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NEW DELHI: Big political personalities were humbled in the latest round of assembly elections, with voters across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala delivering a “vote for change” that swept aside as many as 50 ministers – including two sitting chief ministers – alongside several high-profile challengers in other states and a Union Territory.In West…
NEW DELHI: Constitutional position is unambiguous on a CM refusing to resign after her defeat in an assembly election — once the polls have been concluded and certificates issued to the elected MLAs by the EC, the outgoing House automatically stands dissolved and its successor has to be constituted with the appointment of a new…
Amit Shah and Suvendu Adhikari (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: Pitting Suvendu Adhikari — who defeated CM Mamata Banerjee in his turf, Nandigram, in 2021 — against her in Bhabanipur was only the beginning of Union minister Amit Shah’s determined bid to take down the TMC supremo in her backyard. What followed was precise execution of gruelling…
NEW DELHI: A nine-judge Supreme Court bench led by CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday said the SC in 2006 should have outrightly “thrown in the dustbin’ the original PIL that led to quashing of Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple custom restricting entry of women in the 10 to 50 age group. “All India Young Lawyers Association’, which…
KOLKATA: The assembly poll verdict in Bengal triggered a spiral of violence across the state, leaving at least four people dead, dozens injured and party offices ransacked, as rival cadres from Trinamool Congress and BJP clashed in multiple districts overnight. Two deaths were reported in Kolkata within 24 hours. In Beleghata, Trinamool poll agent Biswajit…
This will be the second round of questioning by ED of Sujit Bose (right), former fire minister who was defeated Monday, and Rathin Ghosh, food minister who won from Madhyamgram seat NEW DELHI: As it reels under the trauma of the poll debacle, more trouble seems headed TMC’s way with ED set to question party…
Vande Mataram (Image/ANI) NEW DELHI: In its first decision after sweeping the Bengal polls, Cabinet Tuesday approved a proposal to amend the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act to put National Song Vande Mataram, composed by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, on the same footing as the National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana. At present, the law…
NEW DELHI: The drill for formation of a BJP govt in WB has kicked in, with the outgoing assembly set to be dissolved anytime and newly elected BJP MLAs likely to endorse party’s CM pick before May 9. Home minister Amit Shah, who scripted BJP’s landslide win, is likely to preside over the meeting of…
CHENNAI: Falling at least 10 seats short of the simple majority mark in the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly to form govt, TVK president C Joseph Vijay has reached out to multiple parties, including allies of both DMK and AIADMK. Congress has sent positive signals to TVK, which on Tuesday staked claim to form the govt,…
VD Satheesan, KC Venugopal, Ramesh Chennithala (Images/Agencies) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Election won. Succession unsettled. Congress brass moved into overdrive Tuesday to pick Kerala’s next CM, with intense lobbying breaking out across factions after the party-led UDF’s emphatic victory, reports Rajiv G. The decision rests with LS opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, but consultations could stretch up to a…
