Guwahati, Protests rocked different parts of Assam on Monday seeking Congress leader Nolamoni Sen Deka’s ouster from the party for making objectionable comment against union Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday. Some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators have filed FIR against Deka, a former Assam minister who while addressing a public meeting on Sunday in Assam’s […]
New Delhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said he will not apologise to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over the DDCA row, and added that the Bharatiya Janata Party was “begging” for it. “BJP almost begging me for an apology. Sorry. I won’t oblige them. Let Jaitley-ji be cross-examined in defamation cases. Let truth […]
Thiruvananthapuram, The Communist Party of India-Marxist should stop its blind opposition to the Congress and help strengthen secular forces against BJP’s Hindutva agenda, V.M. Sudheeran, Kerala’s Congress unit chief, said on Monday. “The BJP is going forward with its Hindutva agenda. It’s the Congress party that has always kept the secular flag flying high and […]
New Delhi, The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday said the central government “has no authority” to stop the commission of inquiry from probing the alleged irregularities in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA). “The central government is working under the influence of someone and is making a joke of itself. It has no authority […]
Kolkata, Petrol and other petroleum products would not be brought under the ambit of the proposed new indirect tax regime – the pan-India goods and services tax (GST) – for some time after its implementation, Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramaniam said on Sunday. “Constitutionally petrol and other petroleum products will be within the GST […]
Kolkata, The CPI-M on Sunday went all guns blazing against the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee regime in West Bengal, and called for uprooting both the BJP and the Trinamool Congress, saying one was spreading poison while the other has taken the state on the road to destruction. Addressing a […]
New Delhi, The action plan of ‘Start-up India, Stand-up India’ will be launched on January 16, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced on Sunday as he greeted the nation on Christmas and New Year. Addressing the general public, in his last monthly radio address ‘Mann Ki Baat’ for the year 2015, Modi said: “Start-up India, Stand-up […]
Gandhinagar, Expressing satisfaction over revival of the peace process between India and Pakistan, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Saturday said initiatives by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee should be taken forward by the Narendra Modi government. “Efforts initiated by Vajpayee ji should be taken forward by Modi ji and other leaders in the […]
New Delhi, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh will reunite one day to create “Akhand Bharat” or an ‘Undivided India’, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav has said. “The RSS believes that one day these parts, which for historical reasons separated only 60 years ago, will again, through popular goodwill, come together and Akhand Bharat will be created,” […]
Washington, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise stop in Pakistan to meet his counterpart Nawaz Sharif has made quite a splash here, with the US media hailing the significance of his “spontaneous personal diplomacy”. The Wall Street Journal said Modi’s “gesture” was “likely to lend momentum to a tentative reconciliation process between the estranged, nuclear-armed neighbours”. […]