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Pawar gives Shinde govt 6 months time before collapse
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday said that mid-term polls are likely in Maharashtra as the government led by rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde may fall in the next six months. He made the statement while addressing NCP legislators and other leaders of the party...
Modi’s Bhagyanagar name for Hyderabad sparks buzz
Hyderabad or Bhagyanagar? Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the city for the big BJP meet, referred to Telangana capital as Bhagyanagar during his address to the delegates from across the country. The Prime Minister said that it was in Bhagyanagar that Sardar Patel, the freedom fighter icon, had coined...
Stalin threatens to turn ‘dictator’ if party men don’t behave
“I will become a dictator and take action if indiscipline and irregularity rear their heads,” Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M K Stalin asserted in Namakkal on Sunday, addressing a party meet of representatives of urban local bodies. Underscoring that local bodies are the lifeline of democracy,...
Lashkar terrorist was Jammu BJP Morcha IT cell chief
A wanted Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist captured in Jammu and Kashmir was an active member of BJP. He was also the party’s Minority Morcha social media in-charge in Jammu. Talib Hussain Shah and his accomplice were captured by the villagers in Jammu’s Reasi area this morning. Two AK rifles, several grenades...
Shiv Sena MPs undecided on joining Shinde camp
Shiv Sena parliamentarians are still undecided on joining the breakaway faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde amid claims by the BJP leaders that at least a dozen Lok Sabha members were in touch with them. A central BJP minister claimed that the split in the Shiv Sena...
Man arrested for social media post against PM Modi
A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly posting objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his social media account, police said here on Friday. The accused, Rehan, hailing from Nadayal village under Sahaswan police station limits, had made the post carrying objectionable remarks against PM Modi and...
Supreme Court holds Nupur responsible for igniting tension
The Supreme Court today blamed suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma for igniting tension with her comments on Prophet Muhammad and said she should “apologise to the whole country”. “The way she has ignited emotions across the country. This lady is single-handedly responsible for what is happening in the country,”...
Eknath Shinde projects himself as Bal Thackeray’s real heir
Eknath Shinde, who took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra after nine days of rebellion against Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray leadership, has sent out a subtle message positioning himself as the political heir to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Right after the oath ceremony, Shinde changed the profile...
Pawar says Fadnavis cannot but be unhappy being No.2
The BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, who took oath as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra after a party command today, could not have done so “happily”, veteran politician Sharad Pawar has said. Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party — part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi — lost power as Uddhav Thackeray stepped...
Uddhav Thackeray, sons visit temple after resignation
Uddhav Thackeray, out of power in Maharashtra and marginalised in the party founded by his father, rounded up the day with a visit to a temple in Mumbai. He was accompanied by his sons Aaditya Thackeray and Tejas Thackeray. The eight-day political drama that started with the rebellion of...
Actor Swara Bhasker receives death threat letter
Actor Swara Bhasker has received a death threat in a letter following which Mumbai police have launched an investigation, an official said on Wednesday. The letter was sent to the actor’s residence located in Versova, he said. After receiving the letter, Swara Bhasker approached Versova police station two days...
Muslim body chief condemns Udaipur killing as un-Islamic
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Tuesday condemned the Udaipur killing incident and called it against Islam and the law of the land. “Maulana Halceemuddin Qasmi, General Secretary of the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, has condemned the incident of brutal killing in Udaipur apparently on the pretext of the insult to the Prophet (PBUH)...
Owaisi condemns killing, but with a rider
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi today said every violence has to be condemned and that “radicalisation has to be controlled” in the country, after a tailor’s throat was slit by two men in Rajasthan’s Udaipur in Taliban-style execution. “I cannot sit here comfortably and condemn what has happened in Udaipur...
Governor orders Uddhav to prove majority tomorrow
The Maharashtra Governor has asked Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to prove majority tomorrow. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has written to the Assembly Secretary Rajendra Bhagwat calling for a special session at 11 am for Mr Thackeray to prove his majority, a week after nearly 40 MLAs rebelled against him....
Governor may ask for trust vote in Maharashtra tussle
As both sides have refused to blink and appear prepared for a long fight, sources say Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari may ask the Maharashtra government to prove majority in the house sometime this week. Sources claim that the Eknath Shinde camp is consulting lawyers over the Constitutional provisions for holding a...
Rahul Gandhi blasts Alt News co-founder Zubair’s arrest
Soon after the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said arresting one voice of truth will only give rise to a thousand more. Zubair was arrested by the Delhi Police on Monday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through one of his tweets,...
Fuel shortage forces Lanka to allow only essential services
Sri Lanka, hit by a massive economic crisis, has run out of fuel and only essential services will operate starting midnight. The list of essential services will include health, law and order, ports, airport, food distribution and agriculture. All non-essential services have been suspended till July 10, and the...
Key Uddhav aide Raut summoned by ED for ‘money laundering’
Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, among the most vociferous backers of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray amid a revolt in the party, has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai for questioning tomorrow in a case of alleged money laundering. Team Thackeray has been saying that the mutiny...
