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No question of allowing religion-based reservation: Nadda
BJP president J P Nadda said on Monday that there will be no reservation based on religion as long as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the party are in power. Accusing the opposition of planning to give reservation based on religion, he said, “It is clearly written in the...
Modi says ‘big fish facing the law’ in zero-tolerance policy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday talked about his government’s zero-tolerance policy on corruption and said that the BJP has focussed on policy-driven governance in the past 10 years. Bringing in the reference of “Khan Market Gang”, the Prime Minister attacked the Opposition for the “glorification of the corrupts”....
Cong leader says CM Mann living like a king
“Captain Amarinder Singh was genuinely feudal but Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is worse. He is living like a king with thousands of security men and misusing state choppers. He is totally disconnected with the people on the ground,” said Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira in an interview with News18...
Row over Mamata’s ‘End of Scriptures’ Remark
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has sparked a row ahead of the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections. In a video of a campaign speech, she is purportedly seen talking about the end of religious scriptures such as the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bible, and Quran. The...
Akhilesh says Modi has lost confidence due to fear of loss
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lost self-confidence and has been faltering in his speeches upon realising the BJP will not retain power at the Centre, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed on Sunday. He described the BJP’s allegation that if the INDIA bloc forms government at the Centre it...
Kejriwal seeks 7-day extension of interim bail
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking an extension of his bail by 7 days on medical grounds. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) The plea said the chief minister is required to undergo some medical tests and for this purpose, the interim bail,...
Amit Shah blames Rahul for Cong ‘behaviour’ in parliament
Union home minister Amit Shah hit out at the Congress, especially targeting the party’s senior leader Rahul Gandhi, over its “disruptive behaviour” in Parliament. He said the grand old party has changed after the entry of the Gandhi scion and the “standard of politics” has dropped to an all-time...
Nitish Kumar’s faux pas about Modi’s return as CM
JD (U) president Nitish Kumar on Sunday wished another term as “chief minister” for Narendra Modi, who had ruled Gujarat prior to becoming the prime minister. The Bihar chief minister, who has of late been making news for goof-ups, made the faux pas at an election rally on the...
Yogi warns harassers of women about ‘Yamraaj’
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said if anybody dares to harass women and businessmen in the state, ”Yamraaj” would be waiting for that person at the next crossroads. At an election rally in Ghazipur, he said the gangsters who once flouted the law openly, are being...
Jaishankar slams ‘international Khan Market gang’
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday slammed the Western media and called the anti-India ecosystem the “international Khan Market gang”. “In the country today, there is a certain thought process, or entitlement process for which the metaphor of ‘Khan Market Gang’ is a very good description. I want...
Modi accuses Cong of backing Muslim Shariah law
Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress on Friday for extending their support to Islamic law Sharia under the guise of the Muslim Personal law. He also pressed on the need to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a common set of laws that would cover customary laws across...
Kejriwal rejects Swati Maliwal’s allegations in assault case
Amid the ongoing probe into the allegations levelled against Arvind Kejriwal’s close aide Bibhav Kumar by AAP MP Swati Maliwal, the Delhi Chief Minister on Saturday maintained his silence on the issue and said that he wasn’t present when the incident happened. Kejriwal further clarified his stance stating that...
LG, AAP leaders spar over claims of voting disruptions
The night before the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) V K Saxena and leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) clashed over allegations of voter disruption. In a post on social media, AAP Minister Atishi alleged that the Delhi LG had instructed the police...
Modi says panel to study hosting of Olympics
The successful conduct of the G20 Summit last year has boosted the Indian people’s confidence that the country is ready to host the Olympics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in an exclusive interview with News18’s Aman Sharma and Payal Mehta on Saturday. He added that he has formed a...
Lalu worked neither for backward classes nor Yadavs: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday launched a blistering attack on Lalu Prasad, alleging that the RJD chief worked neither for the welfare of backward classes nor the people belonging to his caste ‘Yadav’. Addressing an election rally in favour of senior BJP leader and Union Minister R...
BJP alleges Bengal curbs against PM’s roadshow
Sharing an order issued by the Kolkata Police on May 22, state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Friday alleged that prohibitory orders under section 144 of the CrPC were imposed in central Kolkata to stop PM Narendra Modi’s roadshow in the city. Quoting Majumdar’s post on X, the Kolkata...
Modi has accepted excise case as ‘fake’, claims Kejriwal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accepted that the excise policy case is “completely fake” and hence everyone arrested in the matter should be released, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed on Friday. Addressing a press conference virtually, Kejriwal said the BJP has been screaming that there has been a...
Modi says Pakistanis know him to be cause of their worries
Calling himself the biggest reason for Pakistan’s worries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he had personally visited Lahore and checked the ‘power’ of the neighbouring country. The Prime Minister’s jibe came in reference to Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s “India should respect Pakistan because it has the nuclear bomb”...
