Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi will be sworn in on Thursday for his second term at the helm of a coalition government that will be minus outgoing finance minister Arun Jaitley, in a ceremony attended by 6,000 invitees, including foreign dignitaries, allies and adversaries. Efforts towards government formation were in full swing with Modi and […]
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New Delhi: After the Lok Sabha polls debacle, the newly-elected MPs of the Congress will meet for the first time on June 1 and elect the new leader of the parliamentary party. The Congress Parliamentary Party is currently chaired by Sonia Gandhi and all 52 MPs will be present at the meeting, besides its Rajya […]
On May 23, as the Opposition collapsed in state after state in the wake of an unprecedented Modi wave, only three leaders held fort: YS Jagan Mohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh, MK Stalin of the DMK, which fought the elections in alliance with the Congress in Tamil Nadu, and Naveen Patnaik in Odisha. Of […]
Oath Ceremony: Narendra Modi will take oath for the second consecutive term as Prime Minister. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ahead of a glittering swearing-in ceremony today, which will see several foreign dignitaries in attendance. PM Modi will take oath for the second consecutive term at 7 […]
Mumbai: All three doctors accused of abetting suicide of a junior colleague at a state-run hospital in Mumbai were arrested on Tuesday. Senior Doctors Bhakti Mehre, Ankita Khandelwal and Hema Ahuja, accused of tormenting 26-year-old Payal Tadvi with casteist slurs, have been arrested, the ANI reported on Wednesday. Agripada police arrested Bhakti after […]
Rajeev Sharma The Rahul Gandhi-led Congress finds itself ship-wrecked on a 52-square metre sinking island infested with snakes and surrounded by crocodiles and sharks. That’s the grim picture for the Congress after the just-concluded general elections. How could the 134-year-old Grand Old Party have done any better than its 52-seat tally, still three […]
Mumbai: All three doctors accused of abetting suicide of a junior colleague at a state-run hospital in Mumbai were arrested on Tuesday. Senior Doctors Bhakti Mehre, Ankita Khandelwal and Hema Ahuja, accused of tormenting 26-year-old Payal Tadvi with casteist slurs, have been arrested, the ANI reported on Wednesday. Agripada police arrested Bhakti after […]
Bhubaneswar: The team of Naveen Patnaik, who will be sworn in as Odisha Chief Minister for a fifth consecutive term on Wednesday, is likely to be a mix of experienced and new faces, according to the BJD lawmakers who were intimated of their induction. Several BJD lawmakers on Tuesday said that they had received phone […]
Enough has been said about how chemistry outplayed arithmetic in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. It’s time now to look at kinesics — the science of body language. If you don’t know where to start, you can begin with the hug that Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi and Andhra Pradesh chief minister-elect Jaganmohan Reddy exchanged in […]
