‘Gau Satyagrah’ (Photo: INC Chhattisgarh X handle) RAIPUR: All in the name of the cow, the Chhattisgarh Congress staged a quirky ‘Gau Satyagrah’, during which stray cattle were delivered to district and SDM offices to highlight the growing menace of stray cows—a problem the party claims it managed better during its previous tenure. By reclaiming…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the first big electoral faceoff between the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led INDIA bloc after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with the Election Commission on Friday announcing dates for assembly elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.The BJP has a lot at stake, especially in Haryana, where it…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the Left and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of collaborating to create unrest in the state. This accusation came after vandalism at RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday night, where a mob caused damage to the protest site, vehicles, and public property. Banerjee claimed…
KOLKATA: Bengal braced for a tense Friday with a shutdown-like scenario as CM Mamata Banerjee‘s Trinamool Congress and opposition parties BJP and CPM announced separate protests focused on RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the rape and murder of a postgraduate resident doctor on Aug 9 has triggered national outrage.BJP and CPM condemned the…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the opposition parties of orchestrating vandalism at RG Kar College and Hospital in Kolkata.“The people who vandalised RG Kar Hospital yesterday and created this ruckus are not connected to the student movement of RG Kar Medical College, they are outsiders, I have seen as…
NEW DELHI: Jagdambika Pal, a senior BJP Lok Sabha member, has been appointed the chairperson of the joint committee of Parliament that will examine the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, according to a Lok Sabha notification issued on Tuesday. The official notification said Speaker Om Birla named Pal the head of the 31-member committee. The government…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a scathing attack on Tuesday against the Congress and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and accused them of shielding criminals and displaying insensitivity toward victims of serious crimes in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP’s criticisms came in response to allegations involving party members in two separate incidents of sexual…
NEW DELHI: Amid a political slugfest over the latest Hindenburg report, Dalal Street discounted the short-seller’s charges against Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband Dhaval Buch and their alleged links with the Adani probe, closing 57 points lower in volatile trade.Unlike Jan 2023, when the report on Adani group severely eroded the conglomerate’s…
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP netas have held detailed consultations on the party’s future course and who should succeed J P Nadda whose extended tenure as president has also ended.Although details of the five-hour meeting held at the residence of defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday were not available, sources said there was a thorough discussion…
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday hit back with a cricketing analogy of its own, a day after Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi‘s “umpire is compromised” remark against the Centre following the new Hindenburg Research report which has claimed that Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch had stakes in “obscure offshore entities” that are allegedly involved…
