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Rahul Gandhi writes to Congress functionaries NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday wrote to party functionaries, urging them to turn the student campaign launched by the party’s youth and student wings – Indian Youth Congress and NSUI – into a “countrywide movement.”The letter was addressed to Congress general secretaries, state in-charges, and heads…

Digvijaya Singh cautioned that Mohan Yadav could ultimately be held accountable even if wrongdoing was committed by officials. NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh on Saturday warned incumbent chief minister Mohan Yadav that retaining 12 ministerial portfolios was a “big mistake”, saying the concentration of responsibilities could leave…

Opposition tears into BJP over Maharashtra TET ‘paper leak’ NEW DELHI: Opposition parties, including the Congress and NCP (SP), on Saturday criticised the BJP-led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra over the alleged Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) question paper leak and the cancellation of the examination a day before it was scheduled.They accused the government of failing…

Uddhav Thackeray; Arvind Kejriwal Shiv Sena minister Gulabrao Patil said Operation Tiger 3.0 had begun and that 14 Shiv Sena (UBT) MLAs would soon join deputy chief minister the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena. AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal accused BJP of “sparing neither the exams nor the temples” after a teachers entrance exam in BJP-led…

NEW DELHI: Union minister of state for agriculture Bhagirath Choudhary on Saturday refuted charges of taking a subsidy of nearly Rs 1 crore from his own ministry and said that he had “hidden nothing” and had applied for the subsidy years before becoming a minister.Speaking to news agency ANI, Choudhary claimed that he has been…

Shashi Tharoor (File photo) NEW DELHI: After Congress MP Rahul Gandhi completed two years as leader of the opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, senior party MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday wished him “strength and courage” in his “fight for the future of India.”“All the best to Shri @RahulGandhi ji as he completes two years…

UNC urged the Centre to uphold the 2015 Framework Agreement on the Indo-Naga peace process (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body representing 21 Naga tribes in Manipur, on Saturday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in what it described as a worsening security situation in Naga-inhabited areas…

Maharashtra deputy CM Eknath Shinde (File photo) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday assured strict action against those responsible after the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) was postponed 24 hours before the examination following a suspected paper leak.He said the state government was considering invoking the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime…

Kishan Reddy also accused Congress, AIMIM of linking revision to religion NEW DELHI: Union coal minister G Kishan Reddy on Saturday accused Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy of attempting to provoke Muslims, disturb law and order and derail the Election Commission‘s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state.Addressing reporters in…