After a long wait the cabinet portfolios for ministers have finally been allocated, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will hold the Home department portfolio with him, while Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will be the Urban Development Minister, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar from the Nationalist Congress Party will be holding the Finance Ministry portfolio. According … Read more
The government on Friday rejected suggestions that it has issued guidelines to states to implement a uniform civil code. In a written response to a question in the Lok Sabha about “guidelines issued by the government for implementing the Uniform Civil Code in different states”, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal asserted that “no such guidelines … Read more
Last Updated:December 06, 2024, 12:57 IST As we approach 2025, the BJP has virtually taken over India’s political saffron space, eating up its competition, and diminishing one party at a time Across India, now saffron equals BJP. (AP File) In the late 1990s, Shiv Sena’s first chief minister Manohar Joshi was cross-examined by Justice Srikrishna … Read more
Jamshedpur East, a constituency that has been a stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since the days when it was part of Bihar, is once again in the spotlight. The seat, which has been a BJP bastion since 1990, saw a significant shift in 2019 when former Chief Minister Raghubar Das was defeated by … Read more
Shimla: Former Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, Jairam Thakur, on Thursday expressed concern over the High Court’s decision to close 18 hotels operated by the state’s tourism development corporation. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader claimed that the financial condition of the tourism department was better even during … Read more
NEW DELHI: Voting commenced on Wednesday for bypolls in 15 assembly seats across Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, and Uttarakhand, with results scheduled to be announced on November 23. However, these bypolls are not expected to directly impact the composition of the respective legislative assemblies.In Uttar Pradesh, polling is taking place in Katehari, Karhal, Meerapur, Ghaziabad, … Read more
Air quality in the National Capital Region (NCR) has sharply declined, reaching ‘very poor’ levels in Noida, Greater Noida, and Ghaziabad on Sunday. The Air Quality Index (AQI) for Noida plummeted to 304, down from 169 the previous day. Greater Noida reported an AQI of 312, while Ghaziabad recorded an even higher AQI of 324. … Read more
As the Bharatiya Janata Party continues to hold protests over water pollution in the Yamuna River, Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendra Jain said that the industrial waste that flows into the river does not originate in Delhi as there are “no water-polluting industries” in the national capital. Jain, who came out of jail this month … Read more
After announcing that INDIA bloc candidates would be contesting the Uttar Pradesh bypolls on the Samajwadi Party’s ‘cycle’ symbol, party president Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday ‘humne yeh thana hai, ‘samvidhan, arshan, sohardh (We have decided to save Constitution, Reservation, Harmony) “We have decided to save ‘Constitution, Reservation, Harmony’ We have to build the country … Read more
Bharatiya Janata Party’s MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday claimed that the opposition tried to disrupt the proceedings of the joint parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill meeting, physically and verbally threatened both the witness and the Chairperson, and tore up committee documents. BJP MP Surya wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla … Read more
