For renomination to the Rajya Sabha, Nadda will have to look for a seat outside his home state of Himachal Pradesh as the Congress is in power there.
After being bound to a wheelchair for nearly nine years, Ajit Jogi took his first steps this week with the help of bionic supporters. R Krishna Das talks to the former Chhattisgarh chief minister about his new pair of 'e-legs'.
K L Rahul has ruled out of the third Test against England, starting in Rajkot on Thursday, after failing to recover fully from his injury.
As Modi spoke, two Cabinet ministers sat behind him as did senior diplomats and civil servants. National Security Adviser Ajit K Doval -- a regular attendee alongside Modi at such international gatherings -- was intriguingly seated behind the Cabinet ministers and the PM's principal secretary.
The Chhatisgarh chief minister is embroiled in a case of alleged corruption in awarding the contract for the Hasdeo-Bango irrigation project.
Two former legislators -- R K Rana and Dhruv Bhagat -- were sentenced to five years imprisonment Monday in a fodder scam case by a special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ranchi.
'Laluji is like my father and I am like his son.'
Defender and dragflicker Varun Kumar who scored the maximum goals in India's successful campaign in Valencia will be joined by Vikramjit Singh and Gurinder Singh in the defence structure, while the midfield will be formed by Santa Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Manpreet, Sumit along with Harjeet Singh.
'If somebody wants to finish the country and more particularly from the border state, they will start with the borders. Every extra caution should be taken to save the country. Tell your government to be very serious. They have to take every effort to save the country, it is very easy to ruin the youth'
The industry ministry has circulated a draft Cabinet note for allowing foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, a move which will allay industry's concern over policy paralysis.
Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth, Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma and Home Secretary RK Singh were taken by surprise when the Army's Northern Command told them that there had been no consultations on the subject of revocation of the AFSPA even once in 2011. The chief minister's declaration was totally unilateral, the three top secretaries to the Government of India were told
"The meeting was very fruitful and we all are very happy with the outcome. I could not attend the press conference after the conclave as I had to come back to Patna. My effort is to unite all opposition parties ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, and now things are taking shape," the Janata Dal-United leader said.
The stakes are significant for the BJP in this round as the party had in 2019 won an overwhelming majority of these seats, including all in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, that will go to polls on May 7.
Gen Bipin Rawat's appointment, first as army chief superseding two other army commanders, and then as CDS, was the consequence of his close personal rapport with National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Now, with General Rawat gone and nobody named to replace him as CDS, it is evident that no other top military officer enjoys that relationship with Doval, observes Ajai Shukla.
Four Indian Navy's frontline warships have docked in Malaysia at the last leg of their goodwill tour of seven nations.
'...only if we sort it out with Pakistan.'
'Elections are fought to win.' 'In our party, the leadership takes the final decision, and our leaders are very clear about it.'
In his petition, the vice admiral has challenged the government's move to ignore seniority and appoint his junior as the next chief of navy.
The Chhattisgarh chief minister faced allegations of corruption in the Hasdeo-Bango irrigation project.
'I came into politics to bring a smile on people's faces.'
The BJP's outreach to Paswan, son of late stalwart Dalit leader Ram Vilas Paswan, underscores its push to bring him back into the NDA's fold after he walked out of the alliance in Bihar in the 2020 state assembly polls to campaign against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was then the BJP's biggest ally.
The Finance Ministry and Reserve Bank have also expressed their worries over high inflation.
A group of Maratha reservation activists torched the first floor of the Majalgaon Municipal Council building and vandalised it in Maharashtra's Beed district, soon after setting on fire the residence of local NCP MLA Prakash Solanke on Monday, the police said.
Angry over killing of three Hindus, the community members on Wednesday observed a shut down in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh as part of an indefinite strike to protest the deaths, as police arrested 13 people in the case.
Prime accused B Ramalinga Raju has been avoiding court proceedings since September citing health reasons.
Pawar did not entertain requests from members of the opposition INDIA alliance to not share stage with Modi.
To carry on their violent activities across 223 districts in India, Maoists need a massive annual budget of Rs 200 crore to procure latest arms, perpetuate jungle warfare, continue propaganda and recruit new cadres. Ajit Kumar Singh and Sachin Bansidhar Diwan reveal how the Left-wing extremists gather their 'revenues' via a complicated network of extortion, threats and narcotic cultivation.
For the first time in his political career, he failed to carry his party to even a working majority -- and again, for the first time in his career, he finds himself in a situation where he cannot rule by dictatorial fiat, points out Prem Panicker.
A local court reserved its orders for Saturday on a petition seeking continuation of in-patient treatment for former Satyam Computers chairman B Ramalinga Raju after a senior doctor informed the court that Raju requires at least 2 months treatment for hepatic ailment.
Mishra and Doval hold the rank of a Cabinet minister.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has sought clearance from the ministry of defence to construct concrete huts like along the Line of Actual Control bordering China.
'They are both very individualistic and have similar personalities.'
The committee of secretaries (CoS) looking into the issue of allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in the multi-brand retail segment is likely to meet this Friday to try for more agreement on the issue.
In the face of a virtual revolt by the top bureaucrats who are learnt to have complained against a proposed extension (the fourth in a row) of cabinet secretary K M Chandrashekhar, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh okayed the appointment of Ajit Kumar Seth as the next cabinet secretary from Africa, where he is currently of a week-long visit.
Copparam Shreyas Hareesh, a 13-year-old prodigy from Bengaluru, succumbed to injuries that he had suffered following a crash in the third round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship.
The condition of Communist Party of India - Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu, 96, turned extremely critical on Saturday evening after he suffered multi-organ failure, a medical bulletin said.Dr Ajit Kumar Maity, Basu's personal physician and a member of the medical board at the hospital, said, "All five vital organs -- heart, lungs, kidney, brain and liver -- are not functioning properly."
The condition of Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu turned extremely critical on Saturday with all his vital organs affected and there was 'little hope of any good result.'
