Kamal Nath: ‘Will enforce job quota in private sector in MP’

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath said to make it mandatory for the private sector units in the state to reserve 70 per cent of jobs for locals, being the first state in the country to enforce job quota in private sector through legislation. Read More
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Derek O’Brien says ‘BJP is the most corrupt party in the world’

Derek O’Brien of the Trinamul Congress termed the recent Lok Sabha as the most “unfair” and “unconstitutional” in the country’s history and said the Bharatiya Janata Party is the world’s most corrupt party. Read More
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Modi to BJP MPs: Take ‘padayatras’ to places where party is weak

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, said BJP MPs should hold padayatras (foot march) in their Lok Sabha constituencies totalling 150 kilometres from October 2 to 31, the birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. Read More
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Swamy ‘surprised’ after FIRs against him over remark on Rahul

Chhattisgarh Police have lodged a complaint against BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy for allegedly making false remarks against the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Swamy had alleged that Gandhi takes cocaine which was the reason for party’s disorder. Read More
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Mehbooba: Amarnath yatra tight security is to irk Kashmiris

Claiming that the arrangements made for the annual Amarnath yatra are causing inconvenience in the day-to-day lives of the people of Jammu & Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti has requested the governor, Satya Pal Malik, to intervene in the matter. Read More
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Giraraj Singh: Shabana Azmi is new leader of ‘tukde tukde gang’

Union minister Giraraj Singh called veteran actor Shabana Azmi, who is known to be quite vocal about her views on social and national issues, the “new leader” of “tukde tukde” and “award wapasi” gang. Read More
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Nirupam says Deora using resignation as ladder to climb up

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam, on Sunday, said the resignation of Milind Deora from the city unit's leadership position is on the expected lines. Read More
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Amartya Sen says ‘Jai Shri Ram is now used to beat up people’

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said the slogan “Jai Shri Ram” is being used to “beat up people” across the country. Sen said this at a public event in Kolkata’s Jadavpur University. Read More
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Congress’s Adhir Chowdhury says ‘Budget is old wine in new bottle’

After the members of BJP hailed the new Union Budget 2019 as one for a “New India” which laid the foundation for an inclusive and progressive nation, the Congress termed it as “old wine in new bottle”. Read More
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Urjit Patel: ‘Lack of timely govt action stoked bad-loan problems’

Former governor of Reserve Bank of India, Urjit Patel, in his first public appearance since his abrupt exit from the central bank as its governor in December 2018, gave a presentation at Stanford University’s annual conference on Indian economic policy on June 3-4. Read More
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