Sohil Sehran

POLITICS

Lok Sabha Polls 2024: As exodus continues, Rahul Gandhi's 'coterie' under fire again

Lok Sabha Polls: Zeeshan Siddiqui, a party MLA from Maharashtra, has accused leaders close to Rahul Gandhi of body-shaming and being rude. He is not the first to train guns on Gandhi’s inner circle.

POLITICS

Lok Sabha polls: Uttar Pradesh sealed, what's next for INDIA alliance?

Lok Sabha Elections: The political struggle is far from over, as alliance partners remain hesitant to offer a substantial share to the grand old party.

POLITICS

Samajwadi Party confirms alliance with Congress, offers 17 Lok Sabha seats in UP

Both parties have agreed on the seat-sharing formula, and have decided to jointly battle against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state, SP's Uttar Pradesh unit president said.

POLITICS

'We scrapped Article 370 then to seek 370 seats now,' PM Modi stresses on an evolved J&K

Lok Sabha Elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi also referred to the upcoming Bollywood film Article 370 and slammed previous governments for depriving women of their democratic rights.

POLITICS

PM Modi to visit Jammu on Feb 20: What it means for BJP ahead of LS polls

Lok Sabha Elections: Modi will visit Jammu on Tuesday to launch multiple development projects, including for education, railway, aviation and road sectors, worth Rs 30,500 crore.

POLITICS

Most electoral bonds sold in Mumbai, redeemed in New Delhi, says ADR

Electoral bonds (now-scrapped) were interest-free bearer bonds bought by companies and individuals from authorised branches of the State Bank of India (SBI) in India.

POLITICS

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Farooq Abdullah’s NC to contest all seats in J&K - what does it mean?

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The decision has surprised many in view of Abdullah's recent lament that “We are gradually moving towards a situation where there will be one country ruled by a single party”.

POLITICS

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: AAP wants to contest 6 seats, offers 1 to Congress in Delhi

The party has also gone ahead and announced candidates for a Goa and two Gujarat seats

INDIA

Farmers are ‘annadata’, can't arrest them, Delhi government tells Centre

The Delhi government has rejected the Centre proposal to turn the Bawana Stadium into a make-shift jail and urged it to held talks with farmers

POLITICS

Another week, another blow, Ashok Chavan adds to Congress' exit list

In 2010, Ashok Chavan had to step down as the chief minister of Maharashtra for his alleged involvement in Adarsh housing scam

POLITICS

Bharat Ratna Charan Singh: A farmer leader who rose to the top but never forgot his roots

Singh championed the cause of farmers and as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he was the architect of land reforms and also took a lead in formulation of a law that brought great relief to rural debtors

POLITICS

INDIA sets aside rifts as chorus against BJP's fiscal policy turns louder at Jantar Mantar

The opposition leaders joined the protest initiated by the Kerala government, held a day after a similar protest by Karnataka against the Centre’s alleged biased fiscal policies.

INDIA

Chalo Delhi Protest: Karnataka CM at Jantar Mantar in cry for 'justice', Kerala joins the chorus

Karnataka ministers and Congress MLAs protest alleging "injustice" to the state in tax devolution and grants-in-aid over the past few years.

POLITICS

The 'unfit' remark that triggered an uproar in Lok Sabha

Members from both the treasury benches and opposition exchanged words, and the INDIA bloc later staged a walkout from the House.

POLITICS

ED raids AAP Rajya Sabha MP, Kejriwal's personal secretary

Searches are being conducted in connection with a Delhi Jal Board money laundering case, sources said. Delhi minister Atishi claims ED has deleted the audio of all the recordings of witnesses examined by it in the liquor scam

POLITICS

Lok Sabha Election: Women rule revised minimum income scheme in Cong policy to beat BJP

Under the scheme, the opposition Congress is planning that women across the country would be given at least Rs 60,000-70,000 annually.

POLITICS

Fuming after Chandigarh loss, Kejriwal now rakes up ‘EVM tampering’ charge against BJP

Quoting verses from the Bhagavad Gita, Kejriwal said when the earth gets filled with sins, God uses a broom in his way to clean them.

POLITICS

Delhi under heavy security ahead of Kejriwal's protest at BJP office over Chandigarh poll rigging

Kejriwal, who skipped the Enforcement Directorate summons for the fifth time, along with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and AAP workers, was scheduled to stage a protest outside the BJP office.

BUSINESS

FM Sitharaman doubles allocation for Swadesh Darshan scheme

A framework for rating of tourists centres on quality of facilities and services will be put in place to ensure improved facilities, the minister said in her budget speech

BUSINESS

How FM Sitharaman invoked PM Modi's 'four castes' slogan in Budget 2024

The earlier approach of tackling poverty through entitlements had resulted in very modest outcomes, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. When the poor become empowered partners in the development process, government’s power to assist them also increases manifold, she added.

POLITICS

Social justice is governance model for BJP-led Centre, and not a slogan: FM Sitharaman

The Union finance minister also reiterated that the resources are distributed fairly and government is addressing systemic inequalities that had ‘plagued’ the society.

POLITICS

Top Muslim cleric, guest at Ram Mandir event, seeks Centre's intervention after 'fatwa' and 'threats'

Umer Ahmed Ilyasi, the chief of All India Imam Organisation, was among the guests invited by the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra for the temple inauguration ceremony on January 22 in Ayodhya.

POLITICS

Here is what Nitish Kumar’s latest U-turn means for Bihar and national politics

Kumar was sworn in as the Bihar CM for a record ninth time after once again changing the alliance partner.