Politics Today

The finance ministry has placed restrictions on the entry of reporters into North Block, days after the pre-Budget quarantine period for two months got over. Only accredited journalists with prior appointment with a ministry official are allowed access in the ministry. Read More

Swiss authorities, with an adherence to the “Automatic Exchange of Information” (AEOI) agreement signed between India and Switzerland, are likely to share the volume of details of all Indian bank accounts in Switzerland with Indian tax authorities. Read More

The National Crime Records Bureau has commenced the process of installing AFRC that will host a web-based application of the AFRS at its data centre in Delhi with connectivity to police stations through the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems Read More

The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha by the home minister, Amit Shah, has attracted criticism from the opposition parties by calling it as a tool to violate the fundamental rights of citizens. Read More

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report which accused India of human-rights violation in Kashmir yet again. It has also warned Pakistan for detaining Kashmiri separatists in its part of disputed region. Read More

In a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling government, 21 Congress ministers and nine JDS ministers resigned from the state cabinet to placate the 14 rebel MLAs who withdrew their support to the Congress-JD(S) coalition government. Read More

The Indian Air Force’s pet project for 56 medium transport aircraft by the Tata-Airbus consortium is in the pipeline to get started this year, TOI has reported. Another long-pending “Make in India” plane project worth ₹1.5 lakh crore that involves 114 fighter jets is awaiting the final nod. Read More

A UP Roadways “Janrath” bus fell into a drain after skidding off the Yamuna Expressway resulting in the loss of lives of 29 people and leaving several others injured. The bus, which belonged to the UP Roadways’ Awadh Depot, was going to Delhi from Lucknow. Read More

The ruling Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka is facing a huge crisis following the resignation of 12 Congress legislators from the assembly, on Saturday. This started with two Congress MLAs resigning, on Monday. Read More

Following the resignation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress’s president, Milind Deora, president of Congress’s Mumbai unit and Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress general secretary in charge of western UP, have submitted their resignations from their respective party posts. Read More