The contractual staff employees associated with the different municipalities in West Bengal whose appointments were made without the prior concurrence of the state government will not be entitled to retirement benefits, Calcutta High Court ordered on Monday.
Ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections, three-time West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegation on the addition of names of bogus voters to the state electoral roll may have been refuted by the Election Commission of India, but the controversy is unlikely to end just yet.
The recently concluded Maha Kumbh has not only reinforced Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s political dominance in the state but has also positioned him as a key contender in any post-Narendra Modi succession debate.
The incumbent environment minister needs to develop a concrete action plan to achieve this.
Former Delhi Environment minister Gopal Rai, claiming that the previous AAP government, under Arvind Kejriwal’s leadership, ensured clean air for Delhi to 209 days in the last year from 109 in 2016, said on Sunday that the BJP should take it forward.
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Friday criticized former Chief Minister Atishi, stating that instead of questioning the BJP, she should prepare to answer for her government’s actions based on findings in the CAG reports.
The BJP Rajasthan state unit president Madan Rathore is all set for being declared elected unopposed on Saturday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday hit out against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Industrialist Gautam Adani on the second day of his Rae Bareli visit.
Amid the ongoing controversy over the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding of $21 million for increasing ‘voter turnout’ in India, Congress said on Friday that the “funds narrative” was perpetrated by the BJP-led government to divert attention from its own sins of using foreign funds to destabilise the previous Congress governments.
In the first Cabinet meeting, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta said that her government will implement the Centre's flagship scheme in the national capital.
