New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday announced its first list of party candidates for the Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana assembly elections. While the party announced 144 party candidates for Madhya Pradesh elections, it announced 30 candidates for the Chhattisgarh polls and another 55 for Telangana assembly polls slated next month. In Madhya Pradesh, the…
Chennai: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday demanded the immediate implementation of the Women’s Reservation Bill, allowing quota for women in legislative bodies, saying women have “no more time to waste.”. She was speaking at the Women’s Rights Conference organised by the DMK here. Today, there was much talk of empowerment as every political party…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Saturday said no issue can be viewed in isolation, particularly in an interconnected world, even as the G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) saw leaders raising the West Asia conflict and other geo-political issues. In his closing statement at the P20 Summit, Birla noted that some members mentioned significant…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said he has written a new Garba song over the last few days and will share it with people during Navratri. Modi also thanked artistes Dhvani Bhanushali and Tanishk Bagchi and the team of Jjust Music for the musical rendition of another Garba song that he had penned…
New Delhi: The launch of a passenger ferry service from Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam to Kankesanthurai, near Jaffna, in Sri Lanka is a “truly big step” for boosting people-to-people ties between the two countries, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday. In his remarks at a virtual ceremony on the launch of the ferry service,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said ferry service between India and Sri Lanka will enhance connectivity, promote trade, and reinforce the longstanding bonds between the two countries. In his message delivered virtually during the flag-off event of the ferry service from India’s Nagapattinam to Sri Lanka, he said that during the recent…
New Delhi: The speakers of parliaments of G20 countries Friday pledged to utilise their legislative, budgetary, and oversight functions to play their part in combating terrorism and violent extremism. In a joint statement adopted at the Parliament-20 Summit here, they also condemned terrorism in all forms and manifestations, including those on the basis of xenophobia,…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said justice to the victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, which were “politically motivated”, started being delivered only after the Narendra Modi government assumed office in 2014. Addressing a programme of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee here, Shah said 300 cases related to the 1984…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday targeted the Modi government after India slipped to 111th rank in the Global Hunger Index (GHI), asking whether 74 percent of Indians are not able to afford a healthy diet due to backbreaking price rise. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge cited data from the National Health and Family Survey 2019-2021…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said India is promoting the participation of women in every sector with almost 50 percent of the elected representatives in local self-government institutions being women. The recent law on granting one-third reservation to women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies will further enrich the country’s parliamentary…
