Politics Today

The Karnataka assembly speaker, KR Ramesh Kumar disqualified three rebel MLAs under the anti-defection law till the end of the term of current house. The speaker also ruled that the MLAs will not be able to contest or get elected to the assembly till the end of the term. Read More

The Indian Space Research Organization in a landmark mission, has successfully launched Chandrayan-2, carried by GSLV-Mark III, the most powerful rocket built so far by India, from the second launchpad at the Sriharikota spaceport. Read More

The number of casualtie in flood affected Assam and Bihar regions have risen to 166, on Sunday. Sixty-four deaths in Assam and 102 in Bihar have been reported since Saturday. Many wild animals have also perished in Assam, including 12 Indian rhinos. Read More

The Triple Talaq Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha in the ongoing monsoon session amid opposition from parties, may not pass through the Rajya Sabha. And the government seems to have understood the difficulty behind passing the bill into law. Read More

The government has planned to form a holding company named the Indian Railway Rolling Stock Company, like CRRC Corporation Limited of China, that will independently control and manage the private companies. Read More

Sheila Dikshit, senior Congress leader and three-time chief minister of Delhi, passed away. She was 81. Dikshit breathed her last soon after she was admitted to a Delhi heart hospital after she suffered a cardiac arrest earlier in the day. Read More

Three men were beaten to death at a village in Bihar's Saran district by a crowd that accused them of stealing cattle. Although, three men have been arrested in the case but the police have not yet verified if they killed in the attack. Read More

The Centre, while emphasizing the need for a large-scale re-verification exercise before the final National Citizens Register, asked the Supreme Court to extend the July 31 deadline for the Assam list. It said that it needed to tweak the process for inclusion of names in the list. Read More

Pakistan has announced that it will grant consular access to the death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav, a day after the International Court of Justice directed Pakistan to immediately inform Jadhav about his rights and provide him consular access. Read More

The income-tax department has recently attached a benami commercial plot in Noida belonging to the Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati’s brother and his wife. Read More