A few weeks after the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won an unprecedented third term in office, Taiwan's legislature elected Han Kuo-yu, a politician from the China-friendly opposition Kuomintang (KMT) as its new speaker on Thursday, Voice of America reported.
With the Opposition alliance threatening to fall apart amid rising differences over seat-sharing, West Bengal Chief Minister and ruling TMC supremo, Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday asserted that her party would form the government at the Centre along with like-minded regional partners after
Amid the controversy over Gyanvapi mosque verdict, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya remarked that if the Samajwadi Party continues with politics of appeasement like this, it will soon turn into the 'Samaptwadi Party.'
Even as Union Ministers hailed the Union Budget tabled by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday as an 'inclusive budget', it drew sharp criticism from Opposition leaders who dubbed it as an 'election budget'.
Floor leaders of the Opposition bloc -- Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) -- will hold a meeting on Friday at the office of the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, to draw up a floor strategy for the ongoing Budget session.
Nitish Kumar, the Chief of the Janata Dal (United) that broke its ties with the Opposition bloc INDIA recently also lauded the Centre for increasing the amount of loans for higher education.
The government presented the interim budget for 2024-2025 in Parliament on Thursday with focus on economic policies that foster growth, facilitate inclusive development, improve productivity, create opportunities for various sections while noting that it will pay utmost attention to easte
Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri hit back at the opposition's criticism of the Interim Budget, stating that 250 million people have been lifted out of multi-dimensional poverty in the last 10 years.
The Leader of Opposition in the Himachal Pradesh assembly, Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday said that BJP national president JP Nadda will embark on a two-day visit to the state ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
After Hemant Soren was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday night in a money laundering case, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah believe in exercising politics of vendetta adding tha
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Jayant Sinha on Thursday said that he does not agree with the allegations that "opposition leaders are being targeted by the central agencies" adding that if a thorough probe is conducted in the alleged corruption cases linked to Hemant Soren in Jharkhand,