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GUWAHATI: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Thursday expanded his ministry by inducting a first-time MLA Kishore Barman. Barman (45) was elected from the Nalchar constituency in Sepahijala district on a ticket of ruling BJP in the 2023 polls. With his induction, the cabinet has reached its full strength of 12. Governor Indra Sena Reddy Nallu administered the oath of office and secrecy to Barman at the Raj Bhavan. Saha, his council of ministers and senior government officials were present. ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): Noting that the Election Commission 'undermined' the basis of the democratic system in the last six months, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh accused that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the poll body will 'destroy' the country's democracy. Ramesh, who is also Congress' General Secretary in charge of Communications, drew a parallel between the demonetisation in 2016 and SIR by the Election Commission, stating that the PM's 'notebandi' destroyed our economy and t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): Noting that the Election Commission 'undermined' the basis of the democratic system in the last six months, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh accused that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by the poll body will 'destroy' the country's democracy. Ramesh, who is also Congress' General Secretary in charge of Communications, drew a parallel between the demonetisation in 2016 and SIR by the Election Commission, stating that the PM's 'notebandi' destroyed our economy and t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday met with representatives from various political parties to discuss concerns regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. The SIR aims to verify the eligibility of voters and ensure accurate electoral rolls ahead of the assembly elections expected to be held later this year. Representatives of 11 political parties met with the Election Commission, including Chief Election Commissi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament will be held from 21st July to 21st August, 2025, with a two-day intermission on 13th and 14th of August. Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, confirmed the revised schedule on Wednesday evening via a post, stating that the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, has approved the government's proposal to extend the session. Initially, the session was tentatively scheduled to conclude on 12 August. Rijiju stated, "The Hon'ble ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], July 1 (ANI): Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Sulochana Das on Tuesday strongly condemned the brutal assault on BMC Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo, saying that she felt unsafe in her workplace and demanded strict action against those involved. Some miscreants have allegedly assaulted Ratnakar Sahoo inside the office of the civic body during a grievance redressing meeting on Monday. While speaking to ANI, the Mayor said, 'What happened yesterd ...Read More >
Digvijaya Singh, a senior Congress leader, has threatened legal action by the INDIA bloc if the Election Commission of India (ECI) doesn't address their concerns regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar. Singh alleges the NDA government is attempting to disenfranchise marginalized voters ahead of the state elections through this drive.Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said all constituents of INDIA bloc may knock the door of judiciary against the ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 30 (ANI): Opposition parties in Odisha strongly condemned the assault on Ratnakar Sahoo, Additional Commissioner of the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC), and demanded strict action against the guilty. BJP leaders also condemned the incident, and the police assured that firm action would be taken. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) chief and former Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik expressed his deep shock at "brutal kicking and assault" of Ratnakar Sahoo and call ...Read More >
New Delhi: Dismissing Opposition's protest against Bihar's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Chief Election Commissioner of India (CEC) Mr Gyanesh Kumar on Monday said the objective of SIR is to ensure no voter is left out, and, at the same time also to see that no ineligible voter is included in the electoral roll. Justifying the move for SIR for which the electors have to provide any one of the listed 11 documents to prove their domicile, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said the SI ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 30: A political storm has ensued over the stirring remarks made by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, at the "Save Waqf, Save Constitution" rally in Patna, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and INDIA bloc leaders taking potshots at each other over 'using' the Waqf reforms as a ploy to win votes. The BJP called it a brazen attempt by the RJD-Congress-Left combine to 'influence' the election mood in the poll-bound state by fanning anti-Muslim sentiments, while the latter vowed to step up t ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A political storm has ensued over the stirring remarks made by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, at the "Save Waqf, Save Constitution" rally in Patna, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and INDIA bloc leaders taking potshots at each other over 'using' the Waqf reforms as a ploy to win votes. The BJP called it a brazen attempt by the RJD-Congress-Left combine to 'influence' the election mood in the poll-bound state by fanning anti-Muslim sentiments, while the latter v ...Read More >
Kolkata: A two-member National Commission for Women team on Sunday visited the south Kolkata law college where a student was allegedly gang-raped last week.The team, accompanied by a videographer, was initially denied entry and asked to produce a formal order. After an hour-long discussion at the college entrance, the team, led by Archana Majumdar, was allowed in under two conditions -- no access to the crime scene and no videography permitted.The visit lasted 10 minutes. "We were denied access ...Read More >
New Delhi: Playing on the remarks of iconic anti-Emergency politicians in his monthly radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday slammed the then Congress government for atrocities on people and said those who fought Emergency should always be remembered "to keep our Constitution strong and enduring". Speaking in his monthly radio broadcast "Mann ki Baat", Mr Modi said that those who imposed the Emergency not only "murdered" the Constitution but also made the judiciary their "puppe ...Read More >
Haridwar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj on Sunday demanded that hotel, dhaba and eatery owners on the Kanwar Yatra routes should display their names and identities on boards outside their business establishments. The owners, who hide their identities under fake names, on the Kanwar Yatra routes should not be spared, he told reporters here. "Tampering with faith of the Hindu devotees during the Kanwar Yatra will not be tolerated," said the Unnao MP. The food shops on the Kanwa ...Read More >
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Bengaluru Crime: A woman's body, believed to be between 30 and 35 years old, was found stuffed inside a sack and dumped in a garbage truck in Bengaluru early Thursday. The identity of the woman is yet to be confirmed. Police said the sack was discovered by BBMP sanitation workers who immediately alerted the authorities. The body was found with her hands and neck tied, raising strong suspicion of murder. Officials stated that the body had been placed inside a gunny bag before being thrown into t ...Read More >
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday announced that both government resolutions (GRs) related to the three-language formula, issued on April 16 and June 17, have been scrapped. The move comes amid growing political uproar and a massive protest march led by Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray earlier this month. Fadnavis said a new committee under the chairmanship of educationist and former Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Narendra Jadhav will be constituted to review the implementa ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Opposition parties in Maharashtra on Sunday decided to boycott the customary high tea event of the Fadnavis government on the eve of the Legislature's Monsoon Session, citing corruption, misuse of funds and the deterioration of the economic, social, administrative and moral situation. The opposition leaders alleged that not appointing the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state Assembly was a murder of the Constitution, and efforts are underway to curb democracy ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader Gellu Srinivas Yadav was arrested by Jubilee Hills police on Saturday, June 28, in connection with the vandalism at MAHAA TV office. At around 9:30 pm, Srinivas was picked up from Telangana Bhavan. Following the incident, five BRS workers were already detained by the police. Security has been tightened in the area following the development. MAHAA TV office in Jubilee Hills was attacked by the party workers, alleging that the news channel was sprea ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Raging controversy over the introduction of Hindi in Marathi and English schools from classes 1 to 5, the protests against the land acquisition for the Rs 86,300 crore Shaktipeeth Mahamarg, tabling of Public Security Act following the scrutiny of the joint select committee, damage caused to agriculture due to unseasonal rains and demand for from loan waiver are among the several issues which are going to be discussed during the three week monsoon session of Mahar ...Read More >
Bhopal, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Congress and BJP leaders, on Saturday, engaged in a political war of wards after an FIR was registered against the Madhya Pradesh Congress President Jitu Patwari for allegedly forcing two persons to make false claims against a local villager in Orchha earlier this week. A case against Patwari was registered at the Mungaoli police station in Ashoknagar district on Friday night, following the outcome of inquiry into an alleged incident of assault and forcibly ...Read More >
Nagpur: As Opposition parties continue to voice their objections against Maharashtra government's plan to introduce Hindi as a third language in schools, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SCP) leader Supriya Sule on Saturday affirmed the party's participation in the protest to be held on July 5, jointly organised by Maharasthra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena (UBT). Sule described language education as an "important social issue" and criticised the state government for what she termed as an "a ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government's push for a three-language policy in primary school education has witnessed intense resistance from the Opposition, which has now escalated with Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray preparing to hold a joint protest rally against the "imposition of Hindi" in the state on July 5. Here is a look at the genesis of language politics, and its fall-out. On April 16, the Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti govern ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The possibility of the Thackeray cousins reuniting before the local body elections, tentatively scheduled after October, got a renewed spurt of energy with the chiefs of Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray respectively, announcing a joint protest rally on July 5 in Mumbai against the ruling Mahayuti government's "imposition of Hindi" in primary schools from the 2025-26 academic session, as part of the union government's move to impleme ...Read More >
New Delhi: Several Opposition parties Friday denounced RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale's call to review the words 'socialist' and 'secular' in the Preamble, terming it a "deliberate assault" on the soul of the Constitution. The attack came a day after the RSS proposed reviewing the two words, saying they were included during the Emergency and were never part of the Constitution drafted by BR Ambedkar. While the Congress saw it as a "deliberate assault" on the soul of the Constitution ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: As the Union government is set to move an impeachment motion against Justice Yashwant Varma in the upcoming Monsoon session over 'burnt cash' controversy, the Opposition parties said they are yet to take call on signing the motion. A three-member committee set up by former Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna to probe allegations against Justice Varma has found "sufficient substance" in the corruption charges against him. Congress sources said the party will hold a meeting next week ...Read More >
Bhopal, June 7 (UNI) The Madhya Pradesh government's reported instruction to all treasury officers concerning the non-payment of salaries to 50,000 state employees over the past few months has prompted the Congress to hit out at the government over the issue. Sources said a State Financial Intelligence Cell (SFIC) is operating under the Commissioner of Treasury and Accounts Office, which analyses the treasury data at regular intervals and also monitors the salary withdrawal of employees. This c ...Read More >
New Delhi: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleging "rigging" in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections, which took place last year in October. Gandhi posted his opinion piece, titled ''Match-Fixing Maharashtra' published in The Indian Express. In the article, the Lok Sabha LoP wrote about how he felt that the assembly polls in Maharashtra were rigged. He alleged that the saffron party wi ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India] June 6 (ANI): Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi attended the 'Samvidhan Sabha' in Rajgir, Nalanda, on Friday. Addressing the gathering, Gandhi emphasised the need for a caste census and criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stance on the issue. He questioned PM Modi's claim of being an OBC while asserting that the BJP denies the existence of caste in India, emphasising the need for a genuine caste census. 'Narendra Modi used to say in ever ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 6 (PTI) The government on Friday launched the UMEED portal that would create a digital inventory after geo-tagging of all Waqf properties with Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju calling it a historic step that would ensure that community-owned Waqf assets are utilised effectively and fairly for poor Muslims. The UMEED central portal, short for Unified Waqf Management, Empowerment, Efficiency and Development Act, 1995 will serve as a centralised digital platform for real-time ...Read More >
New Delhi: After Shashi Tharoor, who recently hit back at those who politically criticised his conduct as a delegate of the Indian outreach mission, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Monday asked "is it difficult to be patriotic?" in a passionate disapproval of the partisan criticism from the domestic political gallery of his spirited support of India's Operation Sindoor against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and his defence of the state of affairs in J&K after the abrogation of Article 37 ...Read More >
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