According to sources, Radha Mohan Singh was the only minister who had spent a night at a Dalit village to restore the faith of the community in the BJP
Prakash Javadekar’s preoccupation with BJP’s election campaign Karnataka has kept him away from Shastri Bhawan.
The word of the week for the BJP leaders is “galatta”, meaning noise. Leaders from the Hindi belt learnt the word when supporters of state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa’s son started making noise after he was denied a ticket to contest from Varuna seat.
RPI(A), which did not participate in the all-India bandh called by different SC and ST groups to protest against the government earlier this month, has now decided to call for a mass agitation next month against the court order on the legislation and rising atrocities against Dalits in the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photograph was missing from the giant poster on the stage. The second slip-up was that the leaders on the stage forgot to pay the customary floral tributes to party ideologues Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Syama Prasad Mookerjee.
Leaders of seven Opposition parties, led by Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, met Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Friday.
Those from Varanasi seem to be getting lucky in the BJP. A number of leaders from and around Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency have been given plum posts.
Sources say the top BJP leadership is not happy with its Delhi president Manoj Tiwari, who has more enemies than friends in the state unit.
An Indian Railway Traffic Service officer was said to be brought in from Lucknow for the ministry’s media work.
Karnataka assembly elections 2018: Congress Communication department head Randeep Surjewala, convenor Priyanka Chaturvedi and Pawan Khera would set up a base in Bengaluru from next Monday.
The residence, where Ambedkar lived between 1921 and 1922, was bought by the Maharashtra government in 2015 for about 3 million pounds. It was later converted to a memorial in honour of the Dalit icon.
In the rush to take selfies with a rather sporting Chopra, one wonders whether her message — “We need to give girls the same opportunities as boys if we want them to be healthy and successful” — actually got through.
A photograph of the senior leader dressed like a rockstar playing a guitar, displayed prominently in the room, fails to amuse almost no one.
hema Malini is fondly remembered for her role in “Seeta aur Geeta”, and fans urged her to act in a sequel — 40 years after the movie became a hit in Russia.
Lok Sabha member and West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is said to be upset with Singhvi fighting the case for the TMC-led Bengal government.
The women and child development ministry has decided that it wants to look into making life easier for homemakers and asked people to write in with their suggestions on simplifying cooking, gardening, home decor, and house-cleaning.
Many of the Opposition MPs, who had signed on an impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, are unhappy over the delay in submission of the notice. And their ire is directed at the Congress.
Impeachment motion against CJI Dipak Misra: While Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is collecting the signatures, remain tight-lipped, sources said that parties like the DMK and Trinamool Congress have not yet signed on the motion.
Yadav addressed two public functions in Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency over the weekend.
Smart India Hackathon 2018 organisers could not fix a simple technical glitch when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing the students through video-conferencing.
Kushwaha visited RJD chief Lalu Prasad in AIIMS after the latter was taken there for medical consultation. Earlier, RJD members had joined a programme organised by the RLSP in Patna.
Having been re-elected to the Rajya Sabha, it was time for Jaya Bachchan to treat her Samajwadi Party colleagues in Parliament for the trust reposed in her by the party.
On Tuesday, two women journalists approached Farooq Abdullah with microphones. He playfully pretended that he wanted to run away and said: “Someone please save me from these ladies.”
Mamata Banerjee is slated to meet NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday at the latter’s residence; the duo earlier met in Kolkata when Pawar flew there.
With elections to a dozen seats for the state legislative council likely to be announced soon, there was speculation whether Goyal will again be handed over the Uttar Pradesh assignment.



