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BJP MLAs demand UT for North Bengal at Shah rally
Claiming that the people of the northern part of West Bengal have been deprived of development, two BJP MLAs on Thursday demanded a union territory (UT) for North Bengal at a party rally which was later addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, a...
Mamata blasts Shah for spreading lies about Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah is spreading lies about the situation in West Bengal while turning a blind eye to the communal violence and attacks on women in BJP-ruled states. The Centre is dispatching teams of NHRC and others to West...
Third TN bill to snatch Governor’s powers passed
The MK Stalin-led administration is determined to curtail the powers of governor RN Ravi to appoint vice chancellors of universities in Tamil Nadu, thus empowering the state government to take the final call. Taking the ongoing tussle with Ravi to the next level, the DMK government passed three bills...
150 MNS workers held in Nashik for communal tension
At least 150 workers of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have so far been arrested by the police for sparking communal tensions in Nashik. “Preventive actions are being taken against those involved in such activities. Cops have been deployed in all sensitive spots to ensure law and order,” said Inspector...
SC orders notification of M’rashtra civic polls
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Maharashtra State Election Commission to notify the programme for local bodies elections within two weeks. While elections have been long-delayed due to a major delimitation exercise, a three-judge bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Abhay S Oka, and C T Ravikumar said...
Cong lawyers protest against Chidambaram at Calcutta HC
Congress leader and senior advocate P Chidambaram on Wednesday faced a massive backlash from a section of lawyers, claiming to be supporters of the Congress, outside the Calcutta High Court for representing agro-processing firm Keventer. Accusing Chidambaram of playing with the sentiment of the grand old party, the lawyers...
MNS workers blare ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ during 5am Azaan
Hours after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray set up the stage for a possible confrontation as he urged people to show the “strength of a Hindu now or never”, MNS workers played Hanuman Chalisa in loudspeakers during the first namaz at 5 am on Wednesday morning in Mumbai’s...
AAP agrees ‘in principle’ on removing loudspeakers
Hours after its Kalkaji MLA Atishi opposed the BJP’s demand for removal of loudspeakers from religious places in Delhi, the AAP on Tuesday came out with a clarification, saying it agrees “in principle” with the idea that loudspeakers be removed from “every religious institution and centres of faith alike”....
India is `not fine’ due to politics of isolation, says Mamata
Lamenting that the policy of divide and rule and politics of isolation have created a situation where the country is not fine, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asked people to unite to change the situation. Participating in Eid-ul-Fitr prayers held on a rain-drenched Red Road here,...
Prashant Kishor indicates Bihar to be his next stop
Election strategist Prashant Kishor, in the news recently for a failed attempt to join hands with the Congress, on Monday dropped a hint about his future plans as he took to Twitter to divulge his roadmap on completing 10 years of helping “shape pro-people policy”. “My quest to be...
Kejriwal announces alliance with Gujarat tribal party
Ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls due later this year, Aam Aadmi Party’s national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he stands with the tribals of Gujarat and is happy to work with Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) founder Chhotu Vasava to bring about a change in the state and...
Raj Thackeray sets deadline for removing loudspeakers
The loudspeaker row deepened in Maharashtra after MNS chief Raj Thackeray said on Sunday that if loudspeakers are not removed from mosques, his party workers would play the Hanuman Chalisa. He also warned that if from May 4 onwards, loudspeakers are not removed, “we won’t keep quiet”. “What happens...
Commercial LPG, jet fuel prices hiked further
The price of a 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder has been hiked by Rs 102.5 to Rs 2,355.50, compared with Rs 2,253 earlier. A five-kg LPG cylinder is now priced at Rs 655. Apart from this, jet fuel prices on Sunday were also hiked by 3.22 per cent — the...
Sena claims Fadnavis wanted Mumbai out of Maharashtra
The Shiv Sena on Sunday make shocking claims against former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and the Bharatiya Janata Party. On Maharashtra Day, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party, in its mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, alleged that Fadnavis and his team are “conspiring to break away Mumbai from Maharashtra”. The party accused its former...
More action likely at Raj Thackeray’s Aurangabad rally
On Maharashtra Day, high-voltage action is expected in the state with Raj Thackeray holding a mega rally in Aurangabad on Sunday (May 1). The public meeting holds significance as it comes months after the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief stoked a major controversy by giving an ultimatum to the...
Assam CM says Muslim women need uniform civil code
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday added fuel to fire on the debate on the need for Uniform Civil Code, calling it ‘an issue for every Muslim woman, who did not want her husband to bring home three other wives’. “Everybody wants UCC. No Muslim woman wants...
21 Naga People’s Front MLAs Join CM Rio’s NDPP
In a major political development, 21 MLAs of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) on Friday joined the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) of Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio. NDPP spokesperson Merentoshi R Jamir said that after these legislators of the NPF, which had 25 legislators earlier, switched sides, the...
Clerics advise ‘Alvida Namaz’ only at home, mosques
Amid the ongoing controversy over use of loudspeakers, Muslim clerics have appealed to people to offer the ‘Alvida’ Namaz on the occasion of last Friday of Ramzan only in designated places to avoid causing any inconvenience to others. Meanwhile, the administration has beefed up security at several places that...
