NEW DELHI: Vying for a third straight term amid major losses in recent Lok Sabha polls and the possibility of anti-incumbency, BJP’s central election committee (CEC) meeting took place on Thursday to finalise candidates for the single-phase Haryana assembly polls.Sources said there is a possibility of sitting MLAs, including ministers, being culled based on several…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked all ministers and top officials to “inform” people about decisions taken by govt to counter “false narratives”, while urging them to expedite decision making at all levels.“The PM said while the govt has taken several important decisions to transform the lives of common man and people from…
NEW DELHI: Deputy leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi has written to Speaker Om Birla expressing concern “about the deteriorating standards of parliamentary conduct” in the House. He has alleged that “often it is the ministers of govt themselves who make unparliamentary, objectionable and threatening remarks against members of opposition parties”.While asserting that…
NEW DELHI: In the first lot of official accommodation for ministers in the Lutyens’ Delhi, four cabinet ministers from BJP allies have been allotted bungalows falling under the biggest category of type-VIII.While civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu from TDP has been allotted 22, Akbar Road, heavy industries minister H D Kumaraswamy from JD(S)…
NEW DELHI: 28 of 71 (39%) ministers that are a part of the newly sworn-in PM Narendra Modi‘s cabinet have declared criminal cases against them, according to a report by Association of Democratic Reforms. Of these 19 (27%) of them have charges of serious crimes against them including murders and crimes against women.BJP’s West Bengal…
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi was, on Sunday, sworn in as prime minister for the third time, equalling Jawaharlal Nehru’s record of three straight terms in the top office.With 71 members, his latest team is bigger than the previous two, and, contrary to speculations, he had little difficulty in putting the council of ministers, despitre leading…
NEW DELHI: After poor BJP show in Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Yogi Adityanath held a meeting of the council of ministers on Saturday and asked them to shun VIP culture and prioritise the needs of the people. He instructed the ministers to visit people and indulge in “dialogue, coordination and sensitivity (samvaad, samanvay, samvedansheelta)”.He emphasised…
HYDERABAD: Khammam, which was just another Telangana parliamentary constituency, became the most prestigious seat after the state Congress leadership passed resolutions urging Sonia Gandhi, later Rahul Gandhi and finally Priyanka Gandhi to contest from here.While none of the Gandhis accepted the proposal, the seat became the most sought after in Telangana with three strong ministers…
