PARLIAMENT PASSES BILL ALLOWING STATES, UTS TO PREPARE OBC LISTS

August 12, 2021

A day after being passed by the Lok Sabha, the 127th Constitution Amendment Bill was also approved by the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. The bill was brought to restore the power to states to make their own OBC list. Now this bill will be presented to the President and with...

NO ONE ARRESTED FOR 2020 VIOLENCE AT JNU: GOVERNMENT IN LOK SABHA

August 4, 2021

Even after a year and a half, no arrest has been made in the case of masked people entering the JNU campus and causing violence. The Union Home Ministry on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha about this. In January 2020, masked people entered the JNU campus in Delhi and caused...

Congress politicising Assam-Mizoram tension: 16 BJP MPs to PM Modi

August 3, 2021

A delegation of 16 BJP MPs from Northeast met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday and submitted a memorandum amid the ongoing border dispute in Assam and Mizoram. These MPs alleged that the Congress is playing politics over the recent conflict in Assam and Mizoram and want to throw the...

THIS I-DAY, PAKISTAN PLANS TO PUSH TERROR THROUGH SKIES

August 2, 2021

After facing a series of setbacks at the hands of India’s security forces on the ground, especially in the year 2021, Pakistan is now trying to spread terror through the skies. A conspiracy is being hatched in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir to carry out a major attack on the occasion of 15...

GOVT CALLS PEGASUS ‘NON-ISSUE’, OPPOSITION BLOCKS PARLIAMENT

July 31, 2021

With Opposition members continuing to disrupt Parliament over the alleged Pegasus snooping issue, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday said the controversy was a “non-issue” and that the government was ready for discussion on people-related issues. Calling the Opposition behaviour “unfortunate”, the Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister urged the protesting members to...

TERRORISTS IN KASHMIR SHUNNING MOBILES TO ESCAPE SECURITY RADAR

July 26, 2021

A new intelligence report says that terrorist organisations operating in Kashmir have come up with a new trick to avoid being tracked by security forces. They are now going for a minimal mobile phone usage and are being encouraged to instead use physical intelligence. The ISI has also directed them...

PEGASUS ROW BID TO MALIGN INDIAN DEMOCRACY: IT MINISTER

July 23, 2021

The monsoon session has so far been a tumultuous one. However, the maximum ruckus till now occurred on Thursday, with things reaching such a point that when Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnav was giving a statement on the Pegasus espionage case in the Rajya Sabha, TMC MP Shantanu Sen tore the...

Opposition disrupts Day 1 of monsoon session, PM calls it ‘anti-Dalit, woman’ mindset

July 20, 2021

The monsoon session of Parliament started from Monday amid the Covid-19 crisis, but due to the uproar of the Opposition, the proceedings of both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned till 11 am on Tuesday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not allowed to introduce new ministers in the Lok Sabha....

PM chairs first in-person Union Cabinet meet in 15 months, approves 28% DA to Central employees

July 15, 2021

The Union Cabinet meeting was held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence on Wednesday. This was the first time in 15 months that the Prime Minister and all the ministers were present face to face. Almost every week in the lockdown, such meetings were being held only through video conferencing....

PM Modi meets N-E CMs, concerned over big crowds in hill stations, markets

July 14, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday discussed the situation of coronavirus in the Northeast. It was attended by the Chief Ministers of Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tripura and Nagaland. During the interaction, PM Modi expressed concern over a possible third wave. He said that it is not...