As announced in the Budget, the JDS-Congress coalition government on Friday decided to waive off the loans from nationalized banks up to Rs 2 lakh. The Cabinet also decided to waive off current loans up to Rs 2 lakh availed from the nationalized banks and this would cost Rs 32,000 crore burden on the state Exchequer.
Mocking austerity, Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu flew to Singapore to get root canal treatment done at the cost of Rs 2.88 lakh. What's worse, he even sought reimbursement of the same.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he views the Doklam issue as an event and added that Chinese presence is still there.
Opposition Leader in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop pretending for the death of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday told the British Parliament that his party is biased towards the marginalised, the party said.
Senior politician SM Krishna who stamped his image in the national politics and served as Deputy Chief Minister, Chief Minister, Speaker, Governor and Union Minister, is said to be saying goodbye to active politics.
The Congress on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "betraying the people of Varanasi" by failing to clean Ganga as promised, saying that pollution level in the river has increased after 2014.
Britain’s Thomas Cook said it was evacuating all 301 of its customers from a hotel in Egypt’s popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada as a precautionary measure after two of its holidaymakers died in circumstances it said were still unclear.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday hit out at Karuna Shukla, the niece of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, accusing that she was politicising his death.
The BJP on Friday attacked Congress President Rahul Gandhi for comparing the RSS with the Muslim Brotherhood and accused him of possessing hatred against the current government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
