"More and more Babri Masjids are going to be created by these kind of wicked people," an IUML MP said in the Lok Sabha.

The union minister of state for rural development, Chandra Sekhar Pemmasani, said that the centre has no role in MGNREGA job card deletions and denied any role played by the mandatory Aadhaar-based payment system in it.

The agreement comes even as both houses cumulatively functioned for only 30 minutes before being adjourned for the day.

Rajya Sabha chairperson and the country's vice-president, Jagdeep Dhankhar, said today that Rule 267, under which adjournment notices had been submitted by members of the opposition, was being 'weaponised as a mechanism for disruption.'

The resolution adopted at the end of the Congress Working Committee meeting said that the electoral process was being severely compromised.

Rajya Sabha chairperson Jagdeep Dhankhar said that the disruptions in parliament are 'not a remedy but a malady’ while in the Lok Sabha, union minister Kiren Rijiju accused Congress and the opposition of creating a ruckus.

Handed its second consecutive defeat in Jharkhand, the BJP faced its worst performance in the state in a decade, winning 21 seats, down from 25 seats in 2019 and 37 in 2014. 

Armed with a large social media following and growing popularity, as evidenced in his packed campaign rallies, Mahato’s politics is about asserting the Jharkhandi identity.

The MCC and the CPI (ML), which formally merged at an “Ekta Rally” in September with an aim at bolstering Left forces against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will face its test in Sindri and Nirsa where the BJP holds both seats

While the rhetoric of infiltration has become central to the BJP’s campaign, Santhal Pargana residents who spoke to ‘The Wire’ labelled it election propaganda.

Hemant Soren’s brother Basant is contesting against former Dumka MP Sunil Soren, while former BJP MLA Lois Marandi – who once defeated Hemant Soren in Dumka – is taking on her former party colleague Suresh Murmu in Jama.

The notice comes amid a concerning rise in the list of NGOs who have had their FCRA licences cancelled. 

The Wire’s Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Seema Chishti, editor at The Wire and Maneesh Chhibber, senior journalist.

At a joint press conference in Ranchi on Tuesday, the INDIA bloc released seven guarantees for the upcoming Jharkhand elections.

Union home minister Amit Shah once again raised the rhetoric of Bangladeshi infiltrators in Jharkhand and accused the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha of allowing it.

The memorandum by the INDIA bloc states the use of “extremely divisive and hateful words” by Sarma targeting Muslims in a speech on November 1.

Experts say that such calls deprive women of their bodily autonomy and threaten to undo decades of progress in population stabilisation and women’s empowerment

The Wire's Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Ajoy Ashirwad, political editor, The Wire and Vinod Sharma, senior journalist.

In an interview with The Wire, Haridas who is fighting her maiden parliamentary election said that Rahul Gandhi had betrayed the people of Wayanad when he chose to retain the Rae Bareli after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

The PAC was expected to focus on the conflict of interest charges levelled against Buch by the Congress as well as US-based shortseller Hindenburg Research.