Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Raja Iqbal Singh on Friday was elected as the new mayor of Delhi. Raja Iqbal Singh secured a comfortable victory by bagging 133 votes of the 142 total votes. While the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) boycotted the mayoral election, citing alleged defections engineered by the BJP, the Congress candidate Mandeep,…
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that the National Herald, launched in 1937, was “never the personal property of the Nehru family.” He said, “The newspaper, which was supposed to strengthen the voice of the people fighting for independence, they turned that newspaper into a private business, an ATM!” Ravi…
āThe INC and its leadership will not be silenced. Satyameva Jayate.ā, a resolute Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh popsted on X after Enforcement Directorate filed a chargesheet against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others on charges of money laundering in the National Herald case. The chargesheet also names Congress leader Sam Pitroda and Suman…
Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and several other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were detained on Thursday during a protest against the Congress-led Karnataka government’s policies. The opposition BJP had launched state-wide protests on Wednesday against the Karnataka government, alleging that it “failed” to contain rising prices. In Bengaluru, BJP state president BY Vijayendra…
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has questioned the Narendra Modi government’s move to ābulldozeā the proclamation on President’s Rule in Manipur on Wednesday night, leaving just an hour for debate.Ā Ramesh also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his Thailand visit while āignoringā Manipur. āFrequent Flier flies off again. This time it is to Bangkok. Look…
Waqf Amendment Bill: The Catholics Bishop Conference of India on Monday released an official statement seeking āpermanent resolutionā to the long-standing land disputes within the proposed amendments to the Waqf Law. āAs the Waqf Amendment Bill is set to be introduced in Parliament, CBCI urges political parties and legislators to adopt an unbiased and constructive…
The Congress on Monday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came up with a ācompletely fakeā issue to get Parliament adjourned and divert attention from the very serious matter of Delhi High Court Justice Yashwant Varma’s conduct. The BJP members in the Lok Sabha raised the issue of reservation for Muslims in government contracts…
Budget 2025: BJP issues three-line whip for all Lok Sabha MPs, asking them to be present in Lok Sabha tomorrow, 21 March, for the passing of the budget. Further Lok Sabha has announced that the parliament will apply guillotine tomorrow. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had in March 2023 applied guillotine to clear the Budget…
Is everything wellāor not so wellābetween the Congress and its MP from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor? The erudite Congress MP has now praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second time since February. On Tuesday, at the Raisina Dialogue 2025, Tharoor admitted he was left with āegg on his faceā for criticising Indiaās stance on the…
In the Madras of the time, what The Hindu said was the word to us. And the Bofors scandal was the newspaperās biggest story. It implied that the top echelons of the Congress, including Rajiv Gandhi, may have accepted a bribe to buy guns made by the Swedish company Bofors, once a steel-maker that was…
