New Delhi, Aug 21 (PTI) In a jolt to the Congress ahead of assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, its senior leader Anand Sharma on Sunday resigned from the chairmanship of the party’s steering committee for the state. Sharma, in a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, is learnt to have said that his self-respect is […]
New Delhi, Aug 21 (BPNS) The process for the election of Congress president got underway on Sunday, with the party’s election authority saying it would stick to the schedule of electing a new chief by September 20. Chairman of the party’s Central Election Authority Madhusudan Mistry told PTI that it was up to the Congress […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 20 (PTI) A 10-day-long session of the Kerala Assembly will begin on August 22 with a special one-day conference to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the country’s independence. Announcing the new session, Speaker M B Rajesh said the first day would be dedicated only to the special conference and there would be no […]
Lucknow, Aug 18 (PTI) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Thursday that the political shift in Bihar is a “positive sign” and hoped a strong alternative to the BJP is formed in the 2024 parliamentary polls. He also claimed that the BJP’s allies in Uttar Pradesh are not happy with it and will also break […]
Chennai, Aug 20 (BPNS) Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) President, K. Veeramani said that the secular forces of Tamil Nadu must unite together and prevent the growth of RSS which was trying to create a foothold in the state. He said that RSS general secretary, Dattatreya Hosabale in his recent visit to Chennai had spoken about liberating […]
Chennai, Aug 13 (BPNS) The AIADMK interim general secretary and former Chief Minister, Edappadi K. Palaniswami called for the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M.K. Stalin to allow the state police to function independently to curb the drug proliferation in the state. In a statement on Saturday, the former Chief Minister said that he had raised […]
Thiruvananthapuram, August 13 (BPNS) The CPI(M) led Left Democratic Front government in the state has once again been put in a spot by Thavanur MLA KT Jaleel. In the latest, he stirred a hornet’s nest by making some controversial remarks on Jammu and Kashmir via a Facebook post. Though the former minister withdrew his comments, […]
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) CPM leader ,KT Jaleel MLA who was a minister in the first Pinarayi Vijayan cabinet has drawn flak over serious anti- national remarks on Kashmir. The former minister in a facebook post stated that during partition Kashmir was divided into two and that the Kashmir part in Pakistan was Azad Kashmir […]
Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS) The Department of Vigilance and Anti Corruption (DVAC) bureau is conducting raids and searches at 26 premises of former AIADMK MLA, KPP Baskar since Friday morning. The former MLA is a close associate of the AIADMK interim general secretary and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Edappadi K. Palaniswami. Sources told […]
Chennai, Aug 11 (BPNS) The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), the Dalit political party has said that it would conduct protest marches on August 13 alleging that the police were targeting Dalits in the Kallakurich incident of July in which a private school was ransacked and school buses and police vehicles torched after a Class XI […]
