As Mamata's 31 December deadline looms, both Bengal Congress & CPI(M) remain reluctant to ally with TMC. Congress national leadership keen on tie-up to take on BJP.
From remarks on Hinduism to abrogation of Article 370, DMK leaders have been making several controversial remarks, pushing the INDIA bloc into a corner.
The comments came following reports that Samajwadi Party opposed the inclusion of Bahujan Samaj Party into INDIA alliance during the fourth meeting of the bloc Tuesday.
We tend to romanticise the defeat of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency regime. Certainly, India didn’t rise up as a whole in 1977 to defend the institutions of democracy. It was sterilisation.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said INDIA bloc will protest at Jantar Mantar Friday and nationwide protests will also be held against govt’s ‘immoral and illegal’ behaviour.
RS chairman expunges remark of Mohammed Abdulla on discussion of Kashmir bills. Congress is forced to assert that it doesn't support quote invoked by DMK MP.
Mamata, Akhilesh, Nitish planned to skip the 6 December meeting. Kharge had dialled leaders to convene the meeting when counting of votes was underway Sunday.
A meeting of all anti-BJD and anti-BJP parties was held on Friday evening to decide on protest rallies, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Sarat Pattanayak said.
After a meeting in Delhi last month, INDIA bloc announced joint rally in Bhopal in first week of October but MP Congress chief Kamal Nath later said that it has been cancelled.
Within Congress, the release of the Bihar caste data will mean that high command in Delhi is likely to push the party-run Karnataka government to release data from its 2015 caste census.
Much of the praise has focused on the ‘protective’ men in the crowd. It recentres male authority over public space. Do women require guardianship simply to exist outside?
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.
Indian Army has inducted loitering munitions, kamikaze and surveillance drones for over Rs 5,000 crore post Operation Sindoor from various domestic firms.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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