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…
New Delhi: (Aug 3) A video purportedly recorded at Jantar Mantar a day before the CJP’s ‘Sansad Chalo’ protest march on July 20 has surfaced online, showing senior Delhi Police officers asking the organisers to implement adequate crowd-management measures before the gathering swelled. The viral video captures an interaction involving New Delhi Deputy Commissioner of…
Kolkata: The Congress high command has decided to strengthen its organisational focus on West Bengal and will soon send a team of AICC observers to all organisational districts in the state to assess the party’s grassroots structure, a senior leader of the party said on Monday. The All India Congress Committee (AICC) observers will visit…
New Delhi: The total annual passenger handling capacity at airports in the country has increased to more than 580 million, the government said on Monday. Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol told the Rajya Sabha that capacity augmentation and modernisation projects are undertaken from time to time by the Airports Authority of India…
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to replace an ordinance that increased the number of Supreme Court judges from 34 to 38 without a debate, as opposition members persisted with slogan-shouting over the issues of NEET paper leak and alleged theft of Ram temple donations. Last week, a bill to amend…
Online Desk Amid Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor’s lead in the Bankipur Assembly bypoll, Bihar Minister Shrawon Kumar said the NDA remained confident of victory and urged people to wait for the final result after all 31 rounds of counting. “We are not denying our claim yet. When the results are declared after 31 rounds…
