In a surprising turn of events in Rajasthan’s Rajya Sabha election, a new BJP-backed independent candidate has entered the race. The media baron Subhash Chandra’s last-minute nomination has sparked a race for a seat in Rajasthan, where elections are scheduled for next year. The Continue Reading
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Navjot Singh Sidhu, a jailed Congress leader, has been assigned to work as a’munshi’ (assistant) in the Patiala central prison, where he is serving a one-year sentence for a 1988 road rage death case. According to a jail official, the 58-year-old cricketer-turned-politician will only work from his barrack for security reasons. Prisoners are classified as […]Continue Reading
Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal announced his departure from the Congress party today, just hours after filing his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha as an independent candidate backed by the Samajwadi Party. “I resigned from the Congress party on May 16,” Kapil Sibal told reporters, revealing details that had been kept under wraps since […]Continue Reading
Palanivel Thiagarajan, the Finance Minister of Tamil Nadu, made no apologies for criticising Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday for “exhorting” states to reduce their share of gasoline and diesel taxes, saying his state did not need “dictation from people who perform worse than us.” “We have one of the best statistical results Continue Reading
Wrestler Dalip Singh Rana, also known as The Great Khali, said on Monday that he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party almost three months ago after being “impressed” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ideology. Khali also told ANI that he is proud of his decision to join the BJP. Khali made his comments after meeting with […]Continue Reading
Hardik Patel resigned from the Congress today, slamming Rahul Gandhi, who had brought him into the party in 2019. In the letter bomb that embarrasses the party just after its revival strategy meeting, he claims that top leaders “were distracted by their mobile phones” and that the Gujarat Congress leadership was more interested in ensuring […]Continue Reading
Karti Chidambaram, who is being investigated for alleged bribery in a new case, tweeted today that he has “lost count” of the number of cases filed against him. Mr Chidambaram made the remarks after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) searched multiple residential and official locations linked to him today. “I’ve lost track of how […]Continue Reading
Home Minister Amit Shah, who is in Kolkata for a visit, had dinner tonight with Indian cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly. The visit was described as a courtesy call because the former cricketer’s colleague, Union Minister Jay Shah, serves as Honorary Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, or BCCI. In a […]Continue Reading
Prashant Kishor, who today announced his Mission Bihar but no political party, as had been widely speculated, dodged a question about whether his talks with the Congress were over or merely on hold. The election strategist also stated that he was too small a fish for Rahul Gandhi to have any trust issues. “With Rahul […]Continue Reading
Union Minister Smriti Irani has arrived in Rahul Gandhi’s constituency of Wayanad, igniting speculation about the politics behind the trip and the BJP’s plans in Kerala, amid a war of words between the Congress and the BJP over a video of the Congress leader attending a party in Nepal. At many levels, the visit by […]Continue Reading



















