New Delhi: An important meeting of top BJP leadership was held on Wednesday in Delhi regarding the party’s organisational elections, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The meeting, held at the Prime Minister’s residence, was attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and BJP’s National General Secretary (Organisation), BL … Read more
It is hardly surprising that the just-concluded Congress session in Ahmedabad created no more than a ripple. Apart from symbolic grandstanding by crashing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s den after a gap of six decades, the AICC meet had little to offer by way of a much-anticipated roadmap for revival to lift the party out of … Read more
Two months into his 2022 leadership campaign, Pierre Poilievre spoke at the home of Aditya Tawatia, a politically active Vancouver realtor. “Delighted to host the next Prime Minister of Canada,” Tawatia wrote on X, adding his mother had “blessed” Poilievre’s campaign. Tawatia donated $1,675 to Poilievre’s leadership bid and has since kicked in another $3,750 … Read more
Can the Waqf Bill be another turning point in Indian history, just as the Shah Bano episode proved to be in the 1980s? Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of Shah Bano, which mandated that she be granted maintenance by her husband in accordance with the civil law of the country, many Muslims viewed … Read more
For two days during this recently concluded Budget session, MPs were in Parliament from 11 am to 4 am the next morning. Seventeen hours on the trot. Surely, parliamentary democracy is all energised and in top form. Right ? No. Completely wrong. Don’t let the contrived all-night-long sessions deceive you. To borrow a sentence first … Read more
Kolkata: BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday claimed that a Ram Navami rally was attacked in Kolkata’s Park Circus Seven Point area, with the police clarifying that no permission was taken for any procession. In a post on X, Mr Majumdar, who represents West Bengal’s Balurghat in Lok Sabha, alleged that “stones were rained down … Read more
As a nation, India often finds itself in a tug-of-war between the grandeur of its aspirations and the ghosts of its past. One would imagine that a country poised as a global power—boasting nuclear capabilities, a pioneering space programme, a “Tech Stack” that is the envy of the world and an ambitious bid for a … Read more
Chennai: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and actor Vijay has called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assert India’s sovereignty over the Katchatheevu Island ahead of his visit to Sri Lanka today. The actor-politician proposed a 99-year lease of the island as an interim solution, emphasising that full retrieval remains the only permanent resolution to … Read more
New Delhi: Asserting that misconceptions are being spread on the Waqf bill by some parties to shore up their vote banks, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that, through the proposed legislation, PM Narendra Modi is fulfilling the wishes of RJD chief Lalu Prasad while the opposition had failed to do so. Speaking in … Read more
Thiruvananthapuram: BJP state president Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Sunday made it clear that he won’t watch Mohanlal-starrer, ‘L2: Empuraan’ and said any movie that tries to build a story by distorting the truth is doomed to fail. The BJP leader said in a social media post that he was disappointed by this sort of movie-making. “I … Read more