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Odisha Speaker Surama Padhy rejects Opposition demand to disqualify 11 MLAs

India, June 23 -- Odisha Assembly Speaker Surama Padhy has dismissed the Opposition BJD and Congress petitions to disqualify the membership of 11 of their MLAs on the charge of anti-party activities a... Read More


Bidadi row: Kumaraswamy challenges Karnataka CM Shivakumar to debate

India, June 23 -- JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Monday challenged Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar to an open debate on the proposed GBIT project near Bidadi in Bengaluru South district, and th... Read More


TMC rebel camp appoints Arup as faction chairperson

India, June 23 -- In a dramatic escalation of the battle for control of the TMC, the party's rebel faction, led by Leader of the Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, on Monday convened a special session in ... Read More


Jairam seeks clarification on Great Nicobar Island project's transhipment port

India, June 23 -- Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who has been raising concerns over the Great Nicobar Island (GNI) project, has written a letter to Union minister Sarbanand Sonowal, seeking clarificat... Read More


New policy formulated for evaluation of private CBSE students in Gulf countries: Centre to SC

India, June 23 -- The Centre on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the CBSE has come up with a new policy for the evaluation of private students, who were affected by the cancellation of Class XII... Read More


Factionalism, drift and decline: Congress's J and K challenge

India, June 23 -- Picking up from what one had written months back in this column on the endangered but truly portrayed Nehruvian model, based on plurality, secularism and multiculturalism, in demoted... Read More


West Bengal budget 2026: The BJP charts a new course

India, June 23 -- West Bengal's newly formed BJP government will presented its first full-year budget on June 22, 2026, against the backdrop of a long economic decline that the state has experienced o... Read More


K'taka cong chief regrets students missing NEET

Bengaluru, June 23 -- Amid a political row over National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (undergraduate) 2026 candidates reportedly facing difficulties to reach their exam centres for the retest, Karnat... Read More


CM Yogi inaugurates projects, launches fresh attack on SP

AGRA, June 23 -- Slamming the Samajwadi Party (SP), chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said turning celebrations into disturbances is on its agenda whereas the BJP government has made Uttar Prad... Read More


Oppn parties anxious over BSP fielding Brahmins for UP polls, says Maya

LUCKNOW, June 23 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday said her party has started fielding candidates from upper castes, particularly the Brahmin community, for the upcoming Uttar Prad... Read More