Category: Politics

A court in the Kerala capital has issued an arrest warrant against newly sworn-in CPI-M Rajya Sabha member A.A. Rahim in a case against him filed by a college professor, who alleged that she was harassed and held hostage by him and other Students Federation of India activists some years back. The Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial […]

A court in Assam’s Barpeta district on Tuesday rejected the bail petition of Independent Gujarat MLA and Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani, and sent him to five-day police custody, a day after he was re-arrested by the Assam police on different charges, including “outraging the modesty of a woman police officer”. The Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court […]

In the order issued by the Government of Tamil Nadu, a coordinating committee headed by Chief Minister M.K Stalin has been set up to host the 44th Chess Olympiad, scheduled to be held from July 28 to August 10 in Mahabalipuram. As per the Tamil Nadu government’s order chief minister’s son Udhayanidhi Stalin is also […]

Ahead of the upcoming kharif season, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar urged state governments and central institutions to chalk out a strategy to boost seed production and reduce farmers’ dependency on private players. Tomar, while addressing a conference on the government’s preparedness for the kharif season, said the state governments have a bigger role in […]

New Delhi, In Jammu and Kashmir, democracy has penetrated the grassroot level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday as he visited the union territory for the first time since the scrapping of the Article 370 by the government in 2019. “I want to tell the youth of Jammu and Kashmir that the hardships your […]

Laying the foundation to overhaul the century-old railway locomotive workshop at Rs 20,000 crore in the tribal district of Dahod, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged schools and colleges in tribal districts to “refresh the memories” of tribal heroes during the freedom struggle through skits and songs. Addressing a gathering of about two lakh […]

Rajasthan’s former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot reached the national capital on Thursday and is slated to meet Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in the evening. All eyes are set on this meeting, likely to be held around 7 p.m., as there are speculations doing the rounds of Pilot, who is also the former state party […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said “our country is not made of royal systems and royal thrones”. “The tradition that we have for thousands of years has been a tradition of carrying on the strength of the common man,” he said while speaking after conferring the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with a group of women dairy farmers during his visit to Banas Dairy in Deodar of Banaskantha, where he discussed various issues related to animal husbandry and suggested that they get their cattle vaccinated against foot and mouth disease. The PM was accompanied by Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Gujarat […]

Days after the Gujarat All India Majlis- e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) vice-president Shamshad Pathan resigned from the party, citing his differences with party state president Sabir Kabliwala, as many as 21 office bearers of AIMIM from Ramol area of Ahmedabad also resigned on Tuesday. Pathan had announced his resignation on Sunday blaming Kabliwala for “taking decisions […]