes, while Mr Rabari polled 24,851 votes after all 20 rounds of counting. The bypoll…
Patna: Prashant Kishor secured a landmark victory in the Bankipur Assembly by-election, marking the first electoral win of the Jan Suraj Party and his own first victory as a candidate. The result is significant because Bankipur has been a BJP stronghold for decades, with the BJP (and its predecessor seat, Patna West) winning every election…
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed a bill that seeks to tackle the issue of delayed payments to MSMEs by prescribing timelines to ensure faster adjudication of disputes, provide recovery of the settlement agreement, and address their liquidity issues, even as Opposition members continued to disrupt the House. The Upper House was adjourned…
