NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said his party, Congress, and the Shiv Sena (UBT) led by Uddhav Thackeray will jointly contest the Maharashtra assembly polls, due in October this year….
The proceedings of the Lok Sabha were adjourned for the day on Friday as the opposition demanded a discussion on the alleged irregularities in the conduct of the medical entrance exam NEET.
When the…
The post of Deputy Speaker in the Lok Sabha, which remained vacant under Modi 2.0, is expected to be filled again, but the suspense over who would be offered the position continues.
A report by The…
Amid the ongoing investigation into the NEET-UG paper leak case, the Opposition has vowed to raise the issue in Parliament on Friday. According to sources, all INDIA bloc parties will submit notices…
After much hype and hoopla, the 18th Lok Sabha finally has a Speaker in Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Om Birla. The Kota MP beat out the INDI Alliance’s candidate K Suresh through a voice vote,…
With the election of three-time BJP MP Om Birla as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi passed the first big political test of his third term on Wednesday.
Birla defeated…
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav were seen sitting in two back-to-back rows in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday during the election of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Om Birla as the…
Around 20 per cent of the 2.23 lakh electors exercised their franchise on Wednesday in the first two hours of the civic body polls being held for the first time in Nagaland in 20 years, an official…
Ahead of the elections for the post of Lok Sabha speaker, the Congress party has issued a three-line whip to its MPs to be present in Parliament tomorrow from 11 a.m. onwards, an official statement by…
NDA candidate Om Birla and INDIA bloc’s Kodikunnil Suresh on Tuesday filed their nominations for the post of Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha on Tuesday, forcing the first election for the post.
Since…
India is marking the 49th anniversary of the Emergency imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi-led Congress government on June 25, 1975. PM Narendra Modi slammed the grand old party and…
Water was leaking from the roof of the sanctum sanctorum at the Ram temple here after the first heavy showers since it was opened to the public, its chief priest Acharya Satyendra Das said on…
BJP president and Union minister Jagat Prakash Nadda has been named Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha, official sources said on Monday.
Nadda replaces Union minister Piyush Goyal, who recently…
The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha, which begins today, is likely to be stormy as the Congress-led Opposition will target the BJP-led NDA government on a number of issues ranging from the…
An under-construction central office building of the YSR Congress Party was demolished by the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority in the early hours of Saturday. The office was located…
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday announced the formation of a high-level committee to probe into the issues pertaining to the functioning of the National Testing Agency (NTA)…
The Election Commission (EC) has received eight applications from aggrieved candidates, including those from the BJP and the Congress, for verification of tampering or modification in micro-controller…
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday slammed the central government over the NEET-NET row that has prompted students to take to the streets after the National Test Agency cancelled the UGC-NET exam…
The controversy surrounding the entrance-level exams continues to unravel. In the latest, the Ministry of Education announced the
cancellation
of the University Grants Commission-National Eligibility…
Weeks after the Pune Porsche hit-and-run case, another high-profile case has grabbed headlines. It involves the daughter of a Rajya Sabha MP. The woman allegedly ran the BMW she was driving over a man…
The Congress party in Kerala welcomed the candidature of the party’s general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi for the by-poll in the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat.The bye-election in the seat was necessitated…
Former Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar strongly rebutted Elon Musk’s remarks about electronic voting machines (EVMs). Musk, in a post on X, suggested that EVMs should be eliminated due to…
Nationalist Congress Party-SP (NCP-SP) leader Sharad Pawar has thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) performed poorly in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
“We…
The Karnataka government has increased the prices of petroleum and diesel in the state by around Rs 3 per litre.
The prices will increase as the Congress government of the state has increased the…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday expressed his dilemma regarding which constituency he should represent as a Member of Parliament saying that everybody knows the answer except him and no…
The chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Pema Khandu, will continue to serve a second term. When he and his cabinet colleagues take the oath of duty This morning, the state will continue to be led by…
Pema Khandu is set to become the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh for the third consecutive term after being re-elected as the BJP legislature party leader at the meeting in Itanagar on…
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is seeing an escalation of violence. In the last 80 hours, three separate attacks have taken place, raising concerns about the law and order situation in the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday thanked people of India for giving the NDA a majority for the third consecutive time and requested them that they may “now remove ‘Modi Ka Parivar (Modi’s…
At least six newly elected MPs of the INDIA bloc and one more, are facing criminal charges which could attract a jail term of more than two years. If this happens, these MPs stand the risk of losing…
Karnataka could get five ministerial positions with the shining minister being Nirmala Sitharaman.
Karnataka
1. Nirmala Sitharaman
Rank: Cabinet
Portfolio:
Born on 18 August, 1959, Nirmala Sitharaman,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi scripted history on Sunday as he took the oath of office for a third straight term, becoming the first non-Congress leader and second after Jawaharlal Nehru to achieve the…
The swearing-in ceremony of the Narendra Modi government marked a significant moment bringing together a diverse group of ministers from various states across the country. This assembly of leaders…
The NDA is back to power. In this avatar, the ruling coalition was born in 1998. But was it the first iteration of the NDA? Think again
read moreAfter his party fell short of a majority in the Lok …
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will participate in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony, Sunday evening, representing the party as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya…
Narendra Modi is set to be sworn-in as the Prime Minister of the country for his third consecutive term at 7.15 pm today (June 9). Leaders from neighbouring countries and the Indian Ocean region,…
Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi is set to take oath on Sunday for a third straight term as the head of a coalition government after two full tenures in which the BJP enjoyed a majority on its…
Congress Working Committee (CWC), party’s top decision-making body on Saturday passed a resolution to appoint its former chief Rahul Gandhi as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok…
Shambhavi Choudhary of the Lok Janshakti Party on Tuesday became the youngest Member of Parliament after winning from Bihar’s Samastipur Lok Sabha seat. The 25-year-old defeated Sunny Hazari of the…
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) has proposed Rahul Gandhi’s name for the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, as confirmed by senior party figure KC Venugopal on Saturday.
Venugopal,…
The Congress party declared Saturday that the results of the Lok Sabha elections signify a ‘moral, political, and personal’ defeat for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Despite the BJP securing 240 seats…
As Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stands firm on his decision to resign, taking responsibility for the NDA’s poor performance in the state, Home Minister Amit Shah has asked him…
Equalling the record of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be stepping into the shoes of his party’s stalwart from yesteryears, Atal Bihari…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been granted bail by a Bengaluru court in a defamation case filed against him by BJP’s Karnataka unit for issuing “defamatory” advertisements in mainstream newspapers…
One person was killed after a massive fire broke out at a private institute building in the Shanipar area of Maharashtra’s Pune, police said on Friday. According to officials, the watchman of the…
The BJP on Thursday categorically dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, in what he termed as the ‘biggest stock market…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah had given “investment advice” to people during the campaign for the lok Sabha polls which…
After the Lok Sabha poll results, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has called for a meeting of all MLAs of Delhi today.The meeting will be held at the Chief Minister’s residence at 5 p.m. today in the…
At least 280 MPs have been elected for the first time in the 18th Lok Sabha election — up from 267 in the 2019 polls — in the 543-member House.
According to think-tank PRS Legislative Research 263…
As the results for Lok Sabha elections 2024 were announced on June 4, one thing which became very clear to the people of India was the arrival (finally) of Rahul Gandhi. It would not be wrong to say…
Gaurav Gogoi and Rakibul Hussain, both from the Congress party in Assam, have brought new hope to the grand old party in the state with their victories. Despite the Congress winning only three out of…
The INDIA bloc has not yet outright conceded defeat and has instead vowed to continue fighting.
Following the meeting of the alliance’s leaders, INDIA bloc’s Chairperson Mallikarjun Kharge on…
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP-led NDA won 292 seats, giving them a majority with 240 seats won by the BJP alone. Telugu Desam and JD(U), allies of the BJP, won 16 and 12 seats,…
Data shows Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 180 out of 286 seats it fought directly against Congress in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party had won 257 such seats out of 374 in…
A day after he lost in Coimbatore against DMK’s Ganapathy Rajkumar P, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai on Wednesday rued the BJP’s dismal performance in the state and said that the party will take…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lost its exclusive national majority following significant setbacks in key states, in the 2024 Lok Sabha election results.
Despite…
The BJP-led NDA has secured a majority in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections by winning 292 seats with the BJP alone securing 240 seats. BJP allies Telugu Desam and JD(U) secured 16 and 12 seats…
President Murmu has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation and asked him to continue till the new government assumes office. The BJP-led NDA is likely to form the government on June 8….
A sense of perceived abandonment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who did not visit the state when a civil war like situation prevailed in the state between the Meitei and the Kuki communities last…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi might take oath for a third time on June 8, Saturday, sources told NDTV on Wednesday. As per the results of the Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India has…