Politics

Taking “full moral responsibility” for the recent train accidents, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu today indicated he had offered to resign in a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The minister met the prime minister after a meeting of the Cabinet and left the city soon after, his staff told PTI. “I met the Hon’ble Prime Minister @narendramodi taking full moral ...

The Centre is tackling the Kashmir issue with all seriousness and “good results” have been visible in the last two-three months, BJP president Amit Shah said today. On the border standoff with China in Dokalam, he said the government has already made its position clear. “The BJP government is effectively tackling the Kashmir issue and good results have come in ...

The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government locked horns with the Centre over how to celebrate Independence Day on August 15 in schools across the state. The state government instructed schools to ignore a directive issued earlier by the human resources development ministry asking education institutions to follow a centre- prescribed format for I-D celebration. The state government took the stand ...

Cracking down on dissidents in Gujarat, the Congress today expelled for six years eight of its MLAs who cross-voted in yesterday’s Rajya Sabha elections. AICC general secretary incharge of Gujarat unit Ashok Gehlot said he has also recommended the expulsion of six of its legislators who had earlier resigned as MLAs. Three of them had later joined BJP. Asserting that ...

In a fresh turn of events, the Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh today told the Supreme Court that a mosque could be built in a Muslim- dominated area at a reasonable distance from the disputed site in Ayodhya. The Board also told the apex court in an affidavit that the Babri Masjid site was its property and only ...

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy today accused the Chandigarh Police of doing a “somersault” on a case involving the Haryana BJP chief’s son, accused of stalking a woman, and said he would file a PIL in the Punjab and Haryana High Court for a court-monitored CBI probe into the incident. “With my associate lawyer AP Jagga on attempted abduction of an ...

NDA nominee M Venkaiah Naidu was today elected as the next Vice President of India by securing over two-thirds of votes leaving opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi far behind. Naidu got 516 votes out of total 771 votes cast while Gandhi could only manage 244 votes. Of the total 771 votes polled, 11 were found to be invalid. Although 785 MPs ...

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s car was pelted with stones today during his visit to this flood-affected town but he escaped unhurt, police said. Banaskantha Superintendent of Police Neeraj Badgujar said a man threw stones at Gandhi’s car, breaking its rear glass when he on his way from Lal Chowk to the helipad in Dhanera. Gandhi escaped unhurt, he added. ...

A senior Maharashtra officer caught on tape quoting a price of four crores to facilitate a housing project despite violations has been sacked by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. Radheshyam Mopalwar was heading the department that is building the Mumbai-Nagpur expressway, the Chief Minister’s pet project. The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was removed after an audio clip said to be ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar unexpectedly resigned yesterday, but hours later joined hands with the BJP to reclaim the government in a stunning political manoeuvre that relegated his alliance partner RJD to the opposition. The ostensible reason for Kumar to quit was his falling out with Deputy Chief Minister Teshaswi Yadav, the son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad. Yadav is ...