The Congress on Wednesday said it found no reason to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Ramnath Goenka Lecture, and wondered how party leader Shashi Tharoor found a reason to do so, ANI reported.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday (November 17, 2025) wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating her request to the Union government to revoke the appointment of a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer as an interlocutor for holding discussions on issues related to the Gorkhas of the Darjeeling hills.
The NDA is expected to apply the same formula for portfolio allocation that it used during ticket distribution, coalition insiders indicated. Under the emerging arrangement, Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) will continue to hold the Chief Minister’s post. Meanwhile, the BJP and Chirag Paswan’s LJP (Ram Vilas) are each likely to secure one Deputy Chief Minister position, signalling a balanced power-sharing structure within the alliance.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday disqualified senior political leader Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for violating the anti-defection law.
The Congress on Thursday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should immediately chair an all-party meeting in the aftermath of the Delhi blast and asked whether the “new normal doctrine” defined by the government following the Pahalgam attack of treating any future terror strike as an ‘act of war’ stands.
BJP National General Secretary B. L. Santhosh, along with Northeast Coordinator Sambit Patra, arrived in Manipur on Wednesday and held a crucial meeting with BJP MLAs at the party’s state headquarters in Imphal. The meeting was presided over by State President A. Sarda Devi. The closed-door session was attended by BJP MLAs from both the hills and the valley, including former Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, Speaker Th. Satyabrata Singh, and Rajya Sabha MP Leishemba Sanajaoba. However, MLAs from the Kuki community were notably absent.
A 31-member Parliamentary Joint Committee headed by BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi was constituted on Wednesday (November 12, 2025) to review the three Bills that seek to remove Ministers — of Union and State governments, including Prime Minister and Chief Ministers — facing serious criminal charges.
Bihar is trapped in a fiscal cycle where debt sustains expenditure but rarely builds assets. Here is a state which behind electoral fervour and populist promises struggling to balance ambition with capacity.
The Opposition Mahagathbandhan “no holds barred” campaign centred around the “vote chori” allegations and the spirited efforts by Prashant Kishor’s fledgling Jan Suraaj Party will fail to dethrone the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar, or so predict the exit polls. The average of all exit polls foretells a sweeping victory for the ruling alliance in Bihar.
In the run-up to the West Bengal Assembly elections slated for March-April next year, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the principal Opposition BJP are caught in a new conflict, this time over two of the state’s cultural icons – Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
