POLITICS
Exclusive: PC Chacko to join Sharad Pawar's NCP today, will campaign for LDF in Kerala
Chacko had last week announced his resignation from the Congress party, alleging group interest in deciding party candidates for the Kerala assembly elections.
POLITICS
West Bengal Election 2021 | Can Mamata's fractured leg do for TMC what Sharad Pawar’s rain-soaked speech did for NCP in 2019?
Experts believe that the injury may have turned a seeming BJP tide in the Chief Minister’s favour for now; feisty leader established her reputation as a `street fighter' in similar conditions in 1990 and 1993
POLITICS
Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP-JJP govt defeats Congress’ no-confidence motion in Haryana Assembly
Leader of the Opposition and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had said that the need to move a no-confidence motion had come because the BJP-JJP government had lost public confidence in the backdrop of protests against farm laws.
POLITICS
A 'low-profile' BJP leader and an 'organisation man', meet Tirath Singh Rawat, the new chief minister of Uttarakhand
Tirath's name was finalised in the meeting of the Uttarakhand BJP's legislature party held in Dehradun on March 10 to decide the successor of Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned as the chief minister after days of speculation about a leadership change
POLITICS
Explained: ‘Unpopular' or ‘non-performer’ - What led U'Khand CM Trivendra Rawat to step down a year ahead of polls
There have been reports that a section of the BJP leaders from Uttarakhand were not happy with Rawat’s leadership. They believed that he may not be able to lead the party to success in the elections due in February 2022.
POLITICS
History repeats itself in Uttarakhand as Trivendra Rawat quits a year before his full tenure
Only one in the eight CMs have completed a five-year term in the state’s two-decade-long existence
POLITICS
Explained: Why the Supreme Court may revisit its 1992 verdict on quota limit
A reappraisal of the judgment could mean altering the structure of reservations that has been in place in the country since 1992
POLITICS
West Bengal Elections | TMC releases list of 291 candidates, Mamata to contest from Nandigram, vacates Bhowanipore
The stae is witnessing a high-stakes battle between ruling TMC and the BJP. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is facing a tough challenge from the latter amid a series of defections from her party to the saffron party.
POLITICS
What VK Sasikala's move to 'step aside' from public life means for poll-bound Tamil Nadu
Political equations seem to have changed overnight with the AIADMK-BJP alliance on a stronger wicket than the rival Congress-DMK combine, which is struggling to sew up a seat arrangement for the elections
POLITICS
PM Modi flaunts symbols from poll-bound states during vaccine jab
Assam, Kerala and Puducherry are going to assembly polls beginning later this month. The schedule of elections to five assemblies including the three was announced by the election commission last week.
POLITICS
Explained : What is FATF, why is Pakistan on its 'Grey' List
Pakistan has been placed in the ‘grey list’ three times in the last 12 years.
POLITICS
Delhi Gymkhana Club, capital’s iconic landmark, at a crossroads after government takeover
The elite club, called a relic of the imperial past by the NCLAT, is allegedly riddled with mismanagement, nepotism and financial irregularities. However, its members, especially some in the disbanded committee, disagree and told Moneycontrol they were considering taking the matter to the Supreme Court.
POLITICS
How Arvind Kejriwal's AAP trumped Congress in Surat municipal polls
The party’s attempts to play a larger role at the national level have failed in the past, except in Punjab where it emerged as the main opposition party in the 2017 assembly polls.
POLITICS
Twitter to govt: Blocking accounts against Indian law, and our principles of defending freedom of expression
The microblogging site also listed steps, including suspension of more than 500 accounts engaging in manipulation, action on accounts inciting violence and labelling of tweets that were in violation of its policy, as part of enforcement under the Twitter Rules since the violence in New Delhi on January 26.
POLITICS
Ghulam Nabi Azad's poetic farewell; Says Muslims should be proud to be in India
Azad, whose term as Rajya Sabha member expires on February 15, has been a member of the upper house for 28 years. He was a member of Lok Sabha for 10 years and was member of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir assembly for three years when he was the chief minister.
POLITICS
The significance of Sasikala’s return to Tamil Nadu politics
After much speculation, Sasikala, 66 announced on February 8 that she will return to active politics, a development that can potentially cause disquiet in political circles, more so in the ruling party that sacked her when she was to jail
POLITICS
'Concerned over safety of employees', Twitter seeks meeting with IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad after Centre's warning
Twitter believes that the open and free exchange of information has a positive global impact, and that the tweets must continue to flow, said the microblogging site.
POLITICS
India's COVID-19 fight to Opposition's 'U-turn' on farm laws, the key takeaways from PM Modi's address in Rajya Sabha
In his reply to the debate on the President's speech at the start of the Budget session, PM Modi invoked three former prime ministers to attack the Opposition over its criticism of farm laws.
BUSINESS
What's behind Arvind Kejriwal government's push for switching to electric cars in Delhi
The EV policy, announced in December 2019 and notified by the Delhi government in August last year, is aimed at reducing air pollution by offering subsidies and waivers on road tax and registration charges for electric vehicles
POLITICS
Budget Session: Jyotiraditya, Digvijaya spoke one after another in RS, house bursts into laughter
The leaders were speaking during the debate on motion of thanks to the President’s Budget session address on January 29 in which the farmers’ protests and related issues found a mention
POLITICS
Budget 2021 | Infra push for poll-bound states in FM's big-ticket announcements
The FM announced road infrastructure projects for West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, going to polls in a few months. Infra push apart, the FM also announced a welfare scheme for tea workers in Assam and West Bengal
POLITICS
Budget Session |Subsidy scrapped in Parliament canteen menu; here is who eats what!
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla had on January 19 announced the scrapping of the subsidy on Parliament’s canteen food. ITDC will be handling the canteens now, instead of Northern Railways that has been at the helm for 52 years.
INDIA
Maharashtra best state in justice delivery; Uttar Pradesh worst: Report
The second edition of the India Justice Report found that Telangana has the highest share of women judges at 46.2 percent, while Jharkhand has the lowest at 12.1 percent in subordinate courts. Five states, it said, did not have a single woman judge in their high courts as of August 2020.
POLITICS
Opposition parties to boycott President's address to Parliament on January 29
In the joint statement, the parties lashed out at the Prime Minister and the BJP-led Centre for being arrogant, adamant and undemocratic in their response regarding the constitutional validity of the farm laws
