Month: June 2022

Odisha Congress on Thursday staged a dharna to protest against the ED’s repeated questioning of Rahul Gandhi. Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee led by PCC Chief Sarat Pattnayak along with other senior leaders held a demonstration in front of Raj Bhawan on Thursday protesting against the ED’s repeated questioning of Rahul Gandhi and alleged police excess at the party headquarters in the national capital. Taking to India Today, PCC Chief Sarat Pattnayak claimed that the manner in which Delhi police had forcibly entered the Indian National Congress headquarters at 24 Akbar…

Protests continue across several cities in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh as army aspirants took to the streets against the Centre’s Agnipath army recruitment scheme over pensions and security after the completion of four years. Here’s what we know so far. Violent protests in Bihar and several other states over the Centre’s Agnipath army recruitment scheme left vehicles vandalised and trains burnt on Thursday. Later in the day, the government addressed the concerns of the defence job seekers and clarified that the future of the recruits is stable and that the…

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has announced a new recruitment policy for troops in the Indian Armed forces. Called Agnipath scheme, it will allow women to be inducted and change composition of certain British-era regiments of the Indian Army which have only youth from specific castes. The Minister during the announcement was flanked by the three service chiefs from Army, Navy and Air Force. Recruitment of troops in the Indian Army has been suspended for two years and will re-start in 90 days from now. The Agnipath scheme will entail induction…

The TMC chief has once again shown that she is well placed to be the uniting factor for the Opposition to take on the BJP-led NDA in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, some analysts would say, has achieved the near impossible. By bringing 17 anti-BJP parties, including arch rivals Left, to a roundtable on June 15 to discuss a joint Opposition candidate for the upcoming presidential election, Mamata has once again indicated that she could be the leader who could unite the Opposition to…