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Why Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi Adamant On Inaugurating New Parliament Building?
By Sushil Kutty Twenty opposition parties will boycott the new Parliament building unveiling. They don’t want the honourable Prime Minister act the ‘Inauguration Minister’, which is a boringly familiar sight ever since 2014. Prime Minister Narendra Modiji...
New Karnataka govt to review bad Bommai ministry orders
Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge on Wednesday said the orders and legislations enforced under the previous BJP regime like school textbook revision and anti-conversion laws, which are against the state’s interest, would be revised or withdrawn by the new...
Adhir Ranjan defends ‘Pagla Modi’ remark over Rs 2K note
Defending his ‘Pagla Modi’ comment, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury issued a clarification and said that he was just saying what the “sentiments” of public is and was just conveying how the people are reacting to PM’s decision of withdrawing Rs 200...
AAP to launch poll campaigns in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, MP
The Aam Aadmi Party will soon launch its poll campaign in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where assembly elections are due later this year. Party sources said the poll campaigns will start with a “maha rally” in each of the three states. Delhi...
Shivakumar camp upset over denial of tenure sharing
Day after senior Congress leader M B Patil claimed that the chief ministership wouldn’t be split, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah’s deputy DK Shivakumar gave a crisp and straight response: “let people say whatever they want”. “There is an AICC general secretary...
More parties joining boycott of parliament building opening
The Trinamool Congress (TMC), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and Communist Party of India (Marxist) have announced to boycott the inauguration ceremony of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28. Congress is also likely to join the b...
Building opening: Puri says Cong ‘lacks national spirit’
The political dispute surrounding the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued on Tuesday, as Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri criticized the Congress party for allegedly lacking “national spirit and sense of...
Kejriwal, Mann to Meet Uddhav for fight against ordinance
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann will meet Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray at the latter’s residence in Mumbai on Wednesday. The two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders arrived here on Tuesday evening. Ear...
Middle East Nations Are Distancing From Washington’s Diplomatic Moves
By Amiad Horowitz A new chapter in the modern history of the Middle East is beginning, and what’s most significant about it is the dwindling influence of the United States. Back in March, the People’s Republic of China helped broker a groundbreaking diplo...
2024 Presidential Poll In US May Turn Into A Referendum On Donald Trump
By Debabrata Biswas A 2024 presidential election featuring president Joe Biden against former president Donald Trump would be a “rematch from hell” – former Republican congressman Will Hard said – “The reality is two third Americans want somebody else”. T...
China Has Genuine Reasons To Oppose Objectives Of Four Nation QUAD
By Girish Linganna The leaders of the QUAD group—Australia, India, Japan and the United States—who had gathered in Hiroshima for a Group of 7 summit, delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour at a summit in Hiroshima on Saturday (May 20, 2023...
Congress Has To Join Opposition Wholeheartedly To Oppose Ordinance On Delhi
By Sushil Kutty Nobody can put a knife to the Congress party’s throat and compel it to stand with the Aam Aadmi Party against the Modi government’s ordinance which returned control of “services” – postings and transfers – to the Lt. Governor after a coupl...
No deal for CM term sharing in Karnataka: Clarification
Siddaramaiah will be the Karnataka chief minister for five years, said senior Congress leader M B Patil, adding that there is no power sharing agreement. “Siddaramaiah will be the CM for five years. If there was a power sharing agreement, senior leaders w...
SAD alleges Mann govt witch hunt to cover up failures
With the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) gunning for the top leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, a political slugfest has broken out with the opposition party accusing the Bhagwant Mann government of a “witch hunt” to cover up its “failures” on the law...
AAP ‘maha rally’ in June against Centre’s ordinance
The AAP on Monday said it will organise a ‘maha rally’ on June 11 against the Centre’s “black ordinance” that effectively gives the lieutenant governor control over administrative services, negating a Supreme Court order in favour of the Kejriwal dispensa...