Politics

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi targeted Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani over the SEBI slapping fine on his firm for alleged manipulative share trade, and asked the prime minister to speak out on the issue. Speaking during his poll campaign tour of Gujarat, he claimed that the share market regulator has termed Rupani “beimaan” (dishonest) and imposed fine on him. Gandhi ...

The Paradise Papers, a cache of 13.4 million documents obtained by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and investigated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in partnership with The Indian Express, reveals how two firms Bermuda’s Appleby and Singapore’s Asiaciti Trust help the global rich and powerful move their money abroad. Among the 180 countries represented in the data, India ...

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has said that Article 370 of the Constitution, which guarantees special status to the state, is the nation s commitment to the people of J-K and should be honoured. The chief minister said that dialogue is the only way forward to resolve the Kashmir issue and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has ...

Opposition National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said Kashmir was incomplete without Pandits and his party wants them to return, though he opposed the idea of creating a separate homeland for them in the Valley. Addressing a delegates’ session of the NC at the Sher-e- Kashmir Cricket Stadium here after a gap of over 15 years, he said Kashmiri Pandits were ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Former union minister Sukh Ram, who has won many elections from Mandi, political competence is on test this time because he has been trying to shape up his son anil sharma’s future by donning BJP hat. As we know that he had merged his party with BJP just before assembly election date announced by the election commission. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “killed” the country’s economy by firing “double tap” shots of note ban and GST into it, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi yesterday said and asserted that only someone with “a very big chest but a very small heart” could do this. The Goods and Services Tax was “flawed” and had unleashed a “tsunami of tax ...

A court in Visnagar today issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against quota agitation spearhead Hardik Patel after he failed to appear before it for the second consecutive time in a case of vandalising the office of a BJP MLA during the quota stir in 2015. The warrant was issued against Hardik Patel, convener of the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea of Congress seeking its direction to the Election Commission to use VVPATs (voting machines with paper trail) in the coming assembly elections in Gujarat and install CCTV camera in each polling booth to check mobility of people inside the booth. The plea, filed by All-India Congress Committee secretary Prakash Joshi, ...

Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat said today that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of a “double engine” for the state’s development has proved to be a non-starter, and urged him to use “some special fuel” to propel growth. Taking a dig at Modi’s pre-poll promise, Rawat said he should do something during his visit to Kedarnath on Friday to ...

The famous blue Wagon R used by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been reported stolen – from right outside the government’s headquarters in the capital. Kejriwal, who has weathered many run-ins with the police, which reports not to his government but the centre, asked on Twitter about where it’s “dhyan” or attention is focused. The Wagon R, gifted by ...