Politics

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 ...

The recent Supreme Court order on the right to privacy lays down the correct exemptions which protects Aadhar, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said. Jaitley, who is in the US to attend the annual meetings of the IMF and the World Bank, was responding to a question at the prestigious Columbia University on how the government is planning to handle ...

The Congress today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tell the country what was happening at Dokalam and about his policy on the issue with Rahul Gandhi taking a swipe at him demanding an explanation on road construction by China if he was done with “chest thumping”. Congress spokesperson Kapil Sibal asked Modi to explain his policy to deal with ...

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was today unanimously re-elected as the party’s national president for a five-year term. This was announced by senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav at the SP national convention in Agra. The party’s constitution was amended to extend the tenure of the party chief to five years from the existing three years. Now that 44-year-old Akhilesh ...

Senior BJP leader Satya Pal Malik was today sworn in as the Governor of Bihar at the Raj Bhavan here. The post had fallen vacant after Ram Nath Kovind was nominated as BJP’s presidential candidate and West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi had been holding the additional charge of Bihar during the interim period. Malik was administered the oath of ...

Congress leader P Chidambaram today criticised the bullet train project, saying it will be a demonetisation-like move “which will kill everything else”, and suggested that the money should instead be spent on improving rail safety. The former finance minister’s comments come a day after a stampede on a footbridge connecting Mumbai’s suburban railway stations of Parel and Elphinstone claimed 22 ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has composed the theme song for a popular city puja since theme music has become a new trend among community pujas in the metropolis. The song – “Boichitrer muktoy gantha ekotar monihar” (the jewel of unity is stitched with a string of pearls of diversity) – is being played at the ‘Suruchi Sangha’ puja, ...

BJP chief Amit Shah today criticised Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on dynastic politics and said the BJP believes in the politics of performance while the Congress banks on the “politics of appeasement and dynasty”. In his inaugural address at the BJP national executive, Shah said the current president, vice president and the prime minister had reached ...