Politics

He alleged that the chief minister meant transgenders when he made the remarks. Speaker Vipin Singh Parmar said he will look into the record and if any unparliamentary word is found, it will be expunged.

Singh was reportedly unhappy over the proposed induction of alleged mafia don and former Lok Janshakti Party MP from Vaishali Rama Singh into the RJD.

The meeting came on a day Mumbai witnessed high drama after the BMC demolished parts of a house belonging to Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut. The demolition drive was later stayed by the Bombay High Court.

Raut, who is also the executive editor of Shiv Senamouthpiece 'Saamana', has been engaged in a war of words withactor Kangana Ranaut after she likened Mumbai to Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

State Higher Education Minister KP Anbalagan said that the strategy of categorising colleges only as autonomous or constituent colleges will deprive affiliated colleges the capacity or capability of becoming autonomous degree-granting colleges.

The ruling coalition already has a Dalit leader in Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and hence accommodating Manjhi, also a leader representing the deprived Musahar caste, would not be an easy task.

Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Salman Khurshid will head the manifesto committee.

The former minister further said Fadnavis had met Manish Bhangale, who had alleged that Khadse received phone calls from some gangsters.

The Delhi High Court Friday asked the Centre, Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to treat as representation a PIL which alleges that state authorities are using services of private shooters to hunt wi...

However, the ruling BJP refuted Nath's allegation, saying the rice found unfit for human consumption was purchased during the previous Congress regime of Nath, and demanded an apology from him for such a thing happening under his leadership.

In the letter to the Prime Minister, Rao said the Centre was abdicating its responsibility of fully compensating the states by taking recourse to legal opinion and was violating the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Compensation Act.

Such statements become even more ridiculous as the demand for elections is being made by those who never contested the polls themselves, Jakhar said. The state Congress chief said there were “inherent contradictions” in the letter written by them.

For the man who lived on butter toast for over a year in a small room in the AICC in the 1970s, the fight is beyond just front-row seat as the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha.

Asked why he chose to sign the letter, Jitin Prasada said the "letter was written with the sole purpose of suggesting how to reinvigorate and revitalise the party, and introspect for galvanising the organisation. It was not to undermine the top leadership...

Local residents of village Dangam in Shopian informed the police that a body seemed to be buried inside an orchard at the village, a police official said.

In the first three months of the Excise Policy of the state for 2020-21 which came into effect in mid-May in view of the COVID-19 lockdown imposed earlier, Rs 262.98 crore more was collected as excise duty in comparison to the first quarter of last year,...