Nivedita Dash

Cabinet expansion comes at a time when the BJP has expressed confidence about winning all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the key northern state in the 2024 general elections.

In the heart-wrenching letter addressed to his father, the boy expressed deep anguish and apologised for allegedly not being able to do anything for him, though his father had done a lot for him. A case was registered. The probe is on.

A few Congress Ministers and MLAs, especially those from the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community, have also expressed their apprehensions regarding the caste census report.

Himachal Pradesh crisis: Following the disqualification of the rebel legislators, the effective strength of the House has reduced from 68 to 62 while the number of Congress MLAs has shrunk from 40 to 34. The BJP has 25 MLAs in the House.

The Speaker of the assembly, Kuldeep Singh Pathania, has disqualified six Congress MLAs for defying party whip in the Rajya Sabha elections. All the six rebel Congress MLAs will now cease to be members of the assembly.

Yash Mittal, son of a businessman and student at a Noida-based university, was missing from his hostel since Monday. Shubham Chaudhary, the fourth accused is still at large.

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's political crisis: The turbulence in the hilly state was triggered by cross-voting by six Congress MLAs in the Rajya Sabha election for the lone seat from Himachal Pradesh.

An official release from the DMK said the seat-sharing talks were finalised on Thursday.

The turbulence in Himachal was triggered by Tuesday’s cross-voting by six Congress MLAs in the Rajya Sabha election for the lone seat from Himachal Pradesh.

Besides the BJP and the Congress, BSP, AAP, NPP and CPI-M have declared their income.

In the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Assembly, the Congress has 40 MLAs while the BJP has 25 legislators.

CBI registered a case under Prevention of Corruption Act against the then District Magistrate (an IAS officer), Hamirpur (Uttar Pradesh); the then Geologist/Mining Officer; then Mining Clerk, Hamirpur; Eight others including Lease Holders, private persons and other unknown public servants & unknown

Jamali, a two-time MLA (2012, 2017) from Mubarakpur seat of Azamgarh, is considered to have a good following in the district.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge appointed senior leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and D K Shivakumar to engage with the six MLAs, who are learnt to be "disappointed" with the working style of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and are seeking his replacement.

Rewati Raman Singh played a major role in establishment of the Samajwadi Party with SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Beni Prasad Verma and Azam Khan.

Aam Aadmi Party held a PAC meeting on Tuesday and decided on the names of election candidates. In the press conference held after the meeting, the party has announced the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.

Women are an important part of space missions like Chandrayaan and Ganganyaan and these are not possible without them, PM said.