New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday praised Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in the Lok Sabha, delivered a day earlier, saying it highlighted the importance of parliamentary traditions and the need for collective work for the country’s progress.HM Shah had strongly defended Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday and criticised the opposition for bringing a notice seeking his removal from the Chair. Responding to the debate on the no-confidence motion ag…
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New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday slammed the Opposition for bringing a notice seeking the removal of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and also took a swipe at the Congress and the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) for allegedly stoking pandemonium in the House with false claims.HM Shah rejected the specific claim that the LoP was not allowed to speak in the House, saying that the Lok Sabha functions according to established rules and every member is expected to abide …
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Opposition MPs, led by Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest in the Parliament complex on Monday, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of maintaining “complete silence” on the ongoing Gulf conflict and its potential impact on India’s economy and citizens abroad.Sharing details of the protest on X, Congress MP and General Secretary K. C. Venugopal said that MPs from the INDIA bloc demonstrated against what they described as the Prime Mi…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Congress leader Udit Raj on Tuesday questioned the selective approach towards historical recognition, following party MP Shashi Tharoor’s welcome of the installation of C. Rajagopalachari’s statue at Rashtrapati Bhavan.Speaking to IANS, Udit Raj said, “I say that Edwin Lutyens designed Connaught Place, Rashtrapati Bhavan, North Block, South Block. If his statue is removed, then Rajagopalachari’s statue could also be removed. The parliamentary system, the state go…
Kochi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Kerala High Court will view the film ‘The Kerala Story 2’ on Wednesday as part of proceedings in a petition raising concerns over its portrayal of events that are claimed to be based on a “true story”.Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas, who is hearing the matter, decided to personally view the film before considering further orders.The petitioners have argued that their concerns cannot be brushed aside, particularly because the film is promoted as being inspired by real inc…
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Reacting to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s criticism of the film ‘The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond’, Jammu & Kashmir Leader of Opposition Sunil Kumar Sharma said that if facts are being shown, “nobody should have a problem with that”, intensifying the political debate surrounding the film.“He (Tharoor) said a lot of hatred has been observed in the Kerala Story 1 film, with many cases of conversion reported, though later some turned out to be false. I haven’t p…
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 20 (IANS) CWC member Shashi Tharoor has broken ranks with his party to defend the ongoing Bharat AI Impact Summit, calling minor lapses “small errors” and praising the event as a global success.Speaking ahead of his address at the venue on Friday, senior Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, “Such incidents can occur at large programmes. There is no need to magnify them. The summit is noteworthy because of the scale of public participation.”The summit, underw…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The Janata Dal (United) on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Congress following controversial remarks by its senior leader Mani Shankar Aiyar, claiming that the party was facing internal turmoil.Reacting to Aiyar’s recent statements, JD(U) National Spokesperson Rajeev Ranjan Prasad said, “What Mani Shankar Aiyar will do is his individual choice. However, everything is not running smoothly within the Congress, which has become clear after Mani Shankar Aiyar’s r…
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 16 (IANS) “What do you think of a party that chooses KC Venugopal as the Sardar Patel to Rahul Gandhi? And what do you think of a party that cannot find anyone but Pawan Khera to be their spokesman?…” senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar wrote on social media from Thiruvananthapuram, setting off fresh ripples within the grand old party.The pointed remarks, widely interpreted as targeting senior leaders K.C. Venugopal and Pawan Khera, have added to internal unease i…
Mumbai, Feb 16 (IANS) Global sensation Priyanka Chopra and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor bumped into each other at the annual Harvard India conference.Both graced the event as the headline speakers. The conference, which brings together prominent speakers from various industries, also saw Badminton Champion P V Sindhu in attendance.Tharoor took to his official Instagram handle and shared his delight at meeting PeeCee, who is constantly making her country proud.The politician pointed out that Priyan…