Over the years, the UAE has become one of India’s most prominent partners in the Gulf region. The Prime Minister’s visit to the UAE on February 13, 2024, is significant as he is set to inaugurate a temple constructed by Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha in Abu Dhabi. According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the President of the UAE for granting the land to construct the BAPS temple in Abu Dhabi. He also remarked that UAE president Mohammed Bin Zayed, popularly known as MBZ, said, as his brother, that it’s like coming to his…
Author: Aaditya Joshi
After almost 15 days of high-voltage political drama in Bihar on February 12, Monday, it reached its climax with the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government securing the trust vote with 129 votes (78 BJP + 44 JDU + 4 HAM + 3 RJD) in favor, whereas 0 votes were polled against the trust vote because all 112 MLAs of Mahagathbandhan (RJD, INC, CPI (ML), CPI (M), and CPI) walked out of the house. The Bihar legislative assembly consists of 243 members, and 122 seats are required to prove the majority. At present, RJD is the largest party with 78 MLAs, followed…
Former Prime Ministers PV Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh along with MS Swaminathan, will be awarded with the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. The decision was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday. There are five recipients of Bharat Ratna this year (which is the highest so far), namely PV Narasimha Rao (father of Indian economic reforms), Chaudhari Charan Singh (champion of Indian peasants), Karpoori Thakur (a Mandal icon), MS Swaminathan (father of the Green Revolution), and Lal Krishna Advani (architect of the BJP and icon of Kamandal politics). What is Bharat Ratna? It is the highest…
Maharashtra is one state where the political scenario has changed drastically since the last general elections of 2019. In the last Lok Sabha election, the BJP and the Shiv Sena (under Uddhav Thackrey) Alliance won 41 out of 48 seats against Sharad Pawar’s NCP and the Congress Alliance, which won only five seats. After the Lok Sabha election results and landmark victory of the BJP and NDA in Maharashtra and the entire country, many political pundits predicted a comfortable victory of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the upcoming assembly elections. and similarly happened in the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections, which…
On Wednesday, 7th February the Legislative Assembly of Uttarakhand passed the Uniform Civil Code Bill, 2024 which was tabled a day before in the house. With the passing of the Bill Uttarakhand became the first Indian state to implement a Uniform Civil Code, which means there will be common law for marriage, divorce, and Inheritance of property for all citizens of the state. The bill will now become an act with the assent of the Governor of Uttarakhand. The draft of the Uniform Civil Code bill was prepared by the Uttarakhand government under the chairmanship of retired judge of Supreme…
Introduction In his address to Lok Sabha, PM strongly claimed that with more than 370 seats BJP will return to power for a third consecutive term in Lok Sabha and NDA will cross the mark of 400. During his speech in Lok Sabha on Monday arguably his last speech of the 17th Lok Sabha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a striking attack on the Congress party and the Gandhi family. He slammed the Congress party for its cancel culture and made it solely responsible for the failure of opposition unity. Such a strong statement by the Prime Minister in Lok…
The second high-level official core group meeting on Indian and Maldivian relations took place on the 3rd of February in the Indian capital city of New Delhi, in which it was decided that India would withdraw its military personnel from the Maldives by May 2024. The Maldives Foreign Ministry has made an official statement about the meeting saying both governments decided to agree upon the withdrawal of Indian military personnel from the Maldives. The controversy between both Nations was ignited after the negative comments against India and PM Modi were made by the three deputy ministers of youth affairs from the Maldives…
Introduction Tamil Nadu was the state where the first regional party government was formed by DMK in 1967 under the leadership of C.N. Annadurai. Tamil Nadu politics is dominated by Dravida ideology, which aims to achieve social equality. Here Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) are the two major dominant regional parties, and since 1967 the government at the state level has been formed by these two regional parties alternatively. At present DMK led by MK Stalin along with Congress, CPI (M) and others as Alliance partners has been ruling the state since 2021.…
Indian National Congress Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi entered Jharkhand on the afternoon of 02 February, yatra entered through the Pakur district in the state from west Bengal. After heavy political drama in the state’s capital Ranchi, Champai Soren finally was sworn in as the chief minister of Jharkhand yesterday, the same day the yatra also reached into the state, joined by him in Pakur. ‘The yatra is aimed to ensure justice to people of the state’ told by Jharkhand congress president Rajesh Thakur to PTI. In two phases, Yatra will cover an 804 km distance in…
On, February 01st, 2024, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her sixth and first interim union budget for 2024-25 in the new parliament building. The government has set the “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas and Sabka Vishwas with Sabka Prayas” as a mantra for Modi 3.0, 2024 is the election year and the budget is also prepared accordingly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speech’s talks about four caste i.e., “Garib (Poor), Mahilayen (Women), Yuva (Youth) and Annadata (Farmer)” and budget 2024 also majorly focused on the upliftment and welfare of these sections of society. The finance minister…
