Politics

Speculations about Mishra joining the BJP were doing rounds ever since he started criticising Kejriwal after being removed as a minister in May 2017.

Pawan Kalyan made an appeal to his party cadre to help the flood victims in the state, who, he said, are suffering at the hands of an inactive government which is not doing enough to help them.

The money (which the BMC has) can also be used to recycle the wastewater which is discharged into the sea to rid it of pollutants, Gadkari said.

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress was prevented from addressing a press conference on Friday as police detained its chief spokesperson and former MLC Sharma at the party headquarters in Jammu.

The Union home minister, who is also the BJP's national president, said the Narendra Modi government scrapped the special status in 75 days, which the previous Congress-led governments could not do in 72 years because of their “vote-bank greed”.

In the first Independence Day speech of his second term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned why the Congress failed to make Article 370 permanent for J&K during its rule.

Speaker Om Birla also shared his plans to modernise the Parliament building, improve the research wing to help MPs speak effectively and digitisation of speeches made in the House going back to the 1950s.

Vaiko has also alleged that the BJP-led Central government have entangled India in a quick stand.

Siddaramaiah slammed BS Yediyurappa by saying the dedication he had shown to topple the coalition government of Congress and the JD(S) was missing with respect to forming the government.

The West Bengal chief minister said the Trinamool Congress would sit on a dharna in the city on August 13 in protest against the move of the BJP-led government at the Centre.

Sonia Gandhi was on Saturday appointed as interim president of the Congress at a meeting of the party's working committee in New Delhi, after Rahul Gandhi refused pleas by partymen to take back his resignation.

Rashid Engineer was earlier questioned in the case in 2017 and again summoned earlier this week. He is the first mainstream politician to have been arrested by NIA in the case.

In his resignation letter to Rahul Gandhi, Kumar alleged that some of the workers place the interests of their own leaders above the party.

Two days after Vaiko blamed the Congress for not conducting a plebiscite in Kashmir, Congress state president KS Alagiri called him a political opportunist.

Ghulam Nabi Azad wondered if the Centre wanted to implement its decision to take away special status of Jammu and Kashmir by force as the entire region was put under lockdown and no one was even allowed to go out of house.

Singh sent his resignation letter to UPCC chief Raj Babbar on Tuesday evening, hours after the Narendra Modi government passed a resolution to repeal Article 370 that granted special status to J&K and bifurcate the state into two Union Territories.