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Govt murders RTI, tweets Rahul Gandhi, days after bill passes Rajya Sabha test

The Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill proposing amendments to Right to Information Act. The Narendra Modi government then cleared a major legislative hurdle in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday when it managed to pass the amendments in the Upper House as well.

Updated on Jul 27, 2019, 8:57 PM IST

BJP trying to break own record, says Nadda, eyes 20-crore mark

BJP working president JP Nadda addressing a press conference at BJP headquarters.

Updated on Jul 27, 2019, 5:54 PM IST

Left party wants permission to hold anti-BJP meet in Bengal. Mamata says yes

In September 2017, the government denied permission for BJP president Amit Shah’s meeting at Netaji Indoor Stadium saying that it was already booked.

Updated on Jul 27, 2019, 7:58 PM IST

First 50 days of BJP govt exemplary: BJP working president JP Nadda

BJP National Working President JP Nadda

Published on Jul 27, 2019, 1:54 PM IST

As session gets extra time, govt eyes passage of labour code and key bills

Lower House cleared the Triple Talaq bill.

Updated on Jul 26, 2019, 3:17 AM IST

Amit Shah to head new GoM on prevention of sexual harassment at work place

The committee after meeting a few times before the 2019 elections had asked a committee of officials to come up with model rules.

Updated on Jul 24, 2019, 8:28 PM IST

Why institutional accountability matters

The government must rethink its priorities, and the opposition and civil society must keep a careful watch on its actions

Published on Jul 23, 2019, 6:51 PM IST

Seat sharing talks in NDA, GA for Bihar assembly by polls to be tricky affair

The BJP is keen on contesting at least two of the five Bihar assembly seats while the LJP is eyeing one seat.

Published on Jul 22, 2019, 3:25 PM IST

Start work in all Assembly seats: Nadda to Maharashtra BJP unit

(From left) State BJP chief Chandrakant Patil, BJP’s national working president JP Nadda and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis at the party office in Dadar, on Saturday.

Updated on Jul 21, 2019, 12:47 AM IST

Division in Congress over court ruling on Karnataka rebels

Questioning the ruling, he asked, “Does this mean Court can interfere with the working of the State Legislature by deciding when a Whip will be enforced? And abandonment of the Basic Structure doctrine of Separation of Powers?”

Updated on Jul 18, 2019, 1:12 AM IST

‘Jammu and Kashmir, a three-point political charter’, writes Omar Abdullah

The BJP must resist the temptation to extend central rule in Jammu and Kashmir.

Updated on Jul 15, 2019, 9:34 AM IST

Budget ’19: Betrayal of the mandate

Minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman addresses the media during a press conference after presenting the Union Budget 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha, National Media Centre, New Delhi, July 05, 2019

Published on Jul 8, 2019, 7:58 AM IST

Budget ensures basic amenities to weak: Arun Jaitley

Besides the income-tax exemption limit having been increased to <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>5 lakh in the interim budget a few months ago, several sectors of interest to the middle and neo-middle class have been incentivised, he said in his Facebook blog, ‘The Budget 2019-20’.

Updated on Jul 9, 2019, 7:26 AM IST

Opposition calls budget insipid, says no attention to farm, rural areas

Congress leader P Chidambaram addresses the media, after the presentation of Union Budget 2019-20 at the Lok Sabha, in New Delhi, Friday, July 5, 2019.

Updated on May 28, 2020, 9:15 PM IST

Budget 2019: What’s costlier and what’s cheaper

Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2019 did not announce any change in personal income tax rates for the middle class in her budget speech but proposed to hike the tax for the super rich.

Updated on May 28, 2020, 10:31 PM IST

Budget 2019: ‘Har Ghar Jal’ for all rural houses by 2024, says Nirmala Sitharaman

The finance minister said as much as 95 per cent of all cities have become open defecation free and 9.6 crore toilets have been constructed since October 2014.

Updated on Jul 5, 2019, 1:11 PM IST

‘We have set the ball rolling for new India’: Sitharaman in Budget speech

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Friday said the NDA government had set the ball rolling for a ‘New India’ in its first term and programmes will be accelerated and red tape reduced going forward.

Updated on Jul 5, 2019, 11:34 AM IST

Union Budget 2019: Meet the minds behind the mega exercise

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at Parliament House to present the Union Budget in New Delhi on Friday.

Updated on Jul 5, 2019, 10:54 AM IST

Economic Survey pegs India’s growth at 7% for 2019-20

India continues to remain the fastest growing major economy in the world in 2018-19, despite a slight moderation in its GDP growth from 7.2 per cent in 2017-18 to 6.8 per cent in 2018-19.

Updated on Jul 4, 2019, 4:35 PM IST

India needs 8% GDP growth to be $5 trillion economy by 2025: Economic Survey

PM Modi had said that the target can be achieved with the concerted efforts of states and asking them to recognise their core competence and work towards raising their gross domestic product targets right from the district level.

Updated on Jul 4, 2019, 12:31 PM IST

Economy to rebound from 5-yr low, grow by 7% in 2019-20, says Economic Survey

Economy to rebound from 5-yr low, grow by 7% in 2019-20, says Economic Survey

Updated on Jul 4, 2019, 1:16 PM IST

Economic Survey to have out-of-box ideas for long-term economic revival

Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the Chief Economic Advisor, may try to give not-to-common ideas on the key indices which are facing challenges.

Updated on Jul 4, 2019, 7:52 AM IST

Economic Survey to chart out reform road map of Modi 2.0 govt

The survey will come a day ahead of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the first budget of the Modi 2.0 government.

Updated on Jul 4, 2019, 10:59 AM IST

On Rae Bareli coach factory, Sonia Gandhi says govt selling assets; Rlys says ‘incorrect’

Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 2, 2019.

Updated on May 27, 2020, 5:45 PM IST

The Opposition’s efforts have failed

The politics of caste, region and religion-based alliances are over.

Published on Jul 1, 2019, 8:51 AM IST

Under Jal Shakti scheme, Centre to focus on replenishing water bodies

On June 22, the Prime Minister wrote letters to all village panchayat heads, urging them to undertake rainwater harvesting and water conservation activities in rural India.

Updated on Jul 1, 2019, 6:01 AM IST

US President Trump wants India to withdraw recently hiked tariffs

President Trump has pushed trade aggressively with all of America’s trading partners, and he now intends to bring it up with Prime Minister Modi at their upcoming meeting, which will be their first after the Indian leader’s re-election.

Updated on Jun 27, 2019, 8:40 PM IST

In Lok Sabha, minister Ravi Shankar Prasad countered by fellow party man

A ruling BJP member in the Lok Sabha countered Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s remarks that during calamities, only state-run telecom operators provide free services to subscribers.

Updated on Jun 26, 2019, 4:52 PM IST

Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya pedals to Parliament

The 47-year-old Patidar leader from Gujarat’s Bhavnagar district in Gujarat was the minister of state in charge of the ministry of road transport and highways, ministry of shipping and ministry of chemicals and fertilizers in the previous Modi government.

Updated on Jun 26, 2019, 1:17 PM IST

India and the US must aim to stabilise the trade ties

Many of the issues that constitute the present trade dispute are not new. However, under the Trump administration trade issues have achieved a new prominence and the US president will not budge on these issue with any country.

Updated on Jun 24, 2019, 8:31 PM IST

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