Category: Politics

Gandhi also stressed the need for discipline and unity and said strengthening the organisation must override personal ambitions. She said the party must redouble its fight for the victims of the Union government’s “worst excesses”. Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said there are policy issues on which there is a lack of clarity and cohesion even amongst our state-level leaders. Chairing a meeting of top party leaders to evolve a strategy for assembly elections in five states early next year, Sonia Gandhi today noted that the All India Congress…

West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra has highlighted a troubling trends on Thursday which says that India may have lost 35,000 high net-worth individuals to other countries in the past six years during the regime of Narendra Modi. Quoting multiple sources, Mitra’s statement underlines the flight of capital, puncturing the chest-thumping claims of the Modi government that India has become one of the most sought after destinations for investors. The Bengal FM questioned if the departure is linked to “fear psychosis” which prompted the millionaires to look for greener pastures. …

In an announcement made by Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday, if her party forms a government in Uttar Pradesh, all class 12 pass girls will be given a smartphone while all graduate girls will get an electronic scooty. “Yesterday I met some girl students. They said that they need smartphones for their studies and their security. I am happy that today the UP Congress has decided, with the consent of the manifesto committee, that it will provide smartphones to inter pass girls and electronic scooties to graduate girls…

PM Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the Infosys Foundation sponsored 806-bedded Vishram Sadan at National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Jhajjar Campus of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The inauguration took place via video conferencing. Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Chairperson of Infosys Foundation, Sudha Murthy, were the other dignitaries present on the occasion. The 806 bedded Vishram Sadani s a part of Infosys’ Corporate Social Responsibility. It will provide air-conditioned accommodation facilities to the accompanying attendants of the Cancer Patients, who often…

At a time when Jammu and Kashmir is seeing a resurgence in violence, Dubai has signed an accord to build infrastructure in the region, the government said on Monday. However no figure for the value of the accord was given. The memorandum of understanding by the United Arab Emirates has come as the first investment agreement by a foreign government in the region, following the scrapping of special status to Jammu and Kashmir and division of the state into two Union Territories. The agreement will see Dubai building infrastructure including…

Slamming the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of “deliberately” targeting celebrities, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that there was an effort to create an impression that the state has become a hub of narcotics. Uddhav Thackeray was speaking at his party Shiv Sena’s annual Dussehra rally at Shanmukhanand in Mumbai where he accused the NCB of deliberately going after celebrities for “publicity”. “They catch a celebrity, click pictures and make noise around it. Our police only work while the news is about whether someone got bail or not,” CM Uddhav…

After a two-day breather, petrol and diesel prices were hiked again for a second time on Friday. In Delhi, petrol and diesel prices were raised by Rs 0.35 per litre to Rs 105.14 per litre and Rs 93.87 per litre respectively. In Mumbai, while petrol became dearer by Rs 0.34-a-litre to Rs 111.09 for a litre on Thursday, diesel was raised by Rs 0.37 to Rs 101.78. Mumbai is the highest across all the four metro cities in terms of diesel prices. In Bengaluru, petrol is now sold at Rs…

Former Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav has slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over the Lakhimpur incident further alleging that “the BJP government was anti-farmer”. “The BJP workers crushed and killed the farmers with their vehicles. This government is anti-farmer, manure-stealer, and is behind the rise of prices of pesticides,” Akhilesh Yadav alleged.  He claimed that there will be a regime change in the state soon. The SP leader was addressing the ‘Vijay Rath Yatra’ ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022. He further went on to…

Raising concerns about the transparency of funds collected under the Prime Minister Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situation Fund (PM-CARES Fund), retired Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B Lokur said that nobody knows how much money is in the fund or how it is being spent. “We know government employees have donated money. CSR has been diverted towards PM-CARES. But how much money is there under the Fund? We don’t know. How has it been spent? We don’t know. We were told that it would be utilised for tackling COVID,…