Month: July 2022

To mark Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the government has intensified its efforts to get more people to join its ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign (hoisting of flag in every home) from August 13 to 15. As part of the campaign, every citizen is asked to hoist the national flag at their homes. Sources in the government said that starting from August 1, around 500-750 top celebrities from different fields will start posting on social media platforms about their participation in the campaign. Between August 13 to 15, these celebrities would post…

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya shared a message for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee amid Enforcement Directorate raids in West Bengal school teacher recruitment scam. The BJP leader tweeted a video of former governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar, at an India Today event where he claimed that many chief ministers have spent several years in jail for similar but much smaller recruitment scams. Amit Malviya wrote, “Former West Bengal Governor, who knows finer details of the SSC Scam, had made an important point at a program…

The Delhi government on Friday blamed the Centre for the cancellation of his Singapore visit. After days of tug-of-war between the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Centre over clearance for his Singapore visit, the AAP’s national convenor will finally not be going. The Delhi government has issued a formal statement blaming the central government for the incident. Kejriwal was invited to participate in the World Cities Summit to be held in Singapore in the first week of August. The formal statement said that the formalities for the Singapore visit were…

Three more lawmakers were on Thursday suspended for the remainder of the week from the Rajya Sabha for “disrupting” the House by “showing placards”, making it the third suspension in as many days and taking the total number of suspended MPs in the Upper House to 23. The three suspended members are Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) lawmakers Sushil Kumar Gupta and Sandeep Kumar Pathak and independent MP Ajit Kumar Bhuyan. This is for the first time that the act of “…displayed placards this morning” was specifically mentioned along with other…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tamil Nadu has a strong historical connection with chess and has produced many grandmasters. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the inauguration event of the Chess Olympiad in Chennai, said the most prestigious event has come back home. The prime minister inaugurated the 44th Chess Olympiad, which is hosted by India for the first time. The most prestigious event has come back to its home. This is the first time the Chess Olympiad is being held at its place of origin. It is coming to Asia…

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sought an immediate apology from Congress for Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remarks on President Droupadi Murmu. UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has termed Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remarks on President Droupadi Murmu as ‘indecent’ and has described it as an insult to the entire tribal society and women. CM Yogi has also sought immediate apology from Congress for the reprehensible act. The chief minister has said that the remarks of the Congress MP towards the President are highly condemnable as making such remarks on the country’s highest…