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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: Opposition leader

49 Lok Sabha MPs suspended for disrupting Parliament proceedings. Tally for both Houses now 141

The MPs suspended on Tuesday include National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor, Manish Tewari and Karti Chidambaram and Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav.

Republican People’s Party (CHP) elects Ozgur Ozel as new president ahead of Turkey local elections

Ozel, a pharmacist by trade, received 812 of 1,366 possible votes at a tense, hours-long party congress in Ankara that took two rounds.

Delhi HC sees ‘no urgency’, posts hearing to appoint Lok Sabha opposition leader for July

Advocates Manmohan Singh Narula and Susmita Kumari had filed a plea seeking an urgent hearing on the grounds that the Lok Sabha Speaker was not performing the statutory duty.

Vajpayee was an oddball of an RSS man, who ate non-vegetarian food and enjoyed his whisky

Ullekh N.P. in his book, The Untold Vajpayee: Politician and Paradox, writes how RSS backed a reluctant Advani for leader of opposition instead of Vajpayee.

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Trump is swinging on Russia again. What this means for Europe’s security architecture

The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

2 Agniveers awarded Sena Medal for gallantry in Op Sindoor, a first since Agnipath launch

This marks the first time that Agniveers have received gallantry awards. They are the Army's short-term recruits under the Agnipath scheme.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.