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The Madhya Pradesh assembly secretariat on Thursday terminated the membership of Congress legislator Rajendra Bharti within hours of a Delhi court sentencing him to three years in jail in a fraud case, triggering sharp protests from the state Congress. The assembly secretariat started working on the disqualification order after principal secretary Arvind Sharma returned to the secretariat late on Thursday night. The Congress asked why the assembly secretariat could not wait for the next workin ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 3 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari on Friday strongly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the disqualification of the party's Datia MLA Rajendra Bharti following his conviction by a Delhi court, alleging that the move reflects an erosion of democratic values in the country. The state assembly secretariat issued a notification on Thursday, stating that Bharti, who was elected from the Datia constituency, has been disqualifi ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], April 3 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari on Friday strongly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the disqualification of the party's Datia MLA Rajendra Bharti following his conviction by a Delhi court, alleging that the move reflects an erosion of democratic values in the country. The state assembly secretariat issued a notification on Thursday, stating that Bharti, who was elected from the Datia constituency, has been disqualifi ...Read More >
Agartala (Tripura) [India], April 3 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha criticised the Tipra Motha Party, accusing it of misleading people through slogans such as "Thansa", "Greater Tipraland" and "Puila Jati", and attempting to gain political mileage by exploiting communal sentiments. Addressing a gathering at Kunjaram Para in Paharpur under the Natunbazar-Malbasa constituency ahead of the ADC elections on Friday, Saha alleged that the party was confusing the public with inconsistent posi ...Read More >
Agartala (Tripura) [India], April 3 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha criticised the Tipra Motha Party, accusing it of misleading people through slogans such as "Thansa", "Greater Tipraland" and "Puila Jati", and attempting to gain political mileage by exploiting communal sentiments. Addressing a gathering at Kunjaram Para in Paharpur under the Natunbazar-Malbasa constituency ahead of the ADC elections on Friday, Saha alleged that the party was confusing the public with inconsistent posi ...Read More >
Agartala, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, on Thursday, criticised the Tipra Motha Party (TMP), accusing it of misleading the people with slogans such as "Thansa", "Greater Tipraland", and "Puila Jati". The tribal-based TMP, led by former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Debbarma, is an ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Addressing a gathering at Kunjaram Para in Paharpur under the Natunbazar-Malbasa constituency in Gomati district ahead of the Tripur ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Monday that Naxalism did not spread in the country due to poverty, but there was poverty in the concerned areas because of Left Wing Extremism. Replying to the debate in Lok Sabha on efforts to free the country from Left Wing Extremism, Amit Shah said Naxalism has been almost eradicated from Bastar and the people of the region were left behind in development parameters as "the shadow of Red Terror loomed". "The root cause ...Read More >
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], November 3 (ANI): Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Spokesperson Veera Vignesh on Monday termed DMK as his party's political enemy and the BJP as its ideological enemy. He said that his party is opposed to conducting the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls in the State. However, he added that the DMK government convened an all-party meeting to discuss SIR, aiming to distract people from its "corruption." "Do you think yesterday's meeting was just an 'all ...Read More >
Agartala (Tripura) [India], October 26 (ANI): Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha attended the Karyakarta Conference organised by the Mandwai Mandal on Saturday. On this occasion, Dr. Saha welcomed 339 voters from 109 families into the BJP. During the conference, he remarked that politics cannot be done by the force of muscle and communal provocation. He stated that the current government is trying to work for the welfare of the people in the janajati areas, and the Bharatiya Janata Party is work ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 3 (ANI): Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday launched a scathing attack on Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi over his statement in Colombia, saying that no patriotic citizens should criticise their country outside their own country. Sharpening his attacks, Singh further said tarnishing one's country's reputation in the world is a "crime" against the country. Addressing the reporters here, the Union Minister said, "No patriotic citizen, irrespectiv ...Read More >
Kolkata, Sep 16 (PTI) Economist and former CPI(M) leader Prasenjit Bose joined the Congress during a programme in the metropolis, and asserted that he would support the party in its fight to "save the Constitution". Bose (51) became a part of the Congress at a formal joining ceremony here on Monday in the presence of party leaders Ghulam Ahmad Mir, Syed Naseer Hussain and Kanhaiya Kumar, besides state unit president Subhankar Sarkar. "We have to protect the Constitution, establish a government ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Sep 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Monday that the protection of the Constitution is the responsibility of every citizen, and this duty must be diligently performed by everyone. He added that the protection of democracy is essential for the safety of the people of the country. He further appealed people not to allow electoral fraud. He spoke at the International Democracy Day celebration organised by the State Social Welfare Department at the Banq ...Read More >
Cloudburst in Dehradun News: Dehradun experienced cloudbursts in Sahastradhara, leading to swollen rivers and damaged shops. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami reported rescue operations by police and SDRF. In Rishikesh, the Chandrabhaga river overflowed due to heavy rainfall, flooding the highway and trapping vehicles. SDRF successfully rescued three people stranded in the river, ensuring their safety. The local administration is monitoring the situation. ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Monday said that the 'My Vote My Right' campaign has been designed to create awareness about democratic values and develop leadership skills among youth and students. Speaking at the International Day of Democracy at Vidhana Soudha, he said, "Ballot is stronger than bullet. The monarchy is sitting at home today and the elected representatives are governing. That is the power of the ballot. It is this voting power that gave rise to leaders like S ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 14: Nepal's newly-appointed interim prime minister Sushila Karki has said she will serve in office for no longer than six months, pledging to hand power to a new government after elections scheduled for 5 March next year. "I did not wish for this job. It was after voices from the streets that I was compelled to accept," Karki told reporters in her first public remarks since being sworn in on Friday, according to the BBC. She stressed that her priority was to respond to the deman ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Calm returned to Nepal with the swearing in of a new interim Prime Minister, Shushila Karki, who is also the former Chief Justice of the country. Violent protests had broken out in Nepal following an agitation by Gen Z, which eventually led to Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and dozens of ministers resigning. Many had expected the crisis to drag on, but there was a firm message from President Ramchandra Paudel and Nepal's army chief, General Ashok Raj Sigdel. T ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Protesters in Nepal ousted the prime minister and set parliament ablaze over the government's ban on social media and corruption allegations, but in India the violence is being misrepresented online as something else entirely: a religious uprising. While some claim that the demonstrations are a demand for a "Hindu state", others say the opposite -- that they are an attack on the faith. Fuelling the narrative are allegations from Indian broadcasters and politicians that rioters vanda ...Read More >
Sushila Karki, former chief justice of Nepal and a likely frontrunner for the country's interim premiership, has drawn attention for her husband's role in a plane hijacking 52 years ago. Ms Karki is married to Durga Prasad Subedi, a former youth leader of the Nepali Congress, whom she reportedly met while studying at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi. Mr Subedi was reporterdly part of Nepal's first plane hijacking on June 10, 1973. On board the plane was Hindi film actress Mala Sinha. ...Read More >
VARANASI: Nepal's first woman PM (of an interim govt), Sushila Karki, has an MA in political science from Banaras Hindu University in 1975, and a husband from the same university who carried out Nepal's first hijacking. Durga Prasad Subedi, the husband, was one of three men who commandeered a Royal Nepal Airlines de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft in 1973 that had Bollywood star Mala Sinha among the passengers. Speaking fondly of Karki (73), Prof Dipak Malik, a retired BHU professor and form ...Read More >
Jamnagar, Sep 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nepali community members living in Jamnagar, Gujarat have expressed growing concern over the current situation in Nepal. While they welcome the corrupt leaders being exposed, they are deeply worried about the ongoing violence and reports of innocent lives being lost. A bus carrying Nepalese citizens on Friday departed from Jamnagar and is expected to reach the Nepal border in three days. These individuals, who had been living in Jamnagar for the past year and a ...Read More >
New Delhi, September 12: Ending days of political uncertainty and unrest in Nepal, President Ram Chandra Poudel on Friday appointed former Supreme Court Chief Justice Sushila Karki as the country's interim Prime Minister. The move came after the fall of K P Sharma Oli's government, which collapsed following violent protests triggered by a controversial social media ban and allegations of corruption. The appointment of Karki, 73, marks a historic moment as she becomes Nepal's first woman prime mi ...Read More >
Recent years have witnessed significant political upheaval in India's neighboring countries. Economic collapse in Sri Lanka, student-led protests in Bangladesh, and social media ban-related unrest in Nepal led to the ousting of sitting leaders. In the last three years, three of India's neighbours have seen mass street movements that removed sitting leaders. Sri Lanka's economic collapse in July 2022 forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down and flee the country. In Bangladesh, widespread ...Read More >
New Delhi (AsiaNews) - Nepal is India's third neighbour to see a youth-led uprising successfully overthrow the country's government. The first one was in Sri Lanka in 2022 and the second in Bangladesh in 2024. For New Delhi there is an added concern since the Himalayan country borders China's Western Theatre Command, which represents a direct route to the Indo-Gangetic plains. India and Nepal share an open border of more than 1,750 kilometres, and ties between their peoples run deep, with some ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 14: A political storm erupted on Monday after authorities prevented Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah from visiting the Martyrs' Graveyard in Srinagar's Naqashband Sahib area. Leaders from across the political spectrum condemned the move as an attack on democratic rights and federal values. West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee expressed her outrage on X (formerly Twitter), calling the incident "unacceptable", "shocking", and " ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jun 28 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed on Saturday that 'socialism' and 'secularism' are "Western concepts", and these words should be struck off the Constitution. He said these words were included in the Preamble of the Constitution by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi when the country was under Emergency rule, and these have no place in the Indian civilisation. "How can I be secular? I am a hardcore Hindu. A Muslim person is a hardcore Muslim person. How ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Thursday took strong action against the police officers allegedly responsible for the Bengaluru stampede, suspending several high-ranking officials, including the city's police commissioner. Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also announced a one-man commission to probe the lapses that triggered the deadly stampede. "Cubbon Park Police Station police inspector, station house master, station house officer, ACP, Central Division DCP, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he had fired the head of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. "Upon the request and recommendation of many people, I am hereby terminating the employment of Kim Sajet as Director of the National Portrait Gallery," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "She is a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI, which is totally inappropriate for her position. Her replacement will be named shortly." There is no reason to d ...Read More >
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