YOU READ IT HERE FIRST:
@NewIndianXpress
was the first to inform you that Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba may not get an extension & Finance Secretary TV Somanathan IAS TN87 may replace him as next Cabinet Secretary. Govt today appointed Somanathan as Cabinet Secy for 2 yrs
45+ वालो की पंगत जीम ही रही थी कि 18+ वालो को भी बिठा दिया।
जबकि पूड़ी निकल नही रही है।
60+ वाले फूफा अलग नाराज हैं। उनका भोजन भी अभी बाकी है
🤣🤪🤪 😅
हलवाई देश छोड़ लंदन चला गया है।
Income Tax dept confirms
@NewIndianXpress
exposé on
@ArvindKejriwal
's
@AamAadmiParty
using aangadias to transfer black money for election campaign in Gujarat. IT dept says Rs 20 crore has so far been transferred. The story has been splashed across all Gujarati dailies today.
Global defence biggies signed offset contracts worth $13bn over last 15 yrs. But implemented only worth $2.4 bn. MoD's show-cause notices and penalties have failed to move them. The govt has now decided to crack the whip to make them honour the contracts.
Chhattisgarh CM
@bhupeshbaghel
says the
@BJP4India
's attempt to give an anti-OBC twist to
@RahulGandhi
's controversial 2019 speech would not succeed as neither of the two fugitive businessmen referred to in the speech belong to the Other Backward Classes.
Beard trimmed as
@RahulGandhi
lands in
#UK
for a week-long tour during which he'll deliver a lecture at
@Cambridge_Uni
on 'learning to listen in 21st century.'
INTERVIEW: C'garh CM
@bhupeshbaghel
accuses
@BJP4India
of stalling reservation for weaker sections by using Raj Bhavan to withhold assent to 2 bills. Baghel piloted the bills in a Spl session fixing 32% quota for STs, 27% for OBCs,13% for SCs & 4% for EWS.
Former
@INCIndia
chief
@RahulGandhi
's recent comments on
@varungandhi80
surprised many because Varun had been increasingly distancing himself from
@RSSorg
&
@BJP4India
and his politics is located closer to centre-left than to the Sangh ideology. My piece:
Prince of Kolkata
@SGanguly99
dropped as
@BCCI
chief for reasons that have nothing to do with cricket. It's his refusal to play
@BJP4India
's political ball that got him the axe. Dada got BCCI job before Bengal polls, Binny gets it before Karnataka's.
Ten tribal MLAs from
#Manipur
met home minister
@AmitShah
& demanded separate administration for tribal areas. They said Kuki-Chin-Mizo-Zomi-Hmar tribals have all been driven out of Imphal valley and there are no Meiteis left in the hills. The two communities can't live together.
EXCLUSIVE & BREAKING:
@INCIndia
plenary session to ratify
@kharge
's election as party President will be held in
#Chhattisgarh
capital
#Raipur
. State chief minister
@bhupeshbaghel
had proposed the venue and offered to host the event. The party leadership has accepted his offer.
EXCLUSIVE:
@RahulGandhi
to start
#BharatJodoYatra
-2 on October 2 from Mahatma
#Gandhi
's birthplace, Porbandar in Gujarat, to the holy Parshuram Kund in Arunachal. UdaipurQuagmire:
@INCIndia
struggles to find 50% candidates under 50 yrs of age for the CWC.
NEWSMAKER: Read
#SCBA
president
@KapilSibal
’s profile for rare nuggets from his life: He’d passed IAS exam; he taught in Delhi Univ where
@HardeepSPuri
was his student; Bhajan Lal got him into
@INCIndia
& Devendra Dwivedi got him to fight his 1st LS election.
BREAKING: An MLA from North Tripura district has been caught watching porn on his mobile in Assembly while proceeding was on. In 2012, 3 BJP ministers had to resign in Karnataka for this reason. MLA's clip is widely circulated in Tripura. Will House panel enquire and take action?
ECI ordered counting of votes post midnight. 30 ballots were found to have been marked in favour of Maken. 29 for Kartikeya. Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who has been angry with party leadership, voted for Kartikeya Sharma.
Two separate piles of ballots were made. 1/4
BREAKING: Media baron Kartikeya Sharma loses
#RajyaSabhaElections2022
in Haryana. Sources said he has polled 28 votes against Congress candidate Ajay Maken's 30. Independent MLA Balraj Kundu did not vote and one Congress MLA either did not vote or his vote was rejected.
EXCLUSIVE: Indo-French JV between Dassault Aviation & Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Aerostructure Ltd may be dissolved as the French company has decided to pull out of JV. Dassault is looking for new partner as India prepares to buy 26 more Rafale-M fighters.
Another son-rise in Bihar:
@NitishKumar
to launch his son Nishant in politics. As his health deteriorates, Nitish devises 2-pronged strategy to keep
@Jduonline
intact: Appoint
@Shrawon_Nalanda
as party chief & bring his son to the fore.
7 non-Congress opposition CMs & a Dy CM have formed a group, called G-8. They've had 3 video conferences to discuss united fight against BJP in 2024 and offered seat-sharing with Cong on condition that oppn leadership is left open until after 2024 polls.
CM
@Naveen_Odisha
may dissolve state assembly & go in for elections along with five other states in December this year. He wants to decouple assembly & LS polls as he feels simultaneous polls prove disadvantageous for his party. PM
@narendramodi
to begin interactions with journos
BREAKING:
@INCIndia
decides not to hold CWC elections. Party president
@kharge
authorised to appoint members. At steering committee meeting at Raipur today,
@ajaymaken
demanded elections. He was supported by
@digvijaya_28
&
@DrAMSinghvi
. But the demand was opposed by the rest.
The most popular joke in Haryana in this election season goes as follows: Vote for lotus to send your tried & tested
@INCIndia
leader to Parliament. The joke’s gone viral as 6 out of 10 Lok Sabha candidates of
@BJP4India
are ex-Congressmen.
Opposition parties demand Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into allegations of stock manipulation by
@gautam_adani
-led group to see how the regulatory system failed to detect an alleged scam of this gigantic proportion which caused a loss of billions to public institutions.
BJP is desperately looking for candidates in Haryana. Its best efforts to persuade filmstar
@RandeepHooda
to contest from Rohtak’ve failed.
@mlkhattar
@BjpBiplab
,
@drsudhayadavBJP
spoke to Randeep & his parents multiple times but he’s said no to politics
BREAKING:
@rammadhav_
, member of
@RSSorg
executive committee & member of governing council of
@indfoundation
has served defamation notice to former governor of
#J
&K
#Satpalmalik
for his remarks that Madhav tried to influence him about a deal involving a kickback of Rs 300 crore.
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST:
@NewIndianXpress
broke the story yesterday that four-time
@INCIndia
MLA
@officekiran
will leave the party & join
@BJP4India
. Kiran resigned from Congress today after serving the party for 4 decades. She may join BJP tomorrow
BREAKING: Ten
#Tribal
MLAs from
#Manipur
sign statement demanding that a separate tribal state be carved out of Manipur as the diferrences between tribals and the dominant Meiteis are irreconcilable. Violent clashes have erupted in the state following Meitei demand for ST status.
The
@INC
leader
@SachinPilot
said at
@NewIndianXpress
’
#DelhiDialogues
that LS elections’ll throw up surprising results. He said he’s travelled across country & sensed a mood for change; said biggest surprise’ll come from Hindi heartland where Cong’ll beat
@BJP4India
.
You read it first in the
@NewIndianXpress
that
@INCIndia
leader
@ghulamnazad
would quit Congress. He has done it today. The New Indian Express had shared his plans with you in an exclusive report in Jan '22. Click the link below to read the Express report.
Since the
@NewIndianXpress
scoop on
@ArvindKejriwal
govt's
#LiquorScam
, this columnist has been inundated with calls and messages asking what could be wrong with a policy that helped bring down booze prices and made tipplers happy. Here's a brief lowdown.
The frank & forthright Union minister,
@nitin_gadkari
, spoke to
@NewIndianXpress
editorial staff at
#DelhiDialogues
and gave rare insights into his social service-based style of politics & threw light on issues relating to environment, employment generation & infrastructure.
BREAKING: Sukhvindar Singh Sukhu
@SukhuSukhvinder
, former state Cabinet minister & campaign committee chief in the
#HimachalElection2022
emerges as first choice for post of CM as majority of
@INCIndia
MLAs back him. He was earlier handpicked by
@RahulGandhi
as PCC president.
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST:
@NewIndianXpress
was first to catch the scent of scam in Delhi Govt’s new liquor policy. We did an exclusive report on June 22, 2022 on impending CBI probe. CM
@ArvindKejriwal
was arrested today in the case. DyCM & RS member are already in jail.
First again.
@capt_amarinder
to join the
@BJP4India
on Monday, Sept 19. The
@NewIndianXpress
was the first to break the story on June 20, 2022 about his decision to join the party. Click the link below to read TNIE Breaking story.
BREAKING: Election Commission
@ECISVEEP
polls in 5 states on following date:
Madhya Pradesh: Nov 17
Rajasthan: Nov 23
Chhattisgarh: Nov 7 & 17
Telangana: Nov 30
Mizoram: Nov 7
Counting in all states will be done on Dec 3.
EXCLUSIVE:
@INCIndia
to field
@_SandeepDikshit
from Chandni Chowk,
@inc_jpagarwal
from North-East Delhi &
@Dr_Uditraj
from North-West. In a twist, AAP which was born fighting against Sheila Dikshit will now support her son
@NewIndianXpress
' exclusive newsbreak on June 22 hit the bull’s eye on Friday with the CBI registering FIR against
#Delhi
DyCM
@msisodia
& raiding his residence. Here are 10 questions we'd asked Sisodia which the
@AamAadmiParty
ecosystem refuses to answer
BULLS EYE:
@NewIndianXpress
was first to inform you that Union government may give Intelligence Bureau director Tapan Deka an extension. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet today approved a 1-year extension of his term. He was due to retire on June 30. Read
#PowerGames
EXCLUSIVE: Centre may create a new post of Chief Investigation Officer of India (CIO) on lines of CDS & NSA. CBI & ED will report to CIO, like three services report to CDS & the two intelligence agencies report to the NSA. Outgoing ED chief Sanjay Mishra could be the first CIO.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Russia shuts down Moscow airspace till May 10. Sources said two more drones have been shot down in the capital city. Search for more enemy drones are continuing. One drone was shot down on too of
#Kremlin
on May 3.
#UkraineRussiaWar
The
@NewIndianXpress
editorial staff had an insightful interaction with Union minister for
#JalShakti
@gssjodhpur
. He spoke on steps being taken to tackle water issues, including inter-state disputes, future of
#IndusWaterTreaty
& China’s activities on Brahmaputra
External Affairs Min is probing allegations of land purchase at inflated prices by its missions abroad. The issue was 1st flagged by
#CAG
& was later confirmed by
#MEA
officials. Ministry report recommending action against errant officials is likely soon.
BREAKING: PM
@narendramodi
retains his key advisors. A K Doval to continue as NSA, P K Mishra as Principal Secretary to PM. Amit Khare & Tarun Kapur will be advisors to PM. Term of Doval & Mishra will be co-terminus with that of PM, while the advisors will have 2-yr term.
Congress surrenders its Rajya Sabha seat to partner
@JmmJharkhand
to avoid Himachal-like desertion of its MLAs. Dissension is simmering in Jharkhand
@INCIndia
.
@NitishKumar
to expand ministry ending month-long standoff with
@BJP
over simultaneous polls.
The editorial staff of
@NewIndianXpress
&
@TheMornStandard
had an enlightening interaction with
@DrJitendraSingh
who spoke at length on wide range of issues including, India's space odyssey, nuclear power, J&K polls, OldVsNew pension scheme, plight of Kashmiri Pandits & the BJP.
The feisty
@MahuaMoitra
of
@AITCofficial
has emerged as one of the most powerful oppn voices in Parliament. She speaks with force&clarity, packing her speeches with irrefutable facts&figures. Her audacious interventions have put her in a class of her own.
Cheers!
@INCIndia
has dropped abstinence from consumption of alcohol as a necessary condition to be party member. INC also made wearing khadi optional. No surprises here as
@RahulGandhi
chose T-shirt made of synthetic fabric over Khadi for
#BharatJodoYatra
Jai Anant Dehadrai, the complainant in
@MahuaMoitra
case, was subjected to intense grilling at the parliamentary ethics committee hearing. Panel members were deeply divided with Oppn MPs accusing chair of defending the accused. Click link below.
EXCLUSIVE: Union govt has decided not to buy 114 Multi-Role Fighter Aircraft off the shelf. It’ll procure the fighters from a company that’s ready to set up unit in India to manufacture the entire aircraft. Govt’ll also insist on transfer of tech. Global tender to be out soon.
At 1955 UNESCO meet in Paris, Nehru offered to host the next session in India. His offer was accepted. But he soon realised there's no good place to put up the large no. of delegates. He then built the hotel & the 9th UNESCO session was held there in 1956
Rejection of Kiran's vote brought the numbers to 29-29. Kartikeya edged past Maken with 2nd preference votes received from BJP. Maken got votes of 29 MLAs who were moved to Raipur resort. Kiran and Kuldeep had stayed back in Delhi. The duo became reason for Maken's defeat. 4/4
As announced first in
@NewIndianXpress
, a Congress Working Committee meeting has been called on August 28 to finalise and announce the schedule for the election of new
@INCIndia
president. Election incharge Madhusudan Mistry will present the new electoral rolls in the meeting.
Congress devises new strategy to save Rajya Sabha LOP post, which it has come close to losing.
#BRICS
summit in October to focus on developing new payment mechanism.
@dpradhanbjp
takes
#Haryana
@BJP4India
leaders to task.
Read
#PowerGames
The
@NewIndianXpress
editorial staff had a free-wheeling discussion with
@ugc_india
chairman
@mamidala90
on macro issues confronting education sector, including how govt plans to provide equal access to quality education to weaker sections with increasing privatisation & autonomy
Congress has only 2 options in HP: Save
@SukhuSukhvinder
as CM or save its govt in state.
@priyankagandhi
’s efforts’ve brought temp relief but dark clouds still hang over govt.
@INCIndia
asks party big guns to fight LS poll.
#PowerGames
BREAKING: Hours after removal of
@KirenRijiju
from law ministry, his MOS
@SPSinghBaghel
has also been removed from law ministry and assigned the post of MoS Health and Family Welfare.
EXCLUSIVE: India and France are likely to sign an agreement to set up two new nuclear power plants in the country. The accord may be signed during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Delhi as the chief guest at the Republic Day parade this year.
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST:
@NewIndianXpress
Was the first to inform you that
@iChiragPaswan
was driving a hard bargain with
@BJP4India
by demanding 5 parliament seats in Bihar. The alliance was finalised y’day & Chirag got 5 seats.
Prime Minister
@narendramodi
is preparing a heady cocktail for
#LokSabhaElection2024
. Along with the winning combination of Hindutva and welfarism, Modi plans to appropriate the reservation plank and deny the opposition one of its biggest election issues.
YOU READ IT IN
@NewIndianXpress
:
@laluprasadrjd
told Bihar don Ashok Mahto that he’ll give LS ticket to his wife if he finds one before nomination day. Mahto raced against time & found one. Anita was yest’day named RJD candidate from Munger
EXCLUSIVE: India & Russia signed deal on April 18 during DyPM Manturov's visit to adopt Russian financial messaging system - SPFS - & allow acceptance of Indian Ru-Pay cards & India’s UPI in Russia, & Russian MIR cards & its Fast Payments System in India.
@NewIndianXpress
broke the story on June 22 that CBI would look into
@ArvindKejriwal
govt's liquor policy. The
#CBI
today registered an FIR against
@msisodia
and 15 others, including some unknown public servants. Raids were also conducted at Sisodia's residence. Here's the FIR.
The
@BJP4India
may fight Rajasthan election without CM face. The party is also not relying solely on
@ChouhanShivraj
in MP. A green stone from the banks of river Tungbhadra has been chosen over Nepali Shaligram for making Lord Ram's idol for Ayodhya temple
How have you fallen from heaven,
O star of the morning,
Sun of the dawn.
@ArvindKejriwal
, who emerged from a campaign against corruption has been arrested on charges of corruption. Click the link below to read his dramatic transformation.
BREAKING: India set to clinch Rupee-Dirham trade deal with UAE. Top Indian banking and finance officials are in Abu Dhabi from Feb 21-23 to hammer out details of the deal which will soon be announced by
@narendramodi
&
@MohamadBinZayed
, President of UAE.
Ghosi shocker:
@BJP4India
candidate in
#UttarPradesh
bypoll becomes a casualty in a fight between two top leaders of the party.
Storm brews over downgrade of CEC & ECs and exclusion of CJI from appointment panel. Read all in the weekly column
#PowerGames
in
@NewIndianXpress
Cong leader
@salman7khurshid
says opposition parties know what’s at stake in next election, that’s why all parties are keen on alliances. Says he’s hopeful of
@Mayawati
joining oppn ranks. Scoffs at
@DrSJaishankar
for blacking out his past achievements in book.
#DelhiDialogues
Home minister
@AmitShah
brokers truce between J&K Chief Secy AK Mehta & DGP Dilbagh Singh. Mehta asked not to meddle in police affairs.
@NitishKumar
had helped
@BJP4India
shed political untouchability in nineties, now he'll try to do that for
@INCIndia
.
Woke up to an early morning call from the hon home minister
@AmitShah
to enquire about my health . He also categorically assured me that by the by the 27th of this month an interlocutor will be announced for our talks regarding the constitutional solution for our indigenous