Vijay Rupani says relaxing lockdown isn’t for aiding Muslims

Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani said his state government’s move to allow some business to operate during the lockdown, after Centre’s nod for the same, wasn’t to facilitate Muslims during their holy month of Ramzan, as some “elements” are suggesting. Read More
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Mamata to PM: Centre must explain Covid-19 teams in Bengal

The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, wrote a letter to the prime minister, Narendra Modi, in which she asked to explain why the Centre wants to send teams to her state to examine alleged violations of the coronavirus lockdown. Read More
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Modi calls for unity, says ‘virus knows no religion, caste’

PM Narendra Modi called for unity and brotherhood in the country’s fight against coronavirus and said the virus doesn’t see religion and caste before infecting a victim. Read More
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Chidambaram says ‘what’s new in Modi’s message?’

Former finance minister P Chidambaram took a jibe at PMNarendra Modi after the latter’s address to the nation, in which he announced the extension of the lockdown to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, and accused him of neglecting the poor. Read More
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Sonia Gandhi: ‘Rahul’s warning helped Bhilwara tackle Covid-19’

Sonia Gandhi, the interim Congress president, has reportedly told her party chiefs from states that the Rajasthan government’s success in tackling Covid-19 in Bhilwara was the result of a “timely” warning from her son, former party president Rahul Gandhi. Read More
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Owaisi says ‘Supreme Court is supreme, but not infallible’

Reacting to the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute, Asaduddin Owaisi said the Supreme Court is supreme, but not infallible. He then attributed his quote to former Supreme Court judge Justice JS Verma. Read More
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Jaishankar: ‘POK is part of India and we expect to take it back’

The foreign minister, S Jaishankar, asserted that the part of Jammu & Kashmir that is occupied by Pakistan is an integral part of India and said India expects to take physical control of the region. Read More
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Mayawati calls Congress ‘cheat’ after 6 BSP MLAs switch party

In a major setback to the Bahujan Samaj Party, six party MLAs in Rajasthan switched sides and joined the Congress. She said the Congress party in Rajasthan, by creating a split among the BSP MLAs, has once again proved that it is untrustworthy and a cheat. Read More
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Amit Shah wonders if multi-party democratic system is a ‘failure’

Taking a dig at successive governments led by the Congress, the Union home minister, Amit Shah, on Tuesday, said during the Congress’s tenure, there was “policy paralysis” and the government had “no direction”. Read More
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BSY on Shah’s Hindi pitch: ‘We would never compromise’

Days after BJP president Amit Shah’s remark over Hindi language, BJP’s biggest leader in the south and Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa firmly said “no” to the party chief over the imposition of Hindi over non-Hindi-speaking states. Read More
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