‘Don’t do all this’: For Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal’s warning to supporters amid cabinet exclusion row | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: NCP veteran politician Chhagan Bhujbal, who is unhappy after being overlooked for a cabinet berth in the newly sworn-in Fadnavis government, appealed to his supporters to express their discontent in a “civil” manner rather than resorting to derogatory actions against deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.The response came after various OBC organisations and activists…

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Watch: Congress MLAs protest with tea kettles in Madhya Pradesh assembly over unemployment | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh Congress on Wednesday upped the ante against the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government by staging protest led by leader of opposition Umang Singhar, who carried a tea kettle to the Assembly premises. He said that the gesture was intended to highlight rising unemployment and in what he alleged was…

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Supreme Court collegium ticks off HC judge Shekhar Kumar Yadav for his speech at VHP event | India News – Times of India

Allahabad High Court Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav. NEW DELHI: A five-judge Supreme Court collegium led by CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday ticked off Allahabad high court’s Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav for his controversial speech at a VHP event and counselled him to maintain dignity of the constitutional post he holds and exercise caution while delivering…

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NTA will hold only entrance exams, not job tests: Dharmendra Pradhan | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: National Test Agency will conduct only competitive entrance tests for admission into educational institutions from next year and won’t hold any recruitment exams, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said Tuesday. He also said that education and health ministries are deliberating on whether to conduct the medical entrance exam NEET-UG in pen-and-paper mode or…

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Uddhav Thackeray calls on Devendra Fadnavis, seeks Bharat Ratna for Veer Savarkar | India News – Times of India

BJP and Congress should move beyond debates over Nehru and Savarkar, and focus on growth issues, Uddhav Thackeray said. NAGPUR: In his bid to reclaim the hardline Hindutva turf after being accused of abandoning the party’s core ideology, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday questioned BJP on why the nation’s highest civilian honour,…

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‘565 children injured or killed by bombs used by political activists in West Bengal since 1996’ | India News – Times of India

Screenshot from the documentary. LONDON: Children maimed by crude bombs used by political activists during election campaigns in West Bengal have appeared in a BBC documentary, “Children of the Bombs”, broadcast on Tuesday which reveals that at least 565 children have been killed, maimed or injured by such bombs in West Bengal since 1996 when…

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‘Bundle of lies’: Congress slams Union minister Amit Shah over his remarks in Rajya Sabha | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Congress called Union minister Amit Shah‘s speech in the Rajya Sabha “bundle of lies” and said he came to the Parliament to praise PM Modi. On Tuesday, Amit Shah addressed the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India. While speaking at the Rajya…

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