BENGALURU: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said his party should have struck an alliance with Mamata Banerjee s TMC in the recent West Bengal elections, even as he expressed anguish over ad-hocism in the grand old outfit.
The former Union minister also sought action against West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for the poll debacle in the state, describing him as a weak leader with no grassroots touch .
In an interview to PTI, Moily cited wrong selection of alliance for the wipe-out of the party in the state, where it had aligned with the Left and the Indian Secular Front.
Some Murder Cases Grow Cold. For Victims Families, the Pain Remains Hot | Opinion Rep. Eric Swalwell and Glenn Kirschner On 5/19/21 at 1:45 PM EDT
Angel Turner still hopes to find justice in the 1997 slaying of her sister, Georgia Leah Moses. Moses who would ve turned 36 this year was last seen alive at age 12, not far from her Santa Rosa, Calif. home; her strangled, decomposed body was found about a week later in a grove of trees off Highway 101 near Petaluma. The Sonoma County Sheriff s Office released a sketch of a man Moses was believed to be last seen with, but he was never identified and police never named a person of interest in the case.
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McConnell Opposes Commission to Investigate Capitol Riot
Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, said Wednesday that he opposed a bipartisan plan to create a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
I’ve made the decision to oppose the House Democrats’ slanted an unbalanced proposal for another commission to study the events of January the 6th. As everybody surely knows, I repeatedly made my views about the events of Jan. 6 very clear. I spoke clearly and left no doubt about my conclusions. So there is, has been and there will continue to be no shortage, no shortage of robust investigations by two separate branches of the federal government. So, Mr. President, it’s not at all clear what new facts or additional investigation yet another commission could actually lay on top of existing efforts by law enforcement and Congress. The facts have come out and they’ll continue to come out. What is clear is that House Democrats ha
Religious figures criticise linking Kumbh with COVID-19 spread
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Last Updated: May 19, 2021, 08:15 PM IST
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Though the seers did not name any political party, their comments came a day after the BJP accused the Congress of preparing a toolkit to target the Modi government over the second wave of the pandemic and linking the decision to hold the Kumbh with the surge.
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Several prominent Hindu religious figures on Wednesday criticised attempts to link the recent Kumbh Mela in Haridwar with the spread of COVID-19, saying it is an insult to people s faith and traditions. They also claimed that Uttarakhand did not witness much of a rise in the infections at the time of the festival.
India News: NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government over a hike in fertiliser prices, and said this will put an additional burd.