Politics Today

After Congress chief Rahul Gandhi announced that he wants to quit the party as its chief, three state Congress chiefs have resigned after the party’s poor performance in 2019 Lok Sabha poll taking the total number of state unit chiefs expressing their desire to quit from three to six. Read More

Mohammad Qasim, a Muslim youth and a vendor who goes around on his two-wheeler selling household goods in the rural areas, was shot at in Begusarai district of Bihar. Qasim said his attacker asked about his religion and told to go to Pakistan. Read More

The government has invited leaders of the BIMSTEC countries, which includes Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan, for Modi’s swearing-in ceremony as the prime minister. However, it has not extended an invitation to Pakistani PM Imran Khan. Read More

After Congress president Rahul Gandhi told the party that he wants to quit as its chief over the party’s abysmal performance in the Lok Sabha election, it fuelled speculations on the future of the party and its leadership. Read More

A tribal theatre activist, Jeetrai Hansda, has been arrested in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Jharkhand almost two years after he posted a comment asserting his community’s right to eat beef. Read More

Two days after BJP’s Smriti Irani pulled off the biggest upset in Lok Sabha election by beating Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, her close associate from the constituency, Surendra Singh, was shot dead at his residence. Read More

After the announcement of the Lok Sabha and the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections results, the next chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There are speculation that his YSRCP may join the BJP-led NDA. Read More

During his 75-minute speech addressing the newly elected NDA members of Parliament, Narendra Modi advised the MPs to exercise restraint while speaking in public and emphasized that his government would push towards winning the trust of the minority communities. Read More

Two men were tied to a tree and thrashed by a group along with a woman being hit repeatedly with a slipper on her head for allegedly carrying beef in an autorickshaw at a village in Madhya Pradesh. Read More

A major fire broke out at a coaching centre killing at least 20 students and injuring several of them, in Sarthana area of Surat, Gujarat. Read More