NEW DELHI: Congress neta Rahul Gandhi Wednesday alleged “PM Narendra Modi is compromised”, saying he was stopped from speaking during the motion of thanks debate because he wanted to raise issues critical to the people. This was the first time a leader of opposition was thwarted from addressing Lok Sabha, Rahul claimed.Rahul, along with MP…
KOCHI: PM Modi Wednesday dedicated projects worth nearly Rs 11,000 crore to Kerala during his visit to the poll-bound state, besides formally kicking off the NDA’s campaign.He laid the foundation stone for a polypropylene unit worth over Rs 5,500 crore at the Kochi refinery of BPCL, inaugurated two major highway projects costing over Rs 2,000…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party, Congress, TMC, Shiv Sena, JMM, IUML tore into Speaker Om Birla, as they accused him of being biased.SP’s Anand Bhadauria said the ruling BJP has torn to shreds the dignity of the Chair, and the removal notice against the Speaker is to save that high post.Congress MP Jothimani and TMC’s Sayoni…
TRICHY: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday positioned NDA as a credible alternative to Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu and called upon the people to support the alliance to bring transparent governance and faster development to the state.Speaking at the NDA rally in Trichy, Modi said the upcoming election was the most important election in…
GUWAHATI: PM Modi will launch the distribution of land deeds to thousands of tea workers in poll-bound Assam on March 13, giving them a stake in plantations where they have lived and worked for two centuries since British planters brought them from villages of Chotanagpur division, Bihar and Bengal.Nearly 3.5 lakh families across 825 tea…
NEW DELHI: Opposition’s resolution for the removal of Speaker Om Birla was defeated in Lok Sabha with a voice vote on Wednesday following a two-day discussion that concluded with home minister Amit Shah‘s fiery counterattack, which especially targeted Rahul Gandhi. Shah slammed the bid to put the chair’s “dignity” in the dock and asked opposition…
NEW DELHI: The joint opposition stepped up its attack on Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar as it gathered signatures from MPs to submit a notice this week to the secretariats of both Houses of Parliament to seek a motion for his removal. This is the first time a notice — will be given seeking the…
GUWAHATI: Suspected militants waylaid at least three vehicles passing by two tribal villages along Manipur’s Ukhrul-Imphal Road Wednesday and abducted 20 Naga men, women and children at gunpoint, potentially igniting a fresh ethnic firestorm in a state already scarred by the Meitei-Kuki conflict. Ukhrul-headquartered organisation Tangkhul Naga Long alleged mass abduction was handiwork of Kuki…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday directed CBI to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in MP’s Sagar district in 2024. It rejected the plea of the state that the case was politically motivated, and said the truth must come out.A bench of Justices M M…
NEW DELHI: Questioning CBI for filing a chargesheet against financial institution officials and builders, for allegedly cheating homebuy-ers, without custodial interrogation, Supreme Court on Wednesday told the agency that no one should be treated as above the law and asked it to complete the probe in a time-bound manner.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant…
