Author: Manish Suresh

As trade unions called for a two-day Bharat bandh, several states including Kerala and Haryana were found disturbed from day-to-day lifestyles. While the two-day nationwide strike called by major trade unions to protest against the central government’s alleged wrong policies failed to evoke much response in the BJP-ruled Tripura on Monday, the first day of the stir, officials said. Attendance in government offices and educational institutions was normal.   Private schools, however, remained shut for the safety of students due to the wake of the protests. Vehicles were seen plying on roads while train services and flight operations were normal. Banks,…

More than half of the whole child population in Ukraine have been displaced from their homes since Russia launched a full-scale invasion on February 24, the United Nations said. One month of war in Ukraine has led to the displacement of 4.3 million child population, which accounts for more than half of the country’s estimated 7.5 million child population, the UN children’s agency UNICEF said in a statement, adding that 1.8 million children had fled the country as refugees and 2.5 million were now displaced in Ukraine. Earlier this month, Russian forces were held for questioning by Ukraine after Russian…

Yogi Adityanath will be sworn in as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister for a record second straight term tomorrow, likely with 45 ministers, sources said today, and hours after a late-night meeting of the BJP leadership. Yogi Adityanath met Amit Shah, Union Home Minister and BJP chief JP Nadda last evening to finalize the names for his cabinet ahead of the oath ceremony on Friday. The party has proved the speculation that a disagreement over cabinet names has held up the swearing-in wrong. Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are “completely in sync” on cabinet names, sources said, downplaying any…

In the wake of increased petrol and diesel prices, the opposition party is raising voice against the ruling party. The Congress on Wednesday levelled up its attack on the BJP government after petrol and diesel prices were raised by 80 paisa for the second day in a row and said it would protest both inside and outside Parliament.  “We will continue to protest both inside and outside Parliament against this unjustified price hike. The government is looting Rs 10,000 crore from this price hike,” Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge told reporters.  A record 137-day hiatus in…

he House carrying placards, Congress, Left, Samajwadi Party and Shiv Sena MPs were up on their feet, some raising slogans.  This happened after Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu said he has not accepted notices given by Shaktisinh Gohil (Congress), Dola Sen (TMC), V Sivadasan, Elamaram Kareem and John Brittas (CPM) under rule 267, requiring setting aside of the listed agenda to take up a discussion.   The Rajya Sabha was adjourned twice in the morning session on today, March 22 as Opposition parties, including the Congress and TMC, voiced their protest against the increase in the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking…

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to announce the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand after a meeting of newly elected members of legislative assembly MLA in Dehradun on Monday. The MLAs took oath of office at 11 am today. Defence minister Rajnath Singh and minister of state for external affairs Meenakshi Lekhi will be present in the meeting of MLAs that will finalize the next chief minister of the hilly state. Meanwhile, Uttarakhand’s newly-elected MLAs swearing-in as members of the Legislative Assembly is currently in process. Union home minister Amit Shah had held a meeting with Dhami on Sunday. Senior leaders,…

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has set targets for each minister in his cabinet and if that is not met, the people “can demand that the minister be removed,” Aam Aadmi Party chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today.  Bhagwant Mann has “covered a lot of ground within just three days”, he said, pointing to the initial announcements by the new government. Mr Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party won a massive mandate in Punjab in the recently commenced assembly elections and Mr Mann took oath as the Chief Minister earlier this week. The new Chief Minister, Mr Kejriwal said,…

  Russian force was held for questioning by Ukraine after Russian forces bombed a theatre where civilians were sheltering in the besieged southern city of Mariupol. Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov told the BBC that between 1,000 and 1,200 people had sought refuge in the building. While the number of sufferers is still unclear, a local MP said the basement where people were gathered had withstood the bombing.   “It looks like most of them have survived,” Dmytro Gurin told the BBC. But Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the city’s mayor, earlier said emergency workers were struggling to reach the building due…

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised ‘The Kashmir Files’, a film based on the migration of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s, Bal Thackrey led Shiv Sena on Wednesday pointed the BJP by claiming that the party is “cashing in on a fake narrative”. Shiv sena, through its newspaper ‘Saamna’, also questioned as to why the Congress government was unable to answer that the exodus happened during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led VP Singh government in the Centre and the then Jammu and Kashmir’s Governor was also close to the party at that time. PM…

A day-long meeting of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) was set to review the progress made by the Centre on the promises made to farmers so far. The key meeting included the discussions about setting up a panel on MSP, and decide the future course of action. On Monday, the closed-door meeting was held at the Gandhi Peace Foundation at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, The SKM had spearheaded a year-long unrest against the Centre’s three farm laws. It had also suspended the stir on December 9 last year after the government revoked the contentious laws and agreed to consider its…