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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, sitting at desk second from right, speaks with Supreme Court President Maikel Moreno at the Supreme Court before giving his annual presidential address in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP)

Venezuela court orders takeover of 2 major opposition parties

Venezuela’s Supreme Court is known to be loyal to current president Nicolás Maduro

17 Jun 2020 11:19 AM

In the Rajya Sabha, the Trinamul Congress has given notice under Rule 267 for suspension of rules to discuss the “raging anti CAA-NRC-NPR people’s movement in India”. (Photo: PTI)

Opposition parties set to take on govt over CAA-NRC

Sources said that if Speaker Om Birla does not allow the motions to be taken up, the party will disrupt Question Hour.

03 Feb 2020 3:46 AM

As violence and unrest spread across various states against the legislation, the Prime Minister, in a series of tweets on Monday, termed violent protests across the country against CAA as “unfortunate and deeply distressing”, and appealed to people to stay away from rumour-mongering and not let “vested interests” divide the society. (Photo: ANI)

BJP blames Congress for ‘misleading’ people

The BJP asserted that violent protests against CAA were “a conspiracy of the Opposition and certain other parties”.

17 Dec 2019 6:45 AM

‘Bills passed in a hurry’: Opposition protests to Venkaiah Naidu

The Opposition parties also demanded that short duration appeals should be allowed in the House.

27 Jul 2019 7:47 AM

One could argue that with the decline of the Congress’ dominance their raison d’etre of anti-Congressism is gone.

Oppn parties unable to reinvent themselves

In India, a number of political parties, it seems, will be even more shortlived. Most of them, unfortunately, are in the Opposition.

04 Jul 2019 12:02 AM

Congress yet to pick its leader in Lok Sabha

There is also no official word on when such a meeting of the opposition parties could be held.

17 Jun 2019 2:48 AM

A missed tie-up here or there, and a wrong candidate in some or other constituency was not the reason this election ended in the way it did. (Representational image)

Assess, rectify, reflect on how far we strayed

The defeated leaders will not be short of advice, particularly from the media on what went wrong and what they should now do.

26 May 2019 6:51 AM

BSP chief Mayawati and SP president Akhilesh Yadav (Photo: File)

By failing to unite, Oppn seems to forget history

The test before the Oppn parties is to at least get the narrative right even though they appear to have failed in getting their arithmetic right.

09 Mar 2019 6:47 AM

Congress president Rahul Gandhi reads a joint statement after the Opposition parties’ meet at Parliament House complex in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Pritam Bandyopadhyay)

Opposition blasts ‘blatant politicisation’ of sacrifices

Leaders paid homage to soldiers killed in Pulwama attack, express solidarity with Armed Forces.

28 Feb 2019 7:11 AM

UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi (Photo: PTI)

Congress relies on Sonia Gandhi to win allies

Top leaders of DMK, TMC, TDP likely to attend December 10 meeting.

07 Dec 2018 2:28 AM

Dassault Aviation will deliver its Rafale fighter jets to India from 2019 and may see new orders in coming months, Chief Executive Eric Trappier told Reuters ahead of the world’s largest business jet show in Orlando on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Dassault to deliver Rafale fighter jets to India from 2019: CEO

India signed a deal with Dassault in 2016 for the transfer of 36 Rafale jets but the deal has since faced criticism.

16 Oct 2018 8:42 AM

2019: BJP builds youth army of docs, engineers

30,000 volunteers to work as party’s eyes and ears.

14 Oct 2018 1:45 AM

At least 14 people have died of starvation in Jharkhand, the state where the Malhars live, activists say.

For India's poor, Aadhaar card can be the difference between life and death

Modi’s office did not respond to requests for comment on the starvation deaths.

12 Sep 2018 12:04 PM

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, flanked by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, joins other senior Opposition leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad and Sharad Yadav, at the Bharat Bandh protest in New Delhi. (Photo: Bunny Smith)

Bharat Bandh exposes faultlines in Opposition

An SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh is crucial to the Opposition’s hopes of removing the Narendra Modi government from power in 2019.

11 Sep 2018 1:08 AM

Congress President Rahul Gandhi (Photo: PTI/File)

It’s BJP vs all Oppn parties in 2019, says Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi said that there is a full-blown crisis in India and its called the job crisis and the Indian government is not accepting it.

26 Aug 2018 5:02 AM

BJP’s victory signals its alliance will hold in 2019

The BJP has shown that some of its allies, despite their grouses with the saffron party, are likely to stick with it in next year’s Lok Sabha polls.

10 Aug 2018 12:44 AM

Congress leaders meet Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao.

Opposition unites to meet gov on reservation

Maratha protesters are demanding that MLAs belonging to the community should resign in support to agitation.

31 Jul 2018 2:20 AM

Banerjee is scheduled to arrive in Delhi on July 31. (Photo: File)

Mamata Banerjee to be in Delhi to invite opposition leaders for 'federal front' rally

Banerjee has been trying to stitch together a federal front of regional parties to take on the ruling BJP in the next general election.

23 Jul 2018 8:45 PM

The party charged the Modi dispensation with “duping” farmers and said that it had failed to live up to its promise of fixing MSP at 50 per cent above the cost of production.

Opposition parties call MSP hike another ‘jumla’

The party also alleged that the government is not serious in solving the issues that have been troubling farmers.

05 Jul 2018 7:06 AM

'There is a fear in the mind of Narendra Modi that they (BJP) will lose all the four States, or at least three. With that apprehension and fear psychology, they are thinking on these lines (advancing polls)', Moily alleged. (Photo: PTI | File)

PM, BJP can't decide arbitrarily on whether or not to advance LS poll: M Veerappa Moily

Congress leader M Veerappa Moily called on the Opposition to unite for taking on the BJP in the next general elections.

02 Jul 2018 3:33 PM

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