Rahul Gandhi will be on a day’s visit to Amethi on July 10. His sister and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi was likely to accompany him. New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi for the first time since his Lok Sabha defeat at the hands of BJP’s Smriti Irani. This will also be Rahul Gandhi’s first visit to Amethi, which before the Lok Sabha elections had been the Gandhi’s family traditional seat, in fifteen years despite having been an elected representative from the Uttar PradeshRead More

A group of resigned MLAs flown from HAL airport in Bangaluru to Mumbai and provided accommodation at a five-star hotel. A day after 12 MLAs of the ruling JD(S)-Congress alliance submitted their resignation letters, former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge sees the role of BJP Central leaders in the development and efforts to topple the Karnataka government. The BJP had been making all-out efforts to engineer factions to bring down the JD(S)-Congress government in Karnataka by shifting MLAs to Mumbai, Mr. Kharge told presspersons in Bengaluru on July 7. “HowRead More

“We know how to save our government. If our MLA s are poached, we will poach theirs,” Karnataka Forest Minister Satish Jarkiholi said in Belagavi on July 6. He was replying to a question by journalists as to whether the Congress would conduct an operation to counter the BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’. “Not just us, even the JD(S) will do it. Congress has already prepared a team for it already,” Mr. Jarkiholi said. Meanwhile, BJP leaders from Belagavi and nearby areas left for Bengaluru from the Sambra airport in Belagavi. TheyRead More

The proposal would cover 99.3 per cent of the companies operating in the country. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday proposed to raise the yearly turnover limit from Rs 250 crore to Rs 400 crore for profiting a lower corporate tax rate of 25 percent. The proposition would cover 99.3 percent of the organizations working in the nation, she said while displaying Union Budget 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha. She further said just 0.7 percent of the organizations will presently stay outside the 25 percent corporate duty section, she said.Read More

Although Nirmala Sitharaman made provisions for a new education policy, a research fund and skill development, there’s not much for the education sector in the Union Budget. In her Budget speech, instead of announcing provisions for the education sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked about implementing a new education policy, a research fund, skill development and a new and reformed higher education regulatory under the category of “youth”. The focus on the demographic dividend of youth is much needed, but Sitharaman’s Budget speech was strangely silent on school education. SheRead More