67 ministers have left the Modi govt since 2014, most of them dropped for non-performance. Some resigned to get bigger assignments, some got organisational duties. Others are still waiting.
Bihar BJP leaders who called the shots between 1995 and 2020 are increasingly being made irrelevant. In the cabinet expansion, two leaders were dropped, one was excluded.
IT Minister says rule doesn’t violate privacy, will only be used as last resort in some cases. But Congress’ Jairam says recommendations were only for child porn cases.
Twitter has 3 important factors on its side — the law, its own principles and its reach. In its battles with Modi government, it needn’t surrender its principles too easily.
Speaking in Rajya Sabha, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says one can criticise even the PM but action will be taken 'if social media is used to propagate hate'.
BJP's farmer leaders tell govt to be sensitive, warn that if protesters continue to show solidarity, the agitation could spread to other parts of the country.
Calling electronic manufacturing an area of ‘great passion’, Union Minister Prasad says PLI scheme will showcase India as an alternative manufacturing location.
Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh is from Bihar. Prasad says BJP doesn't want to make it a political issue but people of Bihar, going to polls later this year, will be told how Singh was attacked.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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