Author: Esha Ghosh
In a significant move to enforce party discipline, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) accepted the resignation of senior Parliament member Kalyan Banerjee from his position as Lok Sabha Chief Whip.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has once again blamed the Central Government and the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for the ongoing flood situation in the state, calling it mainly “man-made.”
Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will host a dinner meeting for leaders of the INDIA bloc in New Delhi on Thursday, August 7. This bloc was formed ahead of the Lok Sabha elections last year.
After spending nine days in custody and facing a political uproar, two Catholic nuns from Kerala, Sister Preethi Mary and Sister Vandana Francis, were granted bail and released from Durg Central Jail in Chhattisgarh.
A strong magnitude 8.8 earthquake, one of the strongest recorded in recent history, hit off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami waves that reached Japan’s northern coast. The shallow underwater quake sent shockwaves across the Pacific and led to widespread tsunami warnings and evacuations in several countries.
The world’s most expensive civilian Earth imaging satellite, NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite), has launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh and has reached its orbit.
The Supreme Court has once again urged the Election Commission to accept the Aadhaar card and the electoral photo identity card as valid documents for confirming voter identity during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral polls going on in Bihar.
After a stampede near the Mansa Devi temple in Haridwar killed eight people on Sunday morning, the police have filed a report against unknown individuals for spreading rumors about a broken electrical wire, which likely triggered a panic and led to the tragedy.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) began training Booth Level Officers in West Bengal on Saturday, while concerns have been raised that a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls being conducted in adjacent poll-bound Bihar will also be conducted in the state. West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal did not rule out during the training session that SIR would be conducted in the state as well.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) on Thursday served a show-cause notice to its MP Girdhari Yadav his inflammatory comments on the current special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. The notice alleged that the comments “inadvertently lent credibility to the baseless and politically motivated allegations made by the Opposition.”