Both the BJP and SAD are learnt to have approached Kapil Dev to contest Lok Sabha elections in 2014, but the cricketer wanted to stay away from electoral politics.
On Monday, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma had a surprise meeting with Mukherjee. It is not known whether the issue of former President Pranab Mukherjee attending an RSS event at its Nagpur headquarters came up for discussion.
Rathore, who was a Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting since 2014, had an office on the first floor of Shastri Bhawan.
With Assembly elections just months away in Chhattisgarh, Congress leaders are claiming that they have got feelers from Jogi, who had walked out of the party two years ago.
NCW officials said to begin with, the HRD ministry can make installation of such vending machines compulsory under the CBSE affiliation by-laws and in the spirit of Swachh Bharat, it can even consider installing incinerators on the campuses to promote its environment-friendly disposal.
It is Jairam Ramesh who is most prolific in writing books since the UPA went out of power, publishing at least one title each year since 2015.
Addressing the media after his meeting with PM Narendra Modi Monday, newly sworn-in Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said he had an “informal meeting” with the PM during which he discussed many developmental issues.
Launching a coffee table book at the start, Sushma Swaraj held it above her head so photojournalists could get a good shot.
The President’s secretariat recently got in touch with most government offices, asking them to replace Kovind’s earlier photograph in their respective offices with a new one.
On Thursday, at a lunch hosted by BJP chief Amit Shah for ministers and mediapersons to mark four years of the Narendra Modi government, Gadkari, who has lost almost 10 kg, was seen discouraging others from eating a number of items on the table.
Biplab Deb is scheduled to address two public rallies and lead a roadshow in the main town. Deb’s presence, party leaders in Delhi say, would be a morale boost to the cadre ahead of the May 28 by-election.
While receiving a visiting dignitary at the airport has emerged as a marker of enhanced importance, a send-off seems to have become another marker of a special gesture. Modi’s visit witnessed this new marker of warmth between Modi and Putin.
The party — an unusual gesture from the otherwise private and silent Sinha — comes amid reports that many officials of I&B Ministry, and officers of the Indian Information Services, are relieved with Irani leaving the ministry.
Sharad Yadav had organised a big convention at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi to mark the launch of his new party, Loktantrik Janata Dal, on May 18.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is learnt to have informed the state Estate Department that he will vacate the bungalow within the stipulated time.
Concerned over mushrooming of ‘Sangh vicharaks’ (RSS ideologues) and ‘Sangh ke jaankaar’ (those familiar with the outfit) who appear on news channel debates on even issues not strictly related to RSS, the organisation plans to restrict such people from taking part in these programmes.
The last-minute clamour after the BJP fell just short of majority meant Yeddyurappa first had to skip his Delhi visit, and now the rushed swearing-in early in the morning means absence of the PM and the party chief.
While officially party leaders said it was only postponed, since the party was waiting for the final tally, sources said it had more to do with the quick change in political atmosphere in Karnataka.
Union minister Uma Bharti’s remarks seem to be jinxed these days. After her earlier remark on dining with Dalits was misinterpreted, Bharti posted a series of tweets to clarify her statement.
Jawaharlal Nehru may be a more discussed figure in the political circuit but diplomats too are talking about him. Recently, Indonesian ambassador to India Sidharto Suryodipuro tweeted a picture of Nehru.
In the Karnataka Assembly polls, it is the Lok Awaz Dal with the “blackboard” symbol. In the meanwhile, a new party, Loktantrik Janata Dal, is a work in progress.
Sumitra Mahajan has removed Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje, the new president of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, as her honorary adviser.
In his first stop at, during his three-country visit to Latin America, Naidu witnessed the interest evinced by Gautemalan President Jimmy Morales about India’s soft power.
Former NIA Director General Sharad Kumar is tipped to become Member, National Human Rights Commission, which will ensure him a fixed term of five years.
Union Science Minister Harsh Vardhan in an address to a women’s group in Delhi’s Model Town over the weekend said that he felt predictions by Nostradamus about India are perhaps coming true and that person could be Prime Minister Narendra Modi.




