The former minister for environment and forests has asked officers to stop using plastic file covers that are found everywhere in government offices.
Though Mulayam had returned home, Akhilesh rushed back to Lucknow on Monday morning to personally attend to his father.
In the past two days, Modi has visited Guruvayur temple and Tirupati temple to seek divine blessing before the party embarked on a new journey in the south, according to a party leader.
At a recent World Environment Day event, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, heading the new Jal Shakti Ministry, spoke of how environmental degradation has much to do with straying from Indian culture.
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has called a meeting of his supporters — MLAs, senior and middle-level leaders and office bearers — on Sunday to discuss the next course of action.
As Jaishankar addressed the plenary session on Thursday, he candidly admitted that he did not know that he would be the minister delivering an address at the session.
His wife T Ushamma and other family members accompanied him.
However, as the BJP had given the post of Deputy Speaker to Thambi Durai of the AIADMK in 2014, rumours are rife that the party may offer it to the BJD, which is outside the NDA fold this time.
RPI(A) leader Ramdas Athawale, who took charge as Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Monday, is set to be to be welcomed by the Maharashtra unit of his party with great pomp.
New External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who made his debut on Twitter on Saturday, first sent out thank you messages to his counterparts from around the world.
There has not been any spontaneous outpouring of emotions now that Rahul Gandhi has indicated that he does not want to continue as Congress president. One gets to hear that even the solidarity gathering outside his residence today had to be organised.
Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) president Ram Vilas Paswan has completed all document work related to filing of nomination from Assam
In order to give a clear signal that the BJP wants to continue its warm ties with friendly parties, despite its brute majority at the Centre, the BJP is inviting their leaders for the swearing-in ceremony, a party leader said.
In a letter to bureau chiefs of all media houses, the SP requested them to not call any of the party’s nominated panelists for discussions on TV channels or to express the party’s point of view.
Sushma Swaraj and her Pakistan counterpart, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, were seen sitting next to each other at a hotel in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Most of the staff were given a holiday, as they worked without a break for the last two months, but the excitement was palpable in and around the office.
The Trinamool Congress thought of approaching the Supreme Court against the poll panel decision. The party approached Abhishek Singhvi urging him to challenge the decision.
One gets to hear that Priyanka Gandhi has entrusted Kamal Nath and a couple of senior party leaders to reach out to BJD chief Naveen Patnaik, YS Congress’s Jagan Mohan Reddy and TRS’s K Chandrashekar Rao.
The video has triggered speculation over whether the PM will go to Varanasi again before campaigning ends on Friday evening.
On Tuesday, senior party leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley invited church leaders for a meeting at his residence.
The assessment in the Opposition camp as of now is that no party will get a simple majority, even though the BJP may emerge as the single-largest party.
So Gautam Gambhir, BJP candidate from East Delhi, is seeking votes in the name of the Narendra Modi government’s schemes. However, the handbills or fliers being circulated in homes to seek support for him do not have a picture of the state BJP chief.
Congress party has virtually made Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and the state’s Home Minister, Tamradhwaj Sahu, camp in Amethi.
From next week, a party leader said, several Union ministers and other national leaders will start touring and camping in the PM’s constituency.
In contrast to the polarising electoral discourse, Singh has decided to reach out to influencers not only beyond the BJP’s core support base but also across the political divide.








