Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s active role and personal monitoring are responsible for the turnaround of the infrastructure sector, which suffered due to policy paralysis during the UPA regime, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday. In a contrast to the previous regime, the current government under the leadership of Modi has spearheaded a shift towards … Read more
Congress has opposed the Centre’s move to deny MSP benefits to farmers, especially of Punjab and Haryana, if they continue to burn farm stubble. Taking note of the ET report that revealed the Centre’s plans in this regard, Congress said instead of taking a comprehensive view on the multiple reasons for pollution in Delhi, the … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday urged the party workers to go door to door with the ‘Nyay’ guarantees and underline the threat posed by the BJP’s ideology and its “agenda of hate”. In an appeal to the Congress workers a day before the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls, Gandhi said he is … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress slammed home minister Amit Shah for his recent comments suggesting that China has not encroached any Indian land under the Modi government. The party said that by giving a “clean chit” to China, the ruling party is making it more challenging for India to address the issue of illegal encroachment.He emphasized that … Read more
The Centre will pull all stops to ensure prices of essential food items from onion to tomatoes to pulses do not spike particularly during the elections, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said as he cited the Modi government’s track record of controlling rates within days of any temporary hike. In an interview with PTI, Goyal, who … Read more
New Delhi: The Congress alleged on Tuesday that the Narendra Modi government has done away with the fair and equitable benefit-sharing provision for the users of codified traditional knowledge and AYUSH practitioners, and opened the “floodgates” for firms like Patanjali to deprive local communities of the commercial benefits derived from their resources. The opposition party’s … Read more
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the ‘White Paper’ on Thursday. (Image: PTI/File) Modi Government’s White Paper: The document on economic mismanagement aimed to settle the long-standing debate on the ‘issue of the economy’ once and for all before the Lok Sabha elections. The Lok Sabha is holding a 12-hour discussion on the ‘White Paper’ presented … Read more
Congress on Thursday questioned the Modi government’s claim that 250 million people in the country were alleviated from poverty in the last nine years. If the claim was right, why did not the consumption rate increase and why did the Centre still provide free food to crores of people, the main Opposition party asked. Disputing … Read more
The BJP lost 16 of the 80 seats in UP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections – the party won 62 on its own and its ally, Apna Dal, got two. In the 2024 polls, it is aiming for a clean sweep and to achieve this, it has adopted a ‘NaMo’ formula. BJP sources told … Read more
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge (File Photo/ANI) New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday hit out at the Centre over the rise in prices of essential commodities during the Modi government’s tenure and wondered what kind of “developed India” is this. In a post on X, Kharge shared a video montage comparing the 2014 prices … Read more
