Upping the ante on Bihar SIR, the INDIA bloc parties — from the Left to the TMC to the Congress and AAP— came together on Wednesday to demand a discussion in Parliament, claiming that minorities, Dalits, and adivasis are facing the risk of losing their voting rights in the exercise.
August 5 marks the sixth anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, which led to Jammu and Kashmir losing its statehood and being divided into three Union Territories.
The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will set out on the ‘Matdata Adhikar (voters’ rights) Yatra’ in Bihar in three phases covering 30 districts from August 17.
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.
Grief-stricken parents of the RG Kar medical college victim on Saturday said they were reaching out to different political parties to join the August 9 Nabanna Abhijan (march to West Bengal secretariat) demanding justice for the medic who was raped-murdered at her workplace exactly one year ago.
The BJP flayed Rahul Gandhi on Thursday for “echoing” US President Donald Trump’s “dead economy” jibe at India, calling it a “shameful” insult to the aspirations, achievements and well-being of the people of the country as it asked the Congress leader why he “repeats” foreign propaganda that undermines the country.
A letter penned in 1971 by then prime minister Indira Gandhi to US President Richard Nixon has surfaced, in which she is asking him to “persuade Pakistan” to give up its “aggressive activities” against India two days after it attacked, triggering the Indo-Pakistan war that ended in the creation of Bangladesh.
In a major operation on Monday, security forces killed three militants hiding in the Dachigam forest, just outside Srinagar. The encounter, part of “Operation Mahadev”, took place after the Army received inputs about possible terrorist activity in the area.
