Politics Today

A day after a deadly attack by the Jaish-e-Mohammed on a CRPF convoy in Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama, China once again refused to back India’s appeal at UN security council to designate Jaish-e-Muhammed chief Masood Azhar a global terrorist. Read More

A day after over 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in the deadliest terror attack on security forces in Jammu & Kashmir, the Indian government has withdrawn “most favoured nation” or MFN status accorded to Pakistan. Read More

Over 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed in one of the deadliest terror attacks in Jammu & Kashmir in decades when a Jaish-e-Muhammed suicide bomber rammed a vehicle carrying over 300kg of explosives into their bus. Read More

Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy led a dharna with some of his cabinet colleagues and MLAs, accusing lieutenant governor Kiran Bedi of “acting against the Constitution and the Rules of Business of Government of Pondicherry, 1963”. Read More

While expressing disappointment that his recommendations in appointment of state backward castes panel members have been “ignored”, UP cabinet minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said he would relinquish the charge of the backward class welfare department. Read More

Police, on Wednesday, said the clashes followed a protest against an alleged attack on a visiting news crew from Republic TV, which went there to cover a scheduled visit by AIMIM leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi. Read More

In the rally, titled “Remove Dictatorship, Save Democracy”, the leaders slammed the BJP government by calling it a “threat to democracy” and said it must be defeated in the coming general election. Read More

Amid a huge protest by gujjars, which has paralysed road and rail traffic since last week, the Congress government in Rajasthan passed a bill granting 5 per cent reservation for the community and four other communities in jobs and education. Read More

In its report, the CAG said the new deal negotiated by the NDA government to procure 36 fighter jets was 2.86 per cent cheaper than the price offered to the UPA government in 2007 by Dassault Aviation. Read More

Ram’s report also says the officials had also expressed concern, in their note, about government’s decision to settle for “letter of comfort” instead of sovereign guarantee from the French government. Read More