Month: April 2022

The CWC this time decided to implement the digital membership drive in addition to the standard paper membership process for the period 2022-2027. The Congress has added 2.6 crore new members in its digital membership drive that ended on Friday, with party chief Sonia Gandhi enrolling herself as part of the initiative Former prime minister Manmohan Singh became a digital member of the party on Thursday while former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was one of the first leaders to be enrolled as a digital member on the first day of…

The ruling AAP government in Punjab has announced 300 units of free electricity from July 1, after completing a month of governance in the state. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab has announced 300 units of free electricity from July 1, on completion of one month of the Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led government in the state. During a press conference in Jalandhar on Thursday, Mann said, “On the 16th we will give great news to the people of Punjab.” Mann met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday…

Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday while inaugurating a charitable hospital in the Sinhagad area in Pune that he once told industrialist Ratan Tata that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) doesn’t discriminate based on religion. He recounted a story from when he was a minister in the Shiv Sena-BJP government in Maharashtra. “A hospital named for late RSS chief K B Hedgewar was being inaugurated in Aurangabad. I was a minister in the state government then. A senior RSS functionary expressed wish that the hospital be inaugurated by Ratan…

Former Maharashtra chief minister and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Friday slammedNationalist Congress Party chief (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar over his comments on the film ‘The Kashmir Files’ and alleged that the latter criticized the film as it did not suit his “political agenda of appeasement”. In a series of tweets, the former chief minister dug up past NCP’s statements and alleged that the party’s statements had been “in line with NCP’s decades-old track record of appeasement policy & politics and polarising the society on a communal…

The Arvind Kejriwal government on Friday will issue COVID-19 guidelines for schools amid concerns over the rise in coronavirus cases in the national capital. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia made the statement on Thursday after a teacher and a student of a private school in South Delhi were found COVID-19 positive, following which, other students who were in the same class were sent home. It assumes importance as the schools started to function fully offline from April 1 after all the curbs related to COVID were lifted on February 28…

The Gujarat Congress working President on Thursday took to Twitter to say that he was not vying for a position in the party but was hungry for work and wanted the best for the party. Amidst speculation about Hardik Patel leaving Congress, the Gujarat Congress working President on Thursday announced that he was not vying for a position in the party but was hungry for work. Hardik Patel took to Twitter to clear the air after he lashed out at his own party and praised the BJP for doing good…

The Union Minister for Law and Justice on Thursday inaugurated the new premises of Jammu and Kashmir International Arbitration Centre (JKIAC) saying that the Centre will provide all ‘possible help and resources’ to the judiciary to improve infrastructure and augment manpower. Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju on Thursday inaugurated the new premises of the Jammu and Kashmir International Arbitration Centre (JKIAC) here, an official spokesman said. The centre has been built in the Old Sadder Court Complex at Lal Chowk. Chief Justice of the High Court of…