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New Delhi: The second match of the five-match Test series between India and England will be played at Edgbaston in Birmingham. It will start on July 2. In this Test, Shubman Gill has a chance to create history. Actually, the Indian team has not been able to win on this ground so far. Team India played the first match on this ground in 1967. Be it Virat Kohli or Dhoni or Dravid or Sourav Ganguly, no Indian captain has won here in 58 years. However, Gill will have a chance to get his name register ...Read More >
Srinagar, Jun 26 (PTI) The Congress on Thursday said it would intensify its struggle to press for the restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir. Addressing a press conference at the party office here, Syed Naseer Hussain, All India Congress Committee General Secretary In-charge of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh Affairs, lashed out at the BJP-led Central government for "delay" in granting statehood to the Union Territory, after committing it in Parliament and before the Supreme Court. Hussain ...Read More >
Guwahati: The new generation of AGP leaders, who have come up after the Assam Agitation, yet again failed to secure nomination for the lone Rajya Sabha seat.On Saturday night, AGP again nominated party veteran and outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Birendra Prasad Baishya as its candidate for election to the upper house, which will be held for two seats on June 19, after Baishya (AGP) and Mission Ranjan Das (BJP) complete their respective terms on June 14.AGP president Atul Borah on Sunday said the Rajya S ...Read More >
Guwahati, Jun 8 (PTI) The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has renominated its outgoing MP Birendra Prasad Baishya for Rajya Sabha elections in Assam, a party leader said. Baishya's name was announced as per a decision of the central committee of the party late on Saturday, its general secretary Ponakon Baruah said. Elections to two seats in the upper house of parliament from Assam are scheduled on June 19, and the counting of votes will take place on the same day. Baishya, a former Union minister, h ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], June 8 (ANI): The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) announced Birendra Prasad Baishya as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Assam. Baishya is currently serving as a member of the Rajya Sabha, with his tenure set to expire on June 14. Also Read | Indore Horror: Dog Carries Baby Girl's Body in Its Jaws at Madhya Pradesh Hospital, Mutilated Body of Newborn Recovered, Probe On. Earlier this week, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced th ...Read More >
Pudukkottai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader H. Raja criticised Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) President chief Kamal Haasan, saying that the actor-turned-politician has 'mortgaged' his party in exchange for a Rajya Sabha seat. The BJP leader stated that the MNM chief, who used to oppose the DMK's freebies and corrupt rule, has 'mortgaged' his torchlight election symbol to the DMK in exchange for a Rajya Sabha seat. He even claimed that the actor has said to nev ...Read More >
GUWAHATI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has nominated Kanad Purkayastha, son of former Union Minister Kabindra Purkayastha, for one of the two Rajya Sabha seats from Assam that will fall vacant on June 14. Mr. Kanad Purkayastha, a secretary of the BJP's Assam unit, is the son of Kabindra Purkayastha, a founding leader of the party in the State during the 1990s who served as Minister of State in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance government. The BJP's national general ...Read More >
Guwahati, June 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) The BJP on Saturday announced that the party's Assam state secretary Kanad Purkayastha would be its candidate for the June 19 Rajya Sabha election from the state. BJP's National General Secretary Arun Singh, in a statement, said the party's central election committee has approved the candidature of Purkayastha, who is currently the party's Assam state secretary. A party leader from southern Assam's Barak valley said that Purkayastha is the only son of veteran B ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday officially announced Kanad Purkayastha, the party's Assam state secretary, as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from the state. The party's central election committee approved Purkayastha's candidature for the polls scheduled for June 19, with vote counting also taking place on the same day. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! Kanad Purkayastha, a prominent party leader from t ...Read More >
Chennai, Jun 6 (PTI) Three nominees of the ruling DMK, main opposition AIADMK's two candidates and Makkal Needhi Maiam President and top actor Kamal Haasan on Friday filed nomination papers to contest for the June 19 biennial polls to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu. In the presence of Chief Minister M K Stalin, Haasan signed and presented the papers to Returning Officer and Additional Secretary (Legislative Assembly), B Subramaniyam at the Secretariat here. Led by AIADMK general secretary, Ed ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 6 (PTI) Congress veteran and former president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Thennala Balakrishna Pillai, known for his gentlemanly demeanour, simplicity and concensus-oriented leadership, died at a private hospital here on Friday, following age-related ailments, party sources said. He was 95. Pillai, who had been away from active politics for some years, was a two-time MLA and three-time Rajya Sabha MP. He also served as the president of the KPCC in tw ...Read More >
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 6 (ANI): Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) President and Actor Kamal Haasan filed his nomination for Rajya Sabha at the Tamil Nadu secretariat in the presence of DMK President and state Chief Minister MK Stalin and his Deputy Udhayanidhi Stalin. DMK allies, VCK leader Thirumavalavan, MDMK leader Vaiko, and Tamil Nadu Congress President Selvaperundagai were also present. With DMK allocating one Rajya Sabha seat to Makkal Needhi Maiyam, its founder and actor Kamal Haas ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) The BJP on Thursday alleged that Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had been reduced to a puppet by AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and that his former Delhi counterpart had made the state into his fiefdom. BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh alleged that Mann had in effect mortgaged Punjab to Kejriwal's team. He claimed that leaders with alleged criminal backgrounds, a reference to Kejriwal and his close ally Manish Sisodia, both of whom are accused in the Delhi exc ...Read More >
Chennai, My 28 (UNI) The ruling DMK on Wednesday announced its candidates for the June 19 biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from Tamil Nadu to fll up six seats, by allotting one seat to its ally actor-politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) Founder Kamal Haasan who is all set to enter Parliament for the first time. The DMK, which could win easily four seats in the 234-member Assembly, will contest three seats. The Opposition AIADMK, with 66 members (including four from the rebel camp ...Read More >
Chennai, May 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Communist Party of India (CPI) on Wednesday extended its warm greetings to the candidates announced by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections scheduled to be held on June 19. In a statement, CPI Tamil Nadu State Secretary R. Mutharasan welcomed the nominations made by the DMK, a key ally in the INDIA Bloc, and lauded the coalition's commitment to democratic ideals and inclusive representat ...Read More >
Kanpur: A freight train rammed into a stationary goods train in Uttar Pradesh's Fatehpur district on Tuesday, February 4, leaving a loco pilot injured and causing the derailment of the guard coach and engine. The incident took place around 6 am in the dedicated freight corridor near Pambhirpur, Khaga in Fatehpur district. The loco pilot, who sustained injuries, had allegedly fallen asleep at the wheel, Prem Kumar Gautam, IG, Prayagraj range, said. Rescue operations are underway to clear the c ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) The Rajya Sabha was on Wednesday rocked by protests from Opposition members who demanded an apology from Union Home Minister Amit Shah, claiming his remarks in the House a day earlier were an "insult" to the architect of India's Constitution B R Ambedkar. Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju accused the Congress of misleading the country by using only a part of Shah's remarks made in the Rajya Sabha and asserted that the Home Minister had in very clear w ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 18 (PTI) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the country will not tolerate Babasaheb Ambedkar's insult and demanded that Home Minister Amit Shah should apologise for his remarks in the Rajya Sabha. Several MPs of the INDIA bloc, including Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest in Parliament premises demanding Shah's apology for his remarks which they claimed were an insult to B R Ambedkar. Sharing pictures from the ...Read More >
MUMBAI/LUCKNOW: Backing the call for a uniform civil code in India, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath quoted on Sunday a recent statement by Allahabad HC judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav at an event in Mumbai to assert that "majority sentiments are respected globally". Speaking at a the World Hindu Economic Forum-2024 event in Mumbai, the CM attacked the Congress-headed opposition, saying that by the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code the difference between majority and minority communities needs ...Read More >
NDIA bloc leaders, who submitted a notice of no-confidence motion against the Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday, blamed the chair for not allowing them to speak in the Rajya Sabha. The leaders held a joint press conference labelling several charges against the chairman. "His behaviour (RS chairman) has damaged the dignity of the country. He has brought such a situation in the history of parliamentary democracy that we had to bring this notice for the resolution (of no confidenc ...Read More >
Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha and Union minister JP Nadda on Thursday said that the Chair should not be questioned or criticised about admissibility, calling it contempt of the House and Chairman. He also condemned Mallikarjun Kharge for criticising the Chair in a press conference the day before, calling it wrong. "The Chair cannot be questioned with regard to admissibility or for any other purposes. The Chairman's ruling cannot be questioned or criticised; to do so is contempt of the Hou ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Thursday afternoon amid disruptions as the members of the treasury and opposition benches traded charges over a no-trust motion brought against Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and the BJP's allegations of the Congress leadership's "links" with billionaire investor George Soros. The Upper House has been witnessing a ruckus as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been alleging links between the Congress and Soros, and has also slam ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 12 (PTI) Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Thursday afternoon amid disruptions as the members of the treasury and opposition benches traded charges over a no-trust motion brought against Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and the BJP's allegations of the Congress leadership's "links" with billionaire investor George Soros. The Upper House has been witnessing a ruckus as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been alleging links between the Congress and Soros, and ...Read More >
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju highlighted Vice President Dhankhar's impartiality and professionalism, lauding his achievements. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju strongly criticised the opposition INDIA bloc's move to submit a notice for the removal of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday, calling the action "extremely regrettable". Speaking to reporters in the capital, Rijiju expressed confidence that the notice would be rejected by the Rajya Sabha, asserting tha ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 12 (UNI) Amid massive showdown between the Opposition and ruling party members, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday could barely function and was adjourned for the day after it re-convened post-lunch hour. The Upper House was first adjourned till 2 PM as confrontation between the Opposition and Treasury bench members continued. When the House met again at 2 PM, the protests continued. While Dhankhar was in the Chair, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) Mallikarjun Kharge protested against th ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 12 (PTI) Trinamool Congress' Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose on Thursday submitted a privilege motion notice against Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju for making a derogatory remark against opposition leaders in the Upper House. The notice has been signed by 60 leaders from opposition parties, a source said. "Yesterday in the house, addressing the opposition, Mr. Rijiju said you all are not worthy of being in this house... The Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Kire ...Read More >
TDP has fielded Beeda Mastan Rao and Sana Satish Babu, while the BJP has picked R. Krishnaiah Telugu Desam Party (TDP) candidates for Rajya Sabha bypolls Beeda Mastan Rao and Sana Satish Babu, and BJP candidate R. Krishnaiah filed their nominations at the Assembly building on December 10 (Tuesday). The nomination papers were submitted to Returning Officer R. Vanitha Rani. Andhra Pradesh Ministers Nandendla Manohar, Kollu Ravindra, Anagani Satya Prasad, Satya Kumar Yadav, K. Atchannaidu, P. Nar ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha is poised for a stormy session on Wednesday as the INDIA bloc has submitted a notice to bring a motion to remove Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar from his role as the Chairman of the Upper House. The opposition has accused Dhankhar of "partisan" conduct, a move that intensifies the escalating tensions in Parliament. The notice, submitted on Tuesday, was spearheaded by Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Naseer Hussain and signed by 60 MPs from opposition parties, includ ...Read More >
New Delhi, December 11: The proceedings in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday may witness chaos as the INDIA bloc has submitted a notice to bring a motion for removing House Chairman Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. The opposition bloc has accused Dhankhar of "partisan" conduct as the chairman of the Upper House and submitted the notice for motion on Tuesday. The move, spearheaded by the Congress, comes in the wake of verbal clashes between opposition parties and RS Chairman Dhankhar. If the motion i ...Read More >
Agartala (Tripura) [India], December 10 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Tripura on December 20 as the state will host the 72nd Plenary Session of the North Eastern Council (NEC) on December 20-21, said Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha. It is the first time that Tripura will host a Plenary Session of the North Eastern Council (NEC). Also Read | Morena: Former Serviceman Shoots Wife, Tries To Kill His 2 Sons Before Turning Pistol on Himself After Dispute in Madhya Pradesh; Probe ...Read More >
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