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File photo: Congress MP Manish Tewari (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari has introduced a private member’s bill in Lok Sabha that seeks to allow parliamentarians to take an independent line in voting on bills and motions other than those affecting govt’s stability. This he sees as a way of promoting good…
NEW DELHI: Governing BJP and opposition DMK members clashed in Lok Sabha on Friday when the issue of the lighting of a lamp at ‘Deepathoon’ at a hilltop temple close to a dargah near Madurai was raised by DMK MP T R Baalu.As Baalu accused BJP of trying to “ignite” communal tensions in Tamil Nadu,…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday agreed to Trinamool Congress‘s request for a meeting with the poll body, against the backdrop of the party attributing the recent suicides and deaths of booth level officers (BLOs) to “workload” arising out of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) in the state, reports Bharti Jain.Responding to the…
MI5 issues ‘espionage alert’: British intelligence alerts UK MPs; China trying to recruit parliamentarians via hiring agents, sitesBritish intelligence agency MI5 issued an “espionage alert” to members of parliament in the UK, warning that China is trying to hire parliamentarians. Security minister Dan Jarvis told AFP that, according to the agency’s warning, Chinese intelligence services…
Shehzad Poonawalla (ANI image) NEW DELHI: BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress after its MP Imran Masood referred to suicide bomber Umar Un Nabi as a “misguided youth”.Accusing the Opposition party of prioritising “vote bank niti over rashtra niti”, he said the Congress had repeatedly attempted to soften…
Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee fell victim to cyber fraud, with around Rs 56 lakh siphoned off from his bank account using another ‘dormant’ account linked to him. The bank has filed a complaint with Kolkata Police’s cybercrime unit, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. Between 2001 and 2006, when Banerjee was…
Kalyan Banerjee loses over Rs 55 Lakh in cyberfraud KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee allegedly fell victim to cyber fraud alleging that around Rs 56 lakh were siphoned from his bank account linked to his tenure as an MLA years ago. According to sources, the bank authorities themselves filed a complaint with the Kolkata…
Rohini Kalam Jujitsu player (Picture Credit: IG/senseirohinikalam) INDORE: Rohini Kalam, a 30-year-old Ju-Jitsu (martial art) athlete who represented India in the Asian Games and won bronze at the International Ju-Jitsu Competition in Abu Dhabi last year, was found hanging at her home in MP’s Dewas. Police suspect suicide but clarified that no note was recovered…
Fire at Brahmaputra Apartments, a Rajya Sabha members’ residential complex on Bishambhar Das Marg, New Delhi. NEW DELHI: A fire broke out at Brahmaputra Apartments, a residential complex in New Delhi, around early afternoon. The building, which houses members of the Rajya Sabha, is located on Bishambhar Das Marg in the capital. The fire department…
INDORE: Eleven people, including eight young girls, drowned on Thursday evening when a tractor-trolley carrying devotees for Durga idol immersion toppled into a pond in Khandwa district. The mishap occurred in Ardala village of Pandhana area, where residents of Padlafata from Rajgarh gram panchayat had gathered for the ritual.Witnesses said the trolley, laden with around…
