NEW DELHI: The home ministry Tuesday declined to share data on the fatalities and injured victims in the stampede at Maha Kumbh mela in Prayagraj, saying that such data is not maintained by the central government.Junior home minister Nityanand Rai, in reply to a question in Lok Sabha, shared that the organisation of religious congregations,…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his address on Maha Kumbh in the lower house of the Parliament.Rahul attacked PM Modi for not paying the condolences to people who lost their lives in the stampede in January during the recently concluded Maha Kumbh…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday witnessed heated protests from Congress members following a remark by BJP MP Sambit Patra about leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi.During a debate on supplementary demands for grants, excess grants, and the Manipur budget, Patra drew a comparison between cricket captain Rohit Sharma and Gandhi, citing a comment made…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee and members of the treasury benches had a heated exchange in Lok Sabha on Tuesday over the stoppage of MNREGA funds for West Bengal.During Question Hour, Banerjee said that the benefits of the MNREGA scheme were not reaching the state.“The constant stand by the ministry is 25…
NEW DELHI: Political parties and CAG reports have shared a hot and cold relationship in Indian politics over the decades. Interestingly, the two become quite inseparable when the elections approach. Delhi witnessed this recently when audit report of exorbitant spending on CM’s official residence, injected into public consciousness as ‘sheeshmahal’ scam, was one of the…
Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday accused the Trinamool Congress (TNC) administration of fostering systematic corruption and weakening governmental institutions.During her reply to the debate on Union Budget 2025-26 in the Lok Sabha she said, “It is ironical that Trinamool Congress, a party which prides itself on being…
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav during his Lok Sabha address NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav took a veiled dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his upcoming US visit, which comes just days after more than 100 illegal Indian immigrants were deported home by the Trump administration.Highlighting the last US visit when the…
Ah, another election, another flood of LinkedIn wisdom posts—where every poll result is a “case study,” every political leader is a “CEO,” and every campaign is an “MBA-level lesson in leadership.” Some call it democracy, but on LinkedIn, it’s all about business jargon and corporate analogies.So, let’s break this down the LinkedIn way. AAP: From…
Recalling the illustration that appeared in paper Modi described how it depicted an airplane—symbolizing grand ambitions—placed on a wooden cart being pushed by laborers. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while responding to the Motion of Thanks debate in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, invoked a famous RK Laxman cartoon that appeared in The Times…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party MP Nishikant Dubey moved a privilege motion against leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday while accusing him of “shamelessly distorted historical and substantive facts” during his speech in the Lok Sabha a day earlier.In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Dubey urged him to initiate privilege proceedings…
