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Hindustan Times
a minute ago
- Hindustan Times
Opposition bloc will ‘collectively decide' on VP election: Mallikarjun Kharge
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge told HT on Wednesday that the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) will 'collectively take a decision' for the upcoming vice-president election. The Election Commission of India, earlier in the day, announced that it has already started the preparations relating to the vice-presidential elections, 2025. (PTI) The Election Commission of India, earlier in the day, announced that it 'has already started the preparations relating to the vice-presidential elections, 2025. On completion of the preparatory activities, the announcement of the election schedule to the office of the Vice-President of India will follow as soon as possible.' VP Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned on Monday evening, citing health grounds, in an unexpected move that has rocked Parliament for two days. On Wednesday, Kharge told HT, 'We will call a meeting of the INDIA group parties and take a collective decision on what to do for the VP election.' In the last VP election in 2022, the Congress-led Opposition fielded former Union minister Margaret Alva against Dhankhar. The INDIA bloc came into existence next year when more than 30 parties joined hands to fight the Lok Sabha polls. Kharge added that every party needed to be consulted to arrive at a decision and the bloc will act together on issues inside and outside Parliament. A section of the Congress leaders indicated that the INDIA group will decide its candidate depending on several factors, including the National Democratic Alliance's nominee.
India.com
a minute ago
- India.com
Tulsi Gabbard Drops Bombshell, Claims Obama Led Deep State Coup To Sabotage Trump With Russia Hoax
Washington: Tulsi Gabbard stood behind a thick wooden podium under the lights of the press room. The former Congresswoman, now the director of the National Intelligence, did not hesitate. She held up a stack of papers, freshly declassified, with all the gravity her voice could carry. Her words cut through the room like a knife. She said the documents revealed a deliberate effort by top officials under Barack Obama to use U.S. intelligence against a political rival, Donald Trump. 'This is not politics. This is something darker and calculated,' she told reporters. WATCH: Tulsi Gabbard MASTERFULLY laid out every step in Obama's Russia Collussion Hoax Every minute of this is worth watching. Tulsi is exposing EVERYTHING. It's the DOJ's turn now. — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) July 23, 2025 In a statement she also posted online, she described what she called 'the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history'. According to her, the newly declassified House Intelligence Committee majority staff report, originally compiled in 2017 when Republicans controlled the chamber, uncovered how the Obama administration had knowingly engineered a narrative tying Trump's 2016 victory to Russian interference. Gabbard accused the Obama team of pushing forward with an intelligence assessment in January 2017 that they allegedly knew to be false. 'They promoted the lie that Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win. They conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump... essentially enacting a years-long coup against him,' she wrote. New evidence has emerged of the most egregious weaponization and politicization of intelligence in American history. Per President @realDonaldTrump's directive, I have declassified a @HouseIntel oversight majority staff report that exposes how the Obama Administration… — DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 23, 2025 "There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Barack Obama and his national security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false." - @DNIGabbard — The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 23, 2025 Within hours, former President Obama's team issued an unusually sharp rebuttal. 'Out of respect for the presidency, we usually ignore the noise from this White House. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit a response,' said Patrick Rodenbush, Obama's spokesperson. He called the allegations 'bizarre', 'ridiculous' and a 'weak attempt at distraction'. He said nothing in the declassified report changed the widely accepted conclusion that Russia had indeed tried to influence the 2016 election. He pointed to the 2020 Senate Intelligence Committee report, led by Republican Senator Marco Rubio, which affirmed those findings while also noting no votes had been altered. Meanwhile, Trump seized the moment. At a rally, he did not mince words. 'We caught Hillary Clinton. We caught Barack Hussein Obama. And then you have many, many people under them – Susan Rice, all of them. They figured they would hide this forever in classified information. It does not work that way,' he said, waving his hand for emphasis. Gabbard's report has already sent ripples through Washington. The New York Times confirmed that the report she declassified was drafted years ago by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee. Kash Patel, now Trump's FBI director, was one of the chief authors. Only GOP members worked on the report, including its updates in 2020. While the document challenged the Intelligence Community's conclusion that Putin favoured Trump, it did not dispute the broader finding that Russia had interfered. The House report said the intelligence agencies 'rushed' their work. A more recent CIA analysis echoed that claim, suggesting the process lacked some of the standard professional rigor. Still, major news outlets like CNN and The New York Times remain clear. There is no concrete evidence that Obama, Clinton or other officials ran a 'coup' or conspired to overthrow Trump. On the contrary, they emphasise, Trump's own efforts to subvert the 2020 election remain under scrutiny. Inflation remains high, they note. Tariffs loom. And America's political battlefield remains as bitterly divided as ever. But on this July day, Gabbard's voice landed like a thunderclap, setting the stage for yet another storm in America's long war over truth, power and the ghosts of 2016.
Time of India
26 minutes ago
- Time of India
SC asks Karnataka, Centre to act on 5 tigers' death
Representational Image NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over death of five tigers in MM Hills sanctuary last month, Supreme Court on Wednesday sought Karnataka govt's response and asked the Union ministry of environment and forests to frame policy in consultation with states to end human-animal conflict, resulting in such avoidable tragic incidents. Amicus curiae and senior advocate P Parameshwaran placed the Central Empowered Committee (CEC) report before a three-judge bench led by CJI B R Gavai and said it was a clear case of human-animal conflict as villagers poisoned a cattle carcass which was consumed by a tigress and her four cubs, resulting in their death. He said many cattle of surrounding villages strayed into the sanctuary and were attacked by wild animals, including tigers. It required robust patrolling by forest staff, but it was not being done as the majority of forest staff were hired by contractors. The contractors did not provide these outsourced forest guards, employed in most tiger reserves and sanctuaries, any weapon or scientific equipment to effectively patrol the sanctuary and protect it from stray cattle and poachers, resulting in such unfortunate incidents, Parameshwaran said. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like American Investor Warren Buffett Recommends: 5 Books For Turning Your Life Around Blinkist: Warren Buffett's Reading List Undo The bench asked additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati to ask the MoEF take the initiative by consulting all states and stakeholders to solve this staff issue. Bhati assured the court that it would be done. "This tragic incident underscores the urgent need for stronger preventive measures, including intensified patrolling, robust surveillance mechanisms like camera traps, community engagement to address human-wildlife conflict, rapid response protocols for carcass monitoring, and stricter enforcement of laws against wildlife poisoning to prevent recurrence of such deliberate killings," the CEC said in its report. "Among the tiger landscapes in India, the Western Ghats is an important landscape complex from habitat, population and management points of view," it said.
