New Delhi, May 7: There is a reflexive question that international observers tend to ask whenever military action occurs between India and Pakistan. Who escalated? The framing of the question is itself revealing. It assumes that escalation is the central issue. It assumes that the prior conduct, the planning, the funding, and the execution of terrorism are not, themselves, escalation. It assumes that the side that responds to a massacre with force is the side responsible for the conflict.Operati…
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New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Union Minister J.P. Nadda on Friday dismissed Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s remarks on fertiliser shortage as “politically motivated”, asserting that there is no crisis and that farmers are being misled.Taking to X, the Union Minister wrote, “The Leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha) Mallikarjun Kharge’s statement on fertiliser shortage is a politically motivated attempt to mislead farmers and manufacture panic where none exists”.”It is unfortunate that th…
New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday alleged that the government’s true intent is to alter the constitutional framework and concentrate executive power in its hands. He stated that the Congress in 2023, supported the Women’s Reservation Bill and ensured its passage but now the Centre is linking the Bill with delimitation, which was unacceptable to the Opposition. Mallikarjun Kharge took to social media ‘X’ and said, “The Congress Party has always been in…
Chennai, April 14 (IANS) BJP leader K. Annamalai on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin over his remarks on the proposed delimitation process, calling his “warning” to the Centre “uncalled for” and alleging that it was aimed at creating “fear” among the public.Annamalai said the Modi government is committed to taking all stakeholders along on the issue and dismissed Stalin’s concerns as an attempt to generate unnecessary apprehension among people in the st…
New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY), the flagship programme of the Modi government, has marked 11 years of operation, aimed at funding the ‘unfunded’ micro enterprises, small businesses and setting the path for their growth.Since its inception on this day in 2015, the programme has been instrumental in powering the business dynamics of small businesses and first-time entrepreneurs, in particular.According to government estimates, around 58 crore loans worth more …
Ranchi, April 7 (IANS) Throwing her weight behind the proposed amendments in women reservation bill, Padma Shri Chutni Mahato on Tuesday said that the extension of the Budget session of Parliament towards its implementation is a commendable step. She credited the Modi government and its firm resolve for turning the long-held dream of implementing women’s reservation in the legislature into a reality.“Congress governments repeatedly failed to undertake any concrete work towards this in the past…
New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has raised serious concerns over the inclusion of Dalit, Adivasi, and Other Backward Class (OBC) entrepreneurs in India’s public works and infrastructure contracts.Posting on Facebook, he asked, “Last year, out of Rs 16,500 crore worth of public works contracts, how many contracts were awarded to Dalit, Adivasi, and backward class businesses? Their response was deeply worrying—the government does not maintain any data on this.”The is…
New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan has directed officials of his Ministry to review the damage caused to farmers’ crops by unseasonal rains and hailstorms across several states, according to an official statement issued on Sunday.The minister has instructed officials to contact authorities in the concerned states and gather information on the extent of damage caused to crops by heavy rain and hailstorms.Chouhan has as…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma broke ranks with the party leadership on Thursday to endorse the Modi government’s foreign policy and strategic manoeuvring in the wake of a full-blown war in West Asia involving Israel, the United States, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Anand Sharma, who served as External Affairs Minister in the UPA government, took to X to explain in detail the challenging situation in West Asia, shed light on the enormity of the energy cris…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, on Tuesday, asked whether the people of Balurghat in West Bengal’s South Dinajpur district had actually received the benefits of any Central government schemes despite the presence of a ‘double-engine government’ in the region. Citing specific statistics, Abhishek Banerjee issued a direct challenge, explicitly naming both Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Balurghat Lok Sabha MP as well as Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar …