Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has announced that he will donate his salary for the next six months to install dustbins in 1,100 village markets in his state.
Having finished third in the by-elections to Jind Assembly seat in January this year, Surjewala, it seems, is not inclined to take any chances. Once bitten, twice shy, as they say.
A proposal mooted by the Congress’s training department headed by Sachin Rao, a Rahul confidante, to appoint a group of motivators called ‘preraks’ to impart training to its workers was nixed at a meeting chaired by party president Sonia Gandhi.
The RSS considers its work at the grassroots in Tamil Nadu and Punjab to be weak in comparison to other states.
Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has suggested that indigenous products be used instead — such as locally produced clay tumblers and plates.
After Minister of State for Health Aswini Choubey’s reported remark that the AYUSH Ministry is working with cow urine to prepare medicines and to cure cancer, his office issued a clarification saying that he had been misquoted because of language issues.
In the last two days, the BJP office has become almost free of plastic bottles.
While the old model was more like a stool, the new version has facility for microphone as well as to keep the brief of the arguing lawyers.
In his new role, Singh will have to travel abroad more than what he did as Home Minister — he has already visited Mozambique in July.
Outgoing BSF D-G Rajnikant Mishra has set a precedent of austere conduct in office and it has created such a buzz that his contemporaries, and even his successor, may be under pressure to follow.
On Thursday, the aspirant landed up at the BJP headquarters to hand over a dossier with articles and pictures of his “public service” in his native place and a box of sweets for Baluni.
When Prakash Javadekar was asked if he believed Nishank's remarks on Ram Setu and the Himalayas, he evaded the question with a smile.
The reason, he is convinced, is because his colony largely houses of diplomats. Pointing out that he can never reach any event on time, Supriyo said he is on a mission to try and get these officials to car pool, to lessen travel time as well as carbon footprint.
Denying the ED’s charge that Chidambaram was trying to tamper with evidence in the money laundering case against him, senior advocate Kapil Sibal wondered how he could tamper with bank accounts and added, “I must have really long arms”.
Arun Jaitley being a mentor of many young BJP leaders, almost all of them were beside his mortal remains throughout Sunday.
Sitharaman, however, did not agree to easing the restrictions. She jokingly asked senior PIB officials if they had allowed her to be “gheraoed” because she asked for a press conference at short notice.
On Friday, the journalists seized an opportunity to convince Nirmala Sitharaman, just as she was about to leave after the press conference.
In Shah’s first such meeting as Home Minister, as many as eight bureaucrats accompanied him.
It was decided that Chidambaram should appear before the media and then let himself be arrested, rather than be seen as running away from law.
Amid all the rumours, Hooda was at Vir Bhoomi, Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial, on Tuesday morning to pay homage to the late prime minister on his 75th birth anniversary.
The host of the show, Bear Grylls, tweeted on Monday that the episode with Modi was “officially the world’s most trending televised event”.
Now that Sonia Gandhi has taken over as Congress president again, will she bring in one of her trusted lieutenants to the key post of organisational general secretary, replacing K C Venugopal who was appointed during Rahul Gandhi’s tenure?
The Congress had stitched together a coalition comprising JMM, JVM(P) and RJD for the General Election, but all is not said to be well now.
Once a student activist, a politician never forgets those days. His days as a student activist keep coming up in Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s speeches.
It emerges that the veteran leader has been running a viral fever for the last few days.






