The third phase of Jharkhand Assembly elections on Thursday in 17 constituencies would be crucial for the ruling BJP in the state as three heavyweight candidates are in the fray. The momentum for the polls in the third phase has gained pace with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressing two...
BJP ally JD(U) supported the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. JD(U) member Ram Chandra Prasad Singh said his party supports the Bill. "I am supporting this Bill. I was really amazed about this Bill and what is being discussed in the House."...
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday said that protests in the northeastern region against Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 are happening as "the issue has not been communicated properly". Speaking to the media here on the sidelines of 9th Global Sports Summit 'Turf ...
Amid protests from sugarcane farmers in western parts of Uttar Pradesh, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday wrote to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and demanded better price for the sugarcane. Priyanka Gandhi wrote: "UP government has not raised the sugarcane price this ...
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday said he had contacted Union Minister for Environment and Forests Prakash Javadekar and once again urged him to withdraw or keep in abeyance his ministry's green nod to Karnataka's Kalasa-Banduri water diversion project, which the Goa government has repeatedly opposed. ...
A day after former Chief Minister and ex-Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi predicted that the Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party may reunite in the near future, the party (Sena) rejected it outright as "his personal views", here on Wednesday. Senior Leader and Deputy Chairperson of the Maharashtra Legislative Council ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday wished former President Pranab Mukherjee on the occasion of his 84th birthday. Taking to the micro-blogging site, Prime Minister Modi wrote: "Birthday greetings to our remarkable former President and statesman Shri Pranab ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit out at the Congress and some opposition parties, saying they are speaking the same language on Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (CAB) as Pakistan. Modi's remarks came at the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parliamentary meeting ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the felling of 452 trees for the construction of an additional track for the railway line connecting Delhi to Agra via Mathura, provided the mandatory compensatory afforestation is also undertaken. A bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde and comprising Justices Sanjiv ...
With an aim to double the farmers' income, the Narendra Modi government has doubled the agriculture budget in its first tenure, said Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary in the Parliament. On Tuesday, Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Eknath Shinde asked the minister about the ...
