President of the Maldives The Maldives has fully repaid a $150 million Treasury bill facility subscribed by the State Bank of India (SBI) in 2019, with the final $50 million tranche settled on September 17, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Friday.MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the facility had been extended six times,…
NEW DELHI: The Congress and TMC on Friday mounted a joint attack on the ruling BJP following the arrest of Milan Pradhan, the Congress candidate for the upcoming Nandigram bypoll in West Bengal.Both parties pointed to two key factors surrounding Pradhan’s arrest: that it stemmed from an old case, and that it occurred just hours…
Sachin Pilot with Charanjit Singh Channi and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring during a protest to demand justice for the late Gulzar Singh in Chandigarh on Tuesday. NEW DELHI: The Congress in Punjab has finally hit the ground running. Sachin Pilot, who replaced Bhupesh Baghel as the party’s state in-charge, successfully navigated the state unit out…
Mamata Banerjee faction got ‘football player’ as its symbol. For 28 years, TMC has been Mamata Banerjee and Mamata Banerjee has been TMC in West Bengal; the two are almost synonymous with each other. And for voters, the political shorthand for Mamata Banerjee has been almost absurdly simple: two flowers on grass.Now, that shorthand has…
TMC to skip Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress‘ Assam unit has decided not to contest the upcoming Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll in protest against the Election Commission‘s decision to freeze the party’s name and election symbol, the state convenor said.The party had earlier announced Abdul Salam as its candidate for the…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday claimed that its candidate for the upcoming Nandigram assembly bypoll, Milan Pradhan, has been arrested, with the development coming hours after the TMC’s Mamata Banerjee faction extended its support to the Congress for the October 6 byelection.According to a senior leader of the Congress’ West Bengal unit, Pradhan was…
Tamil Nadu govt to provide one-gram gold rings to newborns NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay will launch the one-gram gold ring scheme for newborns on September 28, the state government said. The one-gram gold rings will be provided to babies born in government hospitals under the scheme.The rings will have a…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday claimed that its candidate for the upcoming Nandigram assembly bypoll, Milan Pradhan, has been arrested, with the development coming hours after the TMC’s Mamata Banerjee faction extended its support to the Congress for the October 6 byelection.According to a senior leader of the Congress’ West Bengal unit, Pradhan was…
Kiren Rijiju hits back at Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju hit back at the Congress over its allegations that the BJP breaks other political parties, saying the charge should instead be directed at the Congress itself.“What Rahul Gandhi and Congress should be saying for themselves is what they are saying for the…
Mamata Banerjee has rejected the Election Commission’s new party name and symbol for her faction, calling the move “unconstitutional, illegal, undemocratic” as the TMC split deepens. She called the internal factional dispute in TMC, a “black day” in India’s democratic history. A suicide blast at a mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…