Politics

The Congress has “more or less” ruled out an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday, a day after he had participated in a meeting with opposition leaders, including Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Responding to a question on an alliance with the Congress, he said it has “more or less ruled out ...

The Interim Budget Session 2019 has been a successful session in terms of wide participation of all political parties in discussions on various issues of national importance, said Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Mines, while addressing the media here today.Shri Vijay Goel, Minister of State for Parliamentary AffairsandStatistics and Programme ...

Rajya Sabha was adjourned Monday till 2 PM as Congress and TDP members trooped into the Well of the House seeking to raise various issues. Two bills were introduced before Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House. Several opposition members, including from TMC and Congress, protested as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj introduced the ‘The Registration of Marriage of Non-Resident ...

Launching a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Thursday described him as a “darpok” (coward) and dared him to a five minute face-to-face debate on issues such as Rafale and national security. Addressing his party’s minority department convention here, Gandhi also alleged that the RSS was trying to capture the institutions of the country ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is on a sit-in over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police commissioner in connection with chit fund scams, Monday said she will continue her “satyagraha” till the country and its Constitution are “saved”. Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists organised rallies and sit-in demonstrations in various parts of the state to protest against ...

Ruling BJP won the high-stakes Jind bypoll in Haryana on Thursday with party candidate Krishan Middha defeating his nearest rival, Digvijay Singh Chautala of JJP, by over 12,000 votes. The BJP wrested the seat from the main opposition INLD, which was decimated in the by-election. Middha won by a margin of 12,935 votes, Jind Deputy Commissioner-cum-Returning Officer Amit Khatri said. ...

Congress president Rahul Gandhi announced Monday that his party would ensure minimum income guarantee for every poor in the country if it returns to power after the Lok Sabha polls due in April-May He accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP of trying to create two Indias — “one of the Rafale scam, Anil Ambani, Nirav Modi, Vijay ...

Patiala House Court of Delhi has granted bail to former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashvi Yadav and others, in the case of the IRCTC tender scam. Against them, the CBI and ED had filed cases in cases related to IRCTC, in which they were accused of money laundering. In addition to the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two days after Navjot Kaur Sidhu staked her claim for the Lok Sabha ticket from the Chandigarh parliamentary constituency, senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Manish Tiwari has also jumped into the fray. Tiwari along with his supporters on Sunday morning reached the Chandigarh Congress office in Sector 35 and formally gave his application to city ...

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Tuesday alleged that the Congress had organised the EVM hackathon in London in which a cyber expert claimed that the 2014 general elections were rigged. The event was sponsored by the Congress, the minister of Electronics and IT said at a press conference here. An Indian cyber expert, seeking political asylum in the US, Monday ...