Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:06:34
Its eyes fixed on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP is likely to continue with changes at key positions in its several state units to address organisational issues and emerging political challenges.
The recent revamp of its apex organisational body, the Parliamentary Board, may have made more news for its omissions, Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh C
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:03:38
Amid a raging debate on freebies, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently launched the AAP's 'Make India No.1' campaign, calling for the utilisation of public funds to provide free education to children and healthcare facilities to citizens, among other things.
He invited the BJP, the Congress and other parties to join the "apolitical" campaign, even as he blamed the parties that have rul
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:01:51
Amid the uproar over the death of a Dalit school boy in Rajasthan after being beaten up by a teacher, senior Congress leader Meira Kumar on Sunday stressed on completely eradicating the "illness" of the caste system and adopting a "zero tolerance" approach against prejudice.
In an interview with PTI, the former Union minister also said one should not get into which particular regime or politica
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 17:00:15
From a "nuclear explosion" in the country to North Korea sending troops to Ayodhya, the 102 YouTube channels banned by the government were known to routinely spread disinformation about India to its lakhs of subscribers, and were "monetising fake news", officials have said.
The government started the crackdown against such YouTube channels for the first time in December last year using its emer
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:57:48
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena MLA and former Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray has sought to know what did the rebel legislators achieve by "backstabbing" the party leadership when it supported them in every possible way.
He made the remarks on Saturday at a public rally in Jalgaon, the Assembly constituency of rebel Sena leader and present state minister Gulabrao Patil.
In June this year, Shiv Sen
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:55:55
The Congress on Saturday accused the Centre of having pressured the RBI to "disown" its research report which argued against a "big bang approach" to privatisation of banks, and demanded that the government come out with a white paper on public sector banks' privatisation.
Party leader Rahul Gandhi said "tanashah's (dictator's) wish is the government's command" and even independent institutions
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:54:04
More than 30 people were reported killed following flash floods and landslides in parts of the country on Saturday.
Rain wreaked havoc in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha and Jharkhand.
At least 31 people were killed, 22 of them in Himachal Pradesh alone, as heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods, landslides, and house collapses, upending normal life across large swathes of the cou
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:46:39
Karnataka is one of the most water stressed states in India, with about 61 per cent of it in drought-prone region, and the state has much to worry as its new Water Policy 2022 cautions about the negative trend in rainfall and increase in area under drought in the days ahead.
Having suffered more than 15 drought years over the last two decades, things may be more challenging for the state in the
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Sun, 21 Aug 2022 16:43:51
A 42-year-old woman ended her life by hanging at her home on the day of Uttara Kriya (obsequial rites) of her husband who passed away a few days ago here.
The incident was reported from Kondalkana at Panaje village in Puttur taluk of Dakshina Kannada district on Saturday, police said.
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