Budget 2018-19

Senior CPI(M) leader Ashok Bhattacharya’s statement that former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, who suffered a heart attack, was under pressure to join politics created a storm Bhattacharya’s statement that BCCI president and former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, who suffered a heart attack and is now hospitalised, was under pressure to join politics created a storm on Sunday. Speculations were rife that the former batting great will join the BJP ahead of the state assembly elections due in April-May this year. But Ganguly himself never made his intentions quite clear about taking the political plunge. He underwent angioplasty after a “mild” heart attack on Saturday. He is under treatment in a private hospital in Kolkata. “Some people wanted to use  Saurav Ganguly  politically. That probably exerted pressure on him. He is not a political element. He should be known as Sourav the sporting icon,” Bhattacharya, the BCCI presidents longtime family friend, said. ...

  Groups of protesters gathered in Brazil’s two biggest cities to demonstrate against any mandate for the taking of a Covid-19 vaccine, supporting a rejection campaign encouraged by President Bolsonaro Small groups of protesters gathered in Brazil’s two biggest cities on Sunday to demonstrate against any mandate for the taking of a coronavirus vaccine, supporting a rejection campaign encouraged by President Jair Bolsonaro. People assembled in downtown Sao Paulo calling for the removal of Sao Paulo state Governor Joao Doria, who has said state residents will be required to take a vaccine, likely the one being developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac and the local Butantan Institute. “Doria will fall!” the protestors chanted. “Out with Doria!” The CoronaVac, as it is being called, has been a prime target for skepticism from  Jair Bolsonaro  and others, with the president saying Brazilians will not be guinea pigs to the Chinese. The issue has become a talking p...

After the Northeast Assembly election results 2018, BJP is set to form its maiden government in Tripura, and will be part of coalitions forming state governments in Nagaland and Meghalaya National Peoples Party (NPP) President Conrad Sangma is set to be administered the oath of office and secrecy as the new chief minister of Meghalaya, at a ceremony at 10.30 am on Tuesday. Meanwhile, even as the NPP and alliance partner Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were preparing for the swearing-in cerremony, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the BJP, saying the latter had "usurped power in Meghalaya through a proxy". Following favourable Northeast Assembly election results 2018, while the BJP is set to form its maiden government in Tripura, it will also be part of the coalitions forming governments in Nagaland and Meghalaya. The BJP, for its part, has accused the Congress of practising "politics of fear, confusion, and concoction". Top BJP le...

The TRS chief said he would talk with all like-minded parties and leaders for creating an agenda for the country's growth Within days of proposing a "non-Congress, non-BJP front, Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has received support from several political parties including the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress. Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Hyderabad lawmaker Asaduddin Owaisi were the other leaders who have extended their support to the TRS chief. The chief minister, on Saturday, had expressed his wish to join national politics to effect a "qualitative change", while accusing successive governments ruled by the Congress and the BJP at the Centre of having "miserably failed" to ensure development. "Since morning, I have been receiving many calls from various places in India. Today afternoon, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee called me and said that I have ...

Trump backs National Rifle Association as 'great American patriots' amid Florida school massacre The head of the National Rifle Association lashed out at gun control advocates on Thursday, saying Democratic elites are politicizing the latest mass school shooting in the United States to try to erode constitutionally guaranteed gun rights. NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre echoed President Donald Trump’s call to arm teachers to prevent school shootings, and weighed in on a long-running political and cultural divide over access to weapons that has been inflamed by last week’s massacre at a Florida high school that killed 17 students and staff. “The elites don’t care not one whit about America’s school system and school children,” LaPierre told a friendly audience of conservatives outside Washington. “Their goal is to eliminate the Second Amendment and our firearms freedoms so they can eradicate all individual freedoms.” The US Constitution’s Second Amendm...