Stunning the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is exulting over the collapse of the Congress government in Karnataka, two of its MLAs on Wednesday voted in favour of an amendment to the criminal procedure code in the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. Terming it a ghar waapsi (homecoming), Maihar legislator Narayan Tripathi told reporters, “In the […]
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New Delhi: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has turned down requests to take over as Congress president, a role that her brother Rahul Gandhi relinquished after the party’s national election debacle in May. Sources say Priyanka Gandhi, 47, has told senior Congress leaders that there is no question of her taking the top post; she would rather […]
New Delhi: In a large-scale reshuffle of the bureaucracy, the government named Atanu Chakraborty as the new secretary of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), replacing Subhash Chandra Garg, who will be the new power secretary. In a notification late Wednesday, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet also named Anil Kumar Khachi as secretary of […]
Relations between India and the United Kingdom are poised for a reset if Boris Johnson, who takes over as the prime minister on Wednesday, delivers on his promise to build on his personal relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Johnson’s first foreign visit as prime minister outside Europe may well be to India, a […]
Karnataka Assembly Floor Test LATEST Updates: Upon accepting HD Kumaraswamy’s resignation, Governor Vajubhai Vala told him to continue as the caretaker chief minister of Karnataka till a new government takes over. Vala also told Kumaraswamy that no executive decisions can be taken during this period. After losing the trust vote in the Karnataka Assembly, HD Kumaraswamy submit his resignation to […]
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said he was surprised by India’s reaction to President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate in the Kashmir dispute. Earlier in the day, Khan had said the Kashmir conflict can never be resolved bilaterally, hours after Trump claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had requested him to mediate in […]
New Delhi: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) further cut its annual growth forecast for India, as it expects weaker domestic demand to limit an economic recovery. The economy is now expected to expand 7% in the year ending 31 March 2020, 0.3 percentage point slower than IMF’s April projection. In April, the Fund cut India’s […]
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy Tuesday submitted his resignation to Governor Vajubhai Vala shortly after losing the confidence motion in the Assembly. HD Kumaraswamy submits his resignation to Governor Vajubhai Vala. ANI Soon after the outcome, Kumaraswamy drove to the Raj Bhavan along with deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara and other senior colleagues and handed over the resignation, officials […]
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