New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh on Thursday criticised the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for including critical references to the judiciary in its textbooks.Reacting to the Supreme Court’s observations on the matter, Ramesh described the decade-long rewriting of textbooks as “disgraceful” and “dangerous.”In a post on X, the Rajya Sabha MP alleged the revisions were an “RSS-driven exercise full of mischief and …
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New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday condemned the arrest of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) President Uday Bhanu Chib and Youth Congress workers over the shirtless protest at the India AI Impact Summit, stating that the INC strongly denounces the police action. He further said that this was nothing but politics of harassment. Jairam Ramesh took to social media platform X and said, “The INC condemns in the strongest possible terms the…
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) The Congress on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the Centre over the reported India–US trade understanding, with senior leaders alleging that the proposed arrangement is “one-sided”, detrimental to farmers, and amounts to yielding under pressure rather than securing a balanced deal.Speaking to IANS, Congress General Secretary and Rajya Sabha member Jairam Ramesh warned that the agreement would lead to immediate liberalisation of imports while offering uncertain export…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh has hailed the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that struck down most of the sweeping tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. In a post on his X handle, Ramesh wrote, “Hats off to the US Supreme Court for striking down President Trump’s entire tariff strategy! Quite an amazing decision given its ideological composition. A 6-3 verdict is decisive.”The ruling delivered on Friday marks a major setba…
Bhopal, Feb 20 (IANS) Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will visit Bhopal on February 24 to lead a major protest against the interim India-US trade framework, which the party alleges severely harms Indian farmers by opening doors to cheaper US imports. Madhya Pradesh Congress President Jitu Patwari announced the visit, stating: “On February 24, 2026, in Bhopal, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge ji and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi wi…
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a writ petition filed by Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh challenging the grant of ex-post facto environmental clearances (EC).In November last year, a three-judge Bench had allowed a review petition and recalled its earlier May 2025 judgment in the Vanashakti case, which had restrained the Union government from granting post-facto ECs.The review judgment had revived the 2017 notification and 2021 Office …
New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) As the United States and India have finalised an interim trade agreement that cuts US tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday criticised the development, saying the US-India Joint Statement issued so far is silent on key details. Taking to social media platform X, Ramesh said, “The United States-India Joint Statement just issued is silent on details.”He added that, based on what has been revealed, India would no longer …
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Sticking to its combative stand in the Lok Sabha, the Congress on Thursday claimed that there was nothing unprecedented about the Leader of the House being prevented from replying to the Motion of Thanks by protesting Opposition members.Jairam Ramesh, Congress MP and party General Secretary incharge of communications, shared an old video footage of Lok Sabha proceedings in which the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh informs the House that he was prevented from replyin…
New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh launched a sharp critique of the India-US trade deal on Wednesday, terming the statement delivered by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal in both Houses of Parliament as a complete “non-statement” that offers no substantive details. Ramesh pointed out that negotiations on critical aspects of the agreement are still ongoing, rendering Goyal’s pronouncements “contradictory” to official communications from the Uni…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, on Tuesday, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being “compromised” and “under pressure”, claiming that this is the reason behind the signing of the India-US trade agreement.India and the United States finalised a trade deal on Monday following a telephonic conversation between Prime Minister Modi and US President Donald Trump.As part of the agreement, US tariffs on Indian goods were reduced to 18 per cent, whil…