Officially, the meeting was about selection of the new information commissioner. According to Tejashwi, Bihar’s 65 percent reservation decision was discussed.
Congress's Supriya Srinate says the BJP MP has made her party’s stand clear on the issue. BJP has remained equivocal on caste census while key allies JD(U) & LJP are for it, as is Oppn.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president said he believes there are two classes of people – rich and poor – in the society and different castes and religions fall in both categories.
Congress has fielded Sunny Hazari, while Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) is backing Shambhavi Kunal Choudhary. Both candidates are son & daughter of JD(U) ministers.
In an interaction with ThePrint, the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) leader says he does not think his ‘Bihari first’ plan will be possible under any other alliance.
On Tuesday, Pashupati Paras resigned from Modi Cabinet after BJP struck a deal with his nephew Chirag Paswan. For Paras, this could mean a return to political obscurity.
On Tuesday, Paras resigned from Union Cabinet, a development that came after BJP finalised seat-sharing talks with his nephew Chirag Paswan for Lok Sabha polls.
Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) likely to get 5 seats, remaining to go to parties led by Upendra Kushwaha, Jitan Ram Manjhi & possibly Mukesh Sahani's VIP, if it joins.
How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.
After negative growth in 2022-23, air cargo volumes grew 18% year-on-year from October 2023 to March 2024 and 20% year-on-year from April 2024 to August 2024.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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