Politics Today

After the successful completion of National Register of Citizens exercise in Assam, the state’s chief minister, Sarbananda Sonowal, demanded that NRC be introduced at national level. He claimed that “millions of illegal migrants” have settled in Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Delhi and the northeast Read More

The People’s Democratic Party decided to boycott the polls in upcoming municipal and panchayat elections in Jammu & Kashmir and appealed to the Centre to review its decision to hold the elections in the valley due to the “environment of insecurity” Read More

The Congress and other opposition parties jointly called for a nationwide shutdown (Bharat bandh), on Monday, to protest against the Narendra Modi government’s failure to control the rising prices of petrol and diesel in the country. Read More

The Bhartiya Janta Party concluded its two-day national executive meeting with a resolution that sets the tone for the party’s strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. It showers praises on PM Modi and assails the opposition for its “lack of policy and leadership”. Read More

The Supreme Court sought the Centre’s response on a bunch of pleas that seeks the court to declare the new amendments in the SC/SC Act as ultra vires. Parliament had passed a bill to overturn a Supreme Court order concerning certain safeguards against arrest under the act. Read More

Former PM Manmohan Singh launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him failures that led to agrarian and economic crisis. He also accused his government of undermining democratic values. Read More

A Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA’s son was arrested for allegedly issuing a death threat to Congress MP Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia on Facebook. The accused is the son of the BJP MLA from Hatta in Madhya Pradesh. Read More

Lois Sofia, 22, who lives in Canada, reportedly shouted “fascist BJP government down, down” at the Tamil Nadu BJP president, Tamilisai Soundararajan, on board a plane they were travelling in. Read More

The Congress president, Rahul Gandhi, asked for help from his party members to advise him with the best strategies to win the 2019 Lok Sabha election. He will also hold a meeting with his party members soon. Read More

Blaming the “faulty” policies of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu said the price of petrol would soon touch Rs 100 a litre and the US dollar will also cost the same against the Indian rupee. Read More