Politics

The Monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 18 and end on August 10 with the triple talaq bill among the legislative items topping the government’s agenda. The session will have nearly 18 sittings, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar told reporters in New Delhi. The Cabinet Committee of Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA), chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU As General election-2019 is inching closer, BJP led NDA government’s efforts to regain the power is getting stronger but this time they would not get pitch like what they got during general election-2014. Then they were sailing in anti-incumbency wave against Congress led UPA-II regime. Two factors i.e. First ebbing of the PM Narendra Modi wave and ...

Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India and the BJP will never allow it to be disintegrated from the country, party president Amit Shah today said during his first visit to the state after the saffron party withdrew support from the PDP-led government. The saffron party chief also claimed that J&K is part of India due to the ...

Jammu and Kashmir was today placed under Governor’s rule for the fourth time in the last one decade after the BJP withdrew support to its alliance partner PDP, prompting Mehbooba Mufti to resign as the chief minister. A Home Ministry spokesman said “the President has approved imposition of Governor’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir with immediate effect.” The political developments ...

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and his colleague Satyendar Jain, who were on a hunger strike at the lieutenant governor’s office and hospitalised after their health deteriorated, were discharged from the LNJP Hospital today, an official said. Health Minister Jain was admitted to the hospital on Sunday night after his condition had deteriorated. Sisodia was rushed to the hospital ...

The condition of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who was admitted to AIIMS here with urinary tract infection, lower respiratory tract infection and kidney issues, was stable today, the hospital said. The 93-year-old leader was admitted to the hospital yesterday. In a statement, the AIIMS said, “His condition is stable. He is responding to treatment and is on injectable ...

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor was today summoned by a city court in New Delhi on July 7 as an accused in the Sunanda Pushkar death case after it took cognisance of the police charge sheet in which he was charged with abetting the suicide of his wife. In a setback to Tharoor, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal while asking ...

In a big setback to the ruling BJP, opposition parties today appeared winning 11 bypolls, limiting the saffron party and its allies to just three, out of four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats across 11 states — riding high on strengthening non-BJP unity in run-up to the 2019 general elections. With prestige at stake in every single bypoll, the ...

The BJP and the Shiv Sena may have some differences, but they can’t do without each other, Union minister Nitin Gadkari today suggested and wanted the alliance of the two parties to continue. Against the backdrop of acrimony between the two parties during the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll campaign, Gadkari maintained the saffron alliance does not have any ideological differences, ...

On the fourth anniversary of his government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today listed its achievements, saying that over the last four years, development had become a “vibrant mass movement”. “On this day in 2014, we began our journey of working towards India’s transformation,” he wrote on Twitter. “Over the last four years, development had become a vibrant mass movement, with ...