Category: Politics

Ahead of the UP Board 2023 exams for Class 10 and 12, beginning from February 16, CM Yogi Adityanath has asked officials to impose National Security Act (NSA) against those involved in unfair practices. Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked officials to impose National Security Act (NSA) against those involved in unfair practices in the upcoming UP Board 2023 exams for Class 10 and 12, beginning from February 16. Moreover, FIRs will also be lodged against room invigilators and centre administrators found involved in the activities of cheating.…

Veteran Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan and his MLA son Abdullah Azam Khan had staged a protest on a highway in Uttar Pradesh in 2008 as their cavalcade was stopped by police for checking in the wake of an attack on a CRPF camp. Veteran Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan and his MLA son Abdullah Azam Khan were on Monday (February 13, 2023) sentenced to two years in jail in a 15-year-old case by a court in Uttar Pradesh. The judge of the MP-MLA court in Moradabad, Smita…

PM Narendra Modi addressed a rally in poll-bound Tripura and claimed that there is no family in this northeastern state which has not received the benefits of BJP’s policies.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (February 13, 2023) said that his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believes in politics of ‘badlao’ (change) and not of ‘badla’ (revenge). Addressing a rally in poll-bound Tripura, he said that there is no family in this northeastern state which has not received the benefits of BJP’s policies. Urging the people of the state to vote…

A Hindenburg report has alleged financial irregularities and stock manipulation in stocks of Adani group companies with the Opposition demanding a joint parliamentary committee probe into the issue. With Opposition surrounding the Narendra Modi-led government over the Hindenburg report on the Adani Group of companies, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that there is “nothing” for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to “hide or be afraid of”. In an interview with news agency ANI, which was aired on Tuesday (February 14, 2023), Shah also said that it will not…

BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey and Pralhad Joshi, in their notices to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, have alleged that Gandhi made “contemptuous, unparliamentary and dishonourable” allegations.  The Lok Sabha Secretariat has asked Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to respond by February 15 to notices given by BJP members regarding his remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the House. In a letter to Gandhi, dated February 10, the secretariat has asked him to furnish his reply on breach of privilege notices against him by BJP MPs Nishikant Dubey and Pralhad Joshi…

L-G has taken the action as the appointment of the AAP leaders Jasmine Shah and Naveen Gupta, and other private individuals were ‘grossly illegal’ Government nominees’, including AAP leader Jasmine Shah, appointed to the boards of power discoms in Delhi by the Arvind Kejriwal-led dispensation have been replaced with senior officials, sources at the Lieutenant-Governor’s office said on Saturday. Besides Ms. Shah, a spokesperson of the AAP, those removed from the boards include Naveen Gupta, son of AAP MP N.D Gupta, and other private persons “illegally” appointed as ‘government nominees’,…

The BJP leader says the Samajwadi Party should stop “appeasement politics” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former MLA Sangeet Som on Thursday alleged that the western part of Uttar Pradesh was on the verge of becoming a ‘mini Pakistan’. “I would ask everyone to focus on how we can stop the rapidly growing population,” the former MLA said in a video that is now going viral. He said that the Samajwadi Party, the main Opposition party in the State, should curb its “appeasement” politics and stop “thinking like Jinnah”.…

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday arrested YSRCP MP Magunta Srinivasula Reddy‘s son Magunta Raghava in connection with the Delhi liquor scam. He was arrested in connection with ED’s money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the Delhi excise policy case. Raghav Magunta was taken into custody under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Friday evening, officials told PTI. He is expected to be produced before a local court, where the federal probe agency will seek his custody. The ED had also mentioned that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal met…

ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, the paragon of excellence in agricultural research and education in India, has been providing leadership to the National Agricultural Research System for advancements in agricultural research, education and extension. IARI is going to host its 61st convocation on February 24, 2023 at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi. The Vice President of India, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar will be the chief guest in the main Convocation event on February 24, 2023. The Union Minster of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Narendra Singh Tomar Ji and Ministers of State, Ministry of Agriculture…

The breathtaking white sands of Rann of Kutch in Gujarat will witness the congregation of representatives of Tourism Sector of G20 countries during 7-9 February 2023. The 1st Tourism Working Group Meeting under G20 hosted by the Ministry of Tourism is slated to start tomorrow and more than 100 delegates would attend the meeting, said Shri Arvind Singh, Secretary Tourism, Government of India today during the curtain raiser press conference at Dhordo, the venue of the meeting.  The meeting will be graced by Minister of Tourism, Culture and DONER, Government of India,…