The Bharatiya Janata Party has pulled out of the ruling coaltion with People’s Democratic Party or PDP, days after prominent journalist Shujaat Bhukhari was gunned down by suspected terrorists. BJP spokesperson Ram Madhav pointed to three factors that prompted the party to pull out — rising terrorist incidents, poor law and order and an imbalance […]
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, the party floated by politician Raj Thackeray, has started selling petrol at select pumps in Mumbai at a discount of Rs 9.30 per liter as part of a protest against the high price of fuel. The actual price of petrol in Mumbai is Rs 84.26, while the MNS is selling petrol at […]
India is likely to have met its target of adding 10,000 watt of solar power generation capacity in the year ended March 2018, thanks to a sudden spurt of installations during the final months of the year (Jan-Mar), going by numbers released by an independent group. According to Mercom India, a consultancy that tracks the […]
The Union Government of India has, for the first time, invited people who are not part of the Indian Administrative Service or IAS to join as top bureaucrats in the central government. The Department of Personnel and Training has invited anyone with 15 years of expertise in areas such as finance, energy and commerce to […]
ALTBalaji, the biggest Indian provider of original online content, is signing up paid users at the rate of 25,000-30,000 per day, said Nachiket Pantvaidya, the CEO of Balaji Telefilms, the company behind the app. “We expect to have paid users of 10 mln by the end of the year,” Pantvaidya said in an interview with BTVI. […]
People carrying pornographic or other indecent material on their phones can end up getting prison terms of up to three years under a new law proposed by the ministry of women and child development headed by Maneka Gandhi. Under the ‘Indecent Representation of Women Act’, anyone possessing printed content, drawings and films “which contains indecent […]
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the ‘viability rating’ of scam-hit Punjab National Bank by two notches to ‘b’ from ‘bb-‘, citing a sharp rise in loan defaults. However, the bank’s ‘default rating’ has been kept at BBB-, given the high probability that the government of India will lend support in case of such an eventuality. “The […]
The coveted finance portfolio of the newly formed Congress-JDS alliance is likely to be retained by chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, while Home is likely to go to the Congress, according to sources. The two alliance partners have been in talks for several days on dividing the various portfolios between themselves. It has already been […]
Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress Party in Kerala have reason to worry from the results of Chengannur bye-election conducted on Sunday. With nearly all votes in — including those from areas considered strongholds of Congress and BJP — the Left Front candidate Saji Cherian was comfortably in the lead. The vote share […]
Manpasand Beverages denied charges that it had denied data to its auditor Deloitte Haskins & Sells, but disclosed the resignation letter of the auditor that contained charges to the effect. The beverage maker is under a cloud after news of the resignation broke, and its stock has fallen from around Rs 430 on Friday to […]
Pharma major Strides Shasun denied rumors that its auditors had resigned. The rumors, coming close on the heels of a similar development at Manpasand Beverages, had impacted the company’s share price today morning. Shares of Strides Shasun fell to a low of Rs 397 compared to the close of Rs 423 yesterday, before making up […]
A Dalit Christian boy has been killed in Kerala three days after he married a girl belonging to an upper caste Christian family, allegedly by the girl’s relatives. The body of Kevin was found in a stream today morning, 24 hours after the boy was abducted from his relatives’ house by a group of around […]
In the first such case in Delhi, tax authorities arrested a city-based father and son duo for issuing input tax credit invoices without supplying anything to their ‘clients’. Under the GST regime, any company can get a reduction in the tax they have to pay if they produce receipts of raw material purchase, to the […]
Boosted by the first big victory since in several years, Congress Party president Rahul Gandhi said his party will join hands with the opposition to “protect Indian institutions” from the attacks of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtreeya Swayamsevak Sangh. Speaking in the aftermath of the BJP failing to win majority in Karnataka Assembly, Gandhi […]
Arnab Goswami, head of Republic Channel, has urged the Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa to resign instead of facing the trust vote. “We at Republic feel that the game is slipping away from the BJP,” he said. “The fact is that the BJP cannot go on this route that we are the largest party and […]
BJP sources are reported to have started indicating to media that the party is not interested in winning ‘by hook or crook’ and may not go through with the trust vote if it is not able to garner the requisite numbers. The move indicates that the ruling front may have failed to achieve its target […]
Two MLAs of the Congress Party in Karnataka, Pratap Gowda Patil and Anand Singh have missed the roll-call for taking oath have been tracked to Goldfinch hotel in Bangalore. A team of police has been dispatched to the hotel to ‘rescue’ the MLAs who are reportedly ‘being held captive’. UPDATE: ALSO SEE https://ultra.news/t-t/39991/karnataka-trust-vote-bjp-may-give-up-without-a-fight Both have […]
The Supreme Court has refused to remove BJP leader KG Bopaiah as the temporary speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, but restrictions on the live broadcast of the trust vote on TV channels have also been removed. The same bench that had earlier directed the trust vote to be conducted today also said that the […]
BSP Supremo Mayawati today ‘advised’ the Congress party to learn its lessons from the situation in Karnataka and not try to use any and every trick in the book to deride its opponents, especially if they are in the ‘secular’ camp. Mayawati was referring to the fact that the BJP won many seats in Muslim […]
The Supreme Court has intervened in the decision by the Karnataka governor to invite the Bharatiya Janata Party to form the next government and asked the BJP to produce the letters it wrote to the governor. A bench of Justices AK Sikri, SA Bobde and Ashok Bhushan refused to pass any order staying or stopping […]
