Politics

After a string of defections from the NCP and Congress to the ruling BJP and the Shiv Sena, Fadnavis said Opposition leadership has failed to instill confidence among their leaders.

The Congress leader's attack comes after the government announced slashing of corporate tax rates for companies by almost 10 per cent to 25.17 per cent to bring them at par with Asian rivals such as China and South Korea.

The former MP, who in the past moved to the BJP before returning to his parent party, said banks continue to charge 18% interest on waived-off loan amounts of farmers.

The NCP and some other opposition parties in the past raised questions over the veracity of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs).

Jitendra Singh replied that when J&K leaders would be released from detention in 'less than 18 months', a jibe at the Congress and other opposition parties on the duration of the 1975 Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.

The BSP chief said instead of fighting with its arch rivals, the Congress always damages the parties that have helped and supported it.

Rahul Gandhi said that India's many languages are not her weakness. His tweet came hours after senior BJP leader and Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa also came out to oppose Amit Shah's Hindi appeal.

Devendra Fadnavis said so far, his yatra has covered over 3,000 km and reached out to over 100 constituencies (out of the total 288) in the state.

The Congress' attack came after Sitharaman announced an over Rs 70,000-crore package for exports and real estate sectors, including setting up of a stressed asset fund.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Shashi Tharoor had said in the entire history of Parliamentary Standing Committees, the Committee on External Affairs has always been headed by an Opposition Lok Sabha MP.

Piyush Goyal was trolled over the gaffe in explaining that achieving the target of nearly doubling the size of the economy to USD 5 trillion should not be looked through the prism of maths.

Gandhi's attack on the government comes two days after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Chennai on Tuesday said that the slowdown in the automobile sector was due to many factors like the change in mindset of millennials.

Observers say while the BJP’s proliferation in the state since 2014 was a catalyst, chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC may have a greater role to play in the introduction of new festivals and deities into Bengal’s cultural sphere

The Congress, in a tweet, also attacked the government over a media report claiming that crores of stocks in investor wealth has been wiped off in the first 100 days of the Modi government's second term.

The state has already approved a resolution for a National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the state, N Biren Singh told reporters here on the sidelines of the NEDA conclave here.

While talking to reporters in Bhopal, senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijaya Singh said all functionaries were responsible to maintain discipline in the party and those breaching it should be punished.