58 Rajya Sabha members from five states including 8 central ministers, ex-PM Manmohan Singh, and BJP president JP Nadda, are set to retire by May this year.
Matuas form the second-largest bloc of SC voters in West Bengal. Mamata Bala Thakur's late husband Kapil Krishna Thakur had won Bongaon Lok Sabha seat for TMC in 2014.
The PM said the 17th Lok Sabha has been about 'perform, reform and transform', adding that his govt has made 'game-changing decisions' from women's quota bill to Article 370 abrogation.
Bengal sends 3rd-highest number of MPs to Lok Sabha. Mamata has vowed to not let Citizenship (Amendment) Act be implemented in state, where BJP continues to woo the Matua community.
Opening discussion in Lok Sabha on behalf of Congress, Gaurav Gogoi says: ‘We believe in secularism but not the western definition of it. We believe in Sarva Dharma Samabhava.'
Addressing ‘doorstep delivery’ of ration under Punjab govt’s National Food Security Act, Delhi CM said the candidates will be announced in the coming 10-15 days.
In stinging letter to the Congress MP, former party leader Sharmistha Mukherjee says she and her late father are being subjected to 'vicious online trolling' by his supporters.
Both parties keen to ally but decision hinges on seat-sharing agreement, on which talks took place last month. ‘Announcement may take place after Parliament session,’ it is learnt.
Congress leaders move two separate resolutions on Karti's renomination from Sivaganga: One opposing it, and the other supporting it. Those opposing Karti termed 'rebels' by AICC leader.
Jayant Chaudhary’s alliance with BJP will deal another blow to INDIA bloc weeks before general election. Last month, one of its prime architects — Nitish Kumar — returned to NDA.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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