NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday moved to install a popular govt in Manipur, where President’s rule will complete one year on Feb 12, with its legislative party set to elect a new leader.Official sources said BJP MLAs are in the national capital and will be electing a new leader, who will be sworn in as…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday stormed out of a meeting with CEC Gyanesh Kumar over the SIR of electoral roll issue in her state, alleging EC “humiliated and insulted” the TMC delegation and that it was BJP’s “dalal”.Talking to reporters later in front of…
Mamata Banerjee at EC office in New Delhi (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Election Commission, in its meeting with TMC president Mamata Bannerjee on Monday, red-flagged the repeated use of abusive and threatening language by party MLAs against the commission and its field officers as well as vandalisation of SIR-related offices in Bengal by party workers…
JAMMU: J&K’s governing National Conference (NC) on Monday urged BJP to move beyond demands for a National Law University (NLU) in Jammu and instead press the Centre to restore statehood to the Union territory.Surinder Choudhary, deputy chief minister in the Omar Abdullah-led govt, accused BJP of raising the NLU issue as part of its claims…
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump lavishly praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “powerful and respected” leader as he announced the long-awaited India–US trade deal on Monday. Trump also applauded himself and PM Modi as leaders who “get things done,” crediting the agreement to their personal rapport, saying the deal was finalised out of…
New Delhi: Delhi CM Rekha Gupta addresses a press conference on Union Budget 2026-27, at Delhi Secretariat in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Monday announced that the Delhi government is expecting to commission a new 105 million gallon per day (MGD) water treatment plant at Chandrawal in 2026.The pending project,…
File photo: Priyanka Gandhi with Rahul Gandhi (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday defended her brother, Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, saying he was not attempting to defame the Army but was merely quoting from a magazine article referring to excerpts from the unpublished memoir of former…
Sonam Wangchuk (File photo) NEW DELHI: Environmental activist Sonam Wangchuk attempted to “instigate” Ladakh’s youth for protests inspired by regime-toppling movements in Nepal and Bangladesh, the Centre and the Union Territory administration told the Supreme Court on Monday.Wangchuk has been in jail since September last year following deadly violence during pro-statehood protests in his native…
Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha speech sparked chaos after he quoted an unpublished Army chief memoir, leading to protests and an adjournment. The BJP hit back at the Opposition after Lok Sabha proceedings were repeatedly disrupted, defending the adjournment and citing rule violations. Sanjay Raut alleged Ajit Pawar’s plane crash death was “suspicious,” demanding a probe,…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “ran away” from making decisions, adding the Centre was “scared” of ex-Army chief MM Naravane’s perspective of the 2020 Galwan clash. Rahul was repeatedly denied permission to quote Naravane’s unpublished memoir in Parliament, with Union home minister Amit Shah,…