A party office of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was attacked in Kolkata while a party office of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was targeted in West Bengal Jhargram district. The attacks were reported late on Tuesday evening. CPI (M) supporters said that the attack at Surya Sen Street, party office in Kolkata occurred when supporters Students’ Federation of India […]
» Read moreCongress’ K.R. Ramesh Kumar was on May 25 unanimously elected the Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly, after BJP candidate S. Suresh Kumar pulled out of the race, in a major victory for the JD(S)-Congress coalition before Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy faced the floor test. Shortly before the start of the proceedings, Mr. Suresh Kumar said he was withdrawing his nomination […]
» Read moreIn a midnight operation that put the top functionaries of the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) leaders managerial skills to ultimate test, the party’s central leadership issued a diktat to arrange accommodation for the newly elected party legislators from Karnataka on war footing. With clear instructions that the entire exercise should be a closely guarded affair, the TPCC leaders led […]
» Read moreKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today sent a legal notice for criminal and civil defamation to BJP, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Yeddyurappa over allegations of corruption levelled against the Congress leader. In the notice, Siddaramaiah’s lawyer cited instances of political advertisements published by the BJP and speeches delivered by PM Modi during election rallies and accused the […]
» Read moreThe Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Friday decided to pull out of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). The decision was announced by TDP president and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu during a teleconference with party polit bureau members in Amaravati in the morning. The polit bureau also took a decision to move its own no-confidence motion against […]
» Read moreRajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu adjourned the House minutes after it assembled on Friday, after asking the members not to test the patience of an already disillusioned people. Mr. Naidu hinted that he would be compelled to take an extreme view of the persistent two-week disruptions if they were not brought to an end and appealed to all sections of […]
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