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Himachal police files case against Cong rebel’s father
The Himachal Pradesh Police on Sunday registered a case against an independent MLA and the father of a Congress rebel over “electoral offences” related to the recent Rajya Sabha polls in which six party MLAs voted for the BJP candidate from the state. The case against Hamirpur’s independent MLA...
Deve Gowda accuses INDIA Bloc of making a joke of secularism
The JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda said on Saturday that the INDIA bloc is a bundle of groups who have made secularism a joke. In a veiled attack on the INDIA bloc, he reminded them that TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata...
Yusuf Pathan to contest from Adhir Ranjan’s constituency
Former Indian cricketer Yusuf Pathan will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as Trinamool Congress (TMC) Candidate from Berhampore, said party supremo Mamata Banerjee while announcing the names of candidates for all 42 seats of West Bengal. Berhampore is currently held by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and whole...
Cong asks what stops PM from visiting ‘disturbed’ Northeast
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Assam’s Kaziranga National Park, the Congress on Saturday attacked the Centre over the “increasingly disturbed” situation in different parts of the Northeast, and asked why the PM had not found time to visit the violence-hit Manipur yet. Prime Minister Modi took the elephant...
Shah asks Shinde to change some Sena candidates
In a major development in the seat-sharing talks between the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ in Maharashtra, Union Home Minister Amit Shah advised chief minister Eknath Shinde to ‘change some Shiv Sena candidates’ for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In the 2 hour-long meeting, which was held at Shah’s residence late on Friday,...
RSS meet to deliberate on Sandeshkhali, farmers’ protest
West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali and the uprising by women following the allegations of sexual assault and coerced slavery by local politicians are likely to be at the forefront of discussions in RSS’s ‘Pratinidhi Sabha’ scheduled to be held between March 15 and 18 in Nagpur. Pratinidhi Sabha is the organisation’s...
Sukhu indicates willingness to talk to rebels
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu suggested dialogue as a way out of the crisis triggered last week by six party rebels as he headed Thursday to Delhi for a meeting with the Congress central leadership. As he softened his stand towards the Congress rebels who cross-voted in...
Omar Abdullah cautions against personal remarks on PM
National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah here on Friday said personal attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi backfire for the opposition and slogans about his family only secure a self-goal. Omar Abdullah’s remarks came in response to a question about RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s jibe on the...
BJP, Navin Patnaik’s BJD confirm alliance talks
‘Rising Odisha’ seems to be the central idea of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) ‘forging an alliance’ with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Sources told News18 that Naveen Patanaik’s party needs funds for various projects in Odisha and “double engine government will...
Modi meets gang-rape survivors from Sandeshkhali, assures support
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met five gang-rape survivors from Shandeshkhali, shortly after addressing a women’s rally at Barasat in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on Wednesday afternoon. He assured them support on behalf of his party (BJP) in their fight for justice against the atrocities meted out to them...
CBI team at Bengal Police HQ for Shahjahan Sheikh’s custody
As the Calcutta High Court’s deadline to hand over TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) ended at 4 pm on Wednesday, the teams of the central agency reached the state Police headquarters in Kolkata. Around 4.15 pm, CBI teams arrived at the state headquarters...
Suspension of 7 BJP MLAs from Delhi assembly set aside
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set aside the suspension of seven BJP MLAs from the Legislative Assembly for interrupting Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena’s address at the start of the Budget session. The seven Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs — Mohan Singh Bisht, Ajay Mahawar, O P Sharma,...
Bengal tells SC Sandeshkhali case transfer a violation of law
The West Bengal government told the Supreme Court that the transfer of investigation in the Sandeshkhali case to the CBI in a “cursory manner” violates the law laid down by the apex court. In its plea, accessed by CNN-News18, the state government said the Calcutta High Court’s order to...
ED seizes Shahjahan Sheikh’s properties after TMC suspension
The Enforcement Directorate seized nearly Rs 13 crore worth of property belonging to suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh on Tuesday. Sheikh is one of the main accused in the Sandeshkhali violence and sexual harassment case. In a post on X, the federal agency said that it has attached “14...
Revised Karnataka textbooks include reference to Sanatana Dharma
The Karnataka government has finalised the revision of textbooks for classes one to ten, introducing key changes that are likely to fuel debates and controversies, especially around “Sanatana Dharma”. This came amid controversy on remarks by DMK leaders. The revision, now set for printing, includes a notable addition of...
Rahul to announce 10-point poll promise for youth, jobless
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is likely to announce a 10-point poll promise for the youth and unemployed people of the country in the run-up to the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Gandhi scion will make the announcement at a rally in Badnawar District of Madhya Pradesh with Congress president...
DMK’s A Raja says ‘We’re Enemies Of Ram’, BJP questions INDIA Bloc’s silence
Addressing a public meeting in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP A Raja criticised Hindu beliefs, targetted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, made derogatory comments on Manipur and questioned the idea of India as a nation. Irked by his comments, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) responded by questioning...
TMC MLA stokes controversy calling Ram Mandir ‘unholy’
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Ramendu Sinha Roy has stoked a massive controversy for calling Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir “unholy” and a “show piece”. His comments enraged BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari who called the statement “simply outrageous”, and said that Roy’s words shows TMC leadership’s respect for Lord Ram. “In my opinion...
