Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the ‘One Nation, One Election’ idea is not practically feasible going by India’s federal structure. Hours after sending a letter to Dr Niten Chandra, secretary of a high-level committee that has called for suggestions for implementation of the idea, Banerjee requested…
New Delhi: BJP stalwart L K Advani, who was at the forefront of the Ram temple agitation, will attend the consecration ceremony of the temple in Ayodhya on January 22, VHP president Alok Kumar said on Thursday. However, it remains unclear whether party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi will attend the ceremony or not. “Advani ji has…
Ahmedabad: Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw made a momentous statement at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit, revealing that India’s first bullet train will begin operations in 2026. Vaishnaw said that the initial bullet train service will run between Surat and Bilimora. He also said the first “Made in India” memory chip will be delivered in 2024….
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress will not send its representatives for any meeting with the Congress’ national alliance committee on seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha elections as it has already conveyed its position to the grand old party, TMC sources said on Thursday. The Congress panel has been holding seat-sharing talks with Indian National Developmental…
Gandhinagar: Canada’s High Commissioner to India Cameron Mackay on Thursday said notwithstanding the recent tensions, the strategic interests of India and Canada are “absolutely aligned”, and he was encouraged by the continuance of bilateral trade and investment relationship. Addressing a seminar on ‘India-Canada Business: The Way Forward’ at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, he said,…
Imphal: Heavy fuel leaked from a power station in Manipur’s Imphal valley and spilled into streams flowing alongside it, officials said on Thursday. The incident happened on Wednesday night at the Leimakhong power station in Kangpokpi district. Streams passing through villages such as Kanto Sabal and Sekmai were affected by the spill, they said. These…
Pune: Former Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday said legislators should not change parties frequently, warning that party-hopping will lead to people losing interest in politics which will be bad for democracy. He was speaking at the inaugural function of the 13th Bharatiya Chhatra Sansad organised by the MIT School of Government and MIT World…
New Delhi: A Delhi Court on Wednesday extended till January 20 the judicial custody of AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam. Special Judge M K Nagpal also allowed Singh to visit the returning officer to receive his election certificate upon his re-election to…
Bhubaneshwar: The opposition BJP on Wednesday demanded a CBI probe into alleged irregularities worth around Rs 9 lakh-crore in Odisha’s mining sector between 2000-2014. Addressing a press conference, leader of the opposition Jaynarayan Mishra claimed that the total value of mining irregularities is Rs 8,97,443 crore. “It is suspected that ‘corruption’ in mining took place…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar ruled that former CM and UBT faction leader Uddhav Thackeray “had no power” to remove now CM Eknath Shinde and adjudged that Shinde’s faction is the “real” Shiv Sena party when rival factions emerged in 2022. The Speaker also turned down the demand of Thackeray faction to disqualify CM Shinde and his MLAs. “I hold that the Shinde faction…
