When JD(U)’s national executive — its highest decision making body — meets in Delhi on July 8, the BJP’s top leadership will be assessing messages coming out of the meeting.
The Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritwa Abhiyan award ceremony on Friday evening stood out for more reasons than one. There was, to begin with, the provision for sign language translation.
The Congress has been saying that its president Rahul Gandhi is yet to get permission from the MEA for undertaking the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. But the MEA has revealed that it has not received a formal request from Rahul so far.
While the BJP and Congress sparred with each other over the Emergency in the last couple of days, it may have yielded a fringe benefit to one of the contestants in the DDCA elections.
Kurien will not be retiring from politics, but plans to find time to write a memoir about his long parliamentary career, during which he was twice the chief whip of the Congress in Lok Sabha.
After a woman NSUI worker from Chhattisgarh levelled sexual harassment charge against the student organisation’s national president, Fairoz Khan, the Congress on Monday set up a three-member committee to probe the matter.
A reported statement by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal that the Kerala government is not cooperating with railway development has also come in handy for the Congress to target both the state and central governments.
Vijayan accused the Centre of sanctioning coach factories in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and argued that its decisions were not in line with the federal system.
While the expectation was that Congress president Rahul Gandhi would go abroad to celebrate his birthday, as he has done on many occasions in the past, he did not.
Rail Bhawan officials were slightly flummoxed recently when they noticed that money earned for the service, as reflected in the books, was not really as huge as they should have been.
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar is miffed with Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi. Despite the Delhi High Court order of 2016 and the ministry’s repeated reminders thereafter, Tyagi has little to show on the teacher recruitment front. DU continues to reel under an acute teacher shortage with departments being run by ad hoc faculty for years. […]
Having returned home after treatment at AIIMS, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has personally written to the resident doctors of the premier institution and expressed his gratitude for the manner in which they looked after him.
While BJP president Amit Shah has launched the ‘sampark se samarthan’ programme to meet prominent people to talk about the Narendra Modi government’s programmes, party general secretary Ram Madhav organised a strategic session for social media influencers.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu left his doctors on tenterhooks by undertaking a bumpy road journey in the Northeast on Friday, barely five days after undergoing a cataract operation and lens implantation.
Among them were the high commissioners of Britain, South Africa and Bangladesh and the ambassadors of Russia, Canada, Iran and Iraq.
Mukherjee has already penned his pre-Rashtrapati Bhavan political journey in some detail. But the curiosity about the contents of his diary remains high, especially after Mukherjee’s headline-making visit to the RSS headquarters in Nagpur recently.
Usually, ministers of state or officials at the rank of secretary attend such events. But after the Sochi summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, it seems that South Block is giving signals to the West about New Delhi’s proximity to Moscow.
This time, while leaders of almost all the like-minded parties have been invited, Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is reportedly not on the guest list.
Besides Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmishtha Mukherjee expressing displeasure, his son Abhijit Mukherjee is also upset.
While there was speculation that Sunil Deodhar would be shifted out of Tripura after Biplab Deb complained about him, some in the top leadership denied it.
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.


