Category: NATIONAL

BHOPAL: Kamal Nath took oath of office as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister at Bhopal’s Lal Parade ground today. Several senior Congress leaders including party president Rahul Gandhi and hundreds of party workers attended the function. Kamal Nath said that the promise of farm loan waiver made by the Congress will be fulfilled.There will no Deputy Chief Minister post. The nine-time Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara was Thursday night elected as the leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP). Kamal Nath was born in Kanpur to an established business family, and has worked with three…

JAIPUR: Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel will on Monday take oath as the Chief Ministers of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh, respectively. Ashok Gehlot today took oath as the Rajasthan chief minister in the outdoor venue of Jaipur’s Albert Hall.Sachin Pilot was sworn in as his deputy. Governor Kalyan Singh administered the oath to Gehlot and Pilot. Both the leaders took oath in Hindi; Pilot was seen donning a traditional Rajasthani saafa. Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday thanked the people of Rajasthan for believing in the party and vowed…

Bhupesh Baghel is credited with playing a crucial role in a landslide victory of the Congress in Chhattisgarh. Congress won 68 seats in the 90-member Chhattisgarh assembly. RAIPUR:Chhatisgarh Congress president Bhupesh Baghel was declared the state’s chief minister on Sunday.The Congress on Sunday announced his name as Chhattisgarh’s new chief minister.He will take oath tomorrow (December 17) in Raipur. Bhagel will be Chhattisgarh’s third chief minister and the Congress’s second CM in the state. Baghel, 57, is an OBC leader of Kurmi caste from Chhatisgarh’s Durg. He had served as a transport minister…

LUCKNOW: PM Modi inaugurated a Command and Control Centre for the Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, where he went after addressing a public gathering in Raebareli. PM Modi also performed Ganga Pujan at Sangam ghat in the holy city.The mega religious gathering will start in January and will end in March. PM Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of some projects and inaugurated few others worth Rs 1,100 crore during his first visit to UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s Lok Sabha constituency, Rae Bareli. PM Modi also flagged off the 900th…

JAIPUR: Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot will be sworn in as chief minister and deputy chief minister of Rajasthan on Monday.Congress president Rahul Gandhi will also attend the ceremony. Raj Bhawan officials said that the Congress leaders have sought time for a swearing-in ceremony at 10 am on Monday. Gehlot said, “On Monday there will be a swearing-in ceremony of the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister after which the cabinet will be constituted.” Rahul Gandhi tweeted his photo with the ‘two rivals’ on Friday, he chose to caption…

BHOPAL: Veteran leader Kamal Nath will be sworn in as the 18th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh on December 17.The swearing-in ceremony will take place at the Lal Parade Ground in Bhopal at around 1.30 pm on December 17. Kamal Nath said that the promise of farm loan waiver made by the Congress will be fulfilled.There will no Deputy Chief Minister post. Governor Anandiben Patel invited Nath, 72, to form the new government in the state, after he met her at the Raj Bhavan here Friday to stake claim to form…

The Supreme Court dismissed pleas seeking court-monitored probe into India’s Rafale fighter jet deal with France. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has given a much relief to the PM Modi government as the Chief Justice of India has said that ‘No occasion to doubt the process.’ The judgment was delivered by a Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and KM Joseph. The Supreme Court however said that the Rafale deal process was perfectly fine and dismissed all PILs that demanded a court-monitored probe into the Rafale deal. The Supreme Court…

HYDERABAD: TRS Supremo K Chandrasekhar Rao took the oath in Telugu for the chief minister of Telangana. After KCR, Mahmood Ali took the oath in Urdu as deputy chief minister of Telangana. The ceremony has concluded with the national anthem.The governor ESL Narasimhan administered the oath to KCR  and the ceremony began with the national anthem. Rao was unanimously elected leader of the TRS Legislature Party by the newly-elected MLAs Wednesday.Rao has been re-elected from Gajwel assembly constituency in Siddipet district by a margin of 58,290 votes. Under his leadership, the…