Tag: Congress
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday targeted the Congress for "knowingly misleading" the people over the pricing of the Rafale fighter jets and hinting at corruption in the deal.....
In an apparent dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is yet to hold a press conference, his predecessor and Congress veteran Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said as Prime Minister, "he was never afraid of speaking to the press".....
The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Friday after vociferous protests by the opposition over various issues, including the Rafale deal, bonded labourers rescued in Karnataka, Delhi sealing and Cauvery water dispute. ....
BJP chief Amit Shah said on Sunday that the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in 2019 will not be ordinary elections and called for dislodging what he said anti-national forces engaged in politics of appeasement on the lines of what the country witnessed in 1977 polls post-Emergency.....
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday lauded the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for cracking the "dangerous terrorist module" and defended the government's decision on monitoring of computers by 10 security and intelligence agencies, asking: "Would this crackdown of the terrorist module by the NIA have been possible without interception of electronic communications?"....
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a controversial bill that criminalises the practice of triple talaq among Muslims, amidst walkout by the Congress and the BJP ally AIADMK as opposition parties attacked the government saying the measure was aimed at political gains in view of the coming general elections.....
Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, surrendered in a city court on Monday.....
The Congress on Tuesday launched a frontal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal after the Supreme Court reinstated Alok Verma as the CBI Director.....
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav will hold a joint press conference here on Saturday, an official said on Friday.....
BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday said although the party lost in the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh Assembly polls, it has not been defeated yet.....