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Ranas to visit Delhi to complain against mistreatment
MP Navneet Rana and her husband Ravi Rana will visit Delhi today and inform Home Ministry officials about the sedition charges against them, ‘vendetta politics’ through BMC action and their mistreatment in custody. And back home, the civic body officials are likely to visit the Ranas’ residence for a...
MNS, Shiv Sena in new feud over Ayodhya visit
After the loudspeaker controversy, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Shiv Sena have now locked horns over destination Ayodhya. After MNS chief Raj Thackeray announced his June 5 visit to Ayodhya, Maharashtra’s tourism and environment minister Aaditya Thackeray said at a press conference that he along with Shiv Sena...
Cops hurt in clashes at Maharashtra steel factory
Nineteen policemen were injured and 12 of their vehicles damaged when they tried to control attack on employees of a steel company by over 100 members of a labour union here in Maharashtra, an official said on Sunday. The police have so far arrested 27 people in connection with...
BJP leader files HC plea to open 20 rooms of Taj Mahal
The Allahabad high court has received a petition before its Lucknow bench seeking it to issue directives to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to open 20 rooms inside the world’s wonder — Taj Mahal in Agra to find if Hindu idols and inscriptions are hidden there. The plea...
‘Khalistan’ flags draped over Himachal Assembly gates
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jairam Thakur has ordered an investigation after flags of ‘Khalistan’ were found draped over the gates and boundary wall of the Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly in Dharamshala this morning. Pro-Khalistan graffiti was also painted the walls. The state police said they suspect the involvement of...
CBI searches Punjab AAP MLA’s properties in fraud case
The Central Bureau of Investigation today carried out searches at the premises of Punjab Aam Aadmi Party MLA Jaswant Singh Gajjan Majra in an alleged Rs 40 crore bank fraud case. Three premises in Sangrur, including his residence, were searched in Punjab’s Sangrur. During the searches, conducted after an FIR...
Cyclone rain forecast in Odisha, Bengal, Andhra
Cyclone Asani could bring light to moderate rain with heavy rain in isolated areas in Odisha, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh from Tuesday, the weather office announced today. Deep depression in the Bay of Bengal intensified in to the cyclonic storm which is moving at 16kmph in northwest direction. The...
Bagga gets relief from HC hours after court warrant
Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Singh Bagga got relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court at a latenight hearing on Saturday. The court ordered that no coercive action should be taken against the BJYM leader till the next hearing on May 10. This order came hours after a Mohali...
Domestic cooking gas price raised again
The price of domestic cooking gas was hiked by ₹ 50 per cylinder on Saturday, the second increase in its prices in two months. Now, a 14.2-kg non-subsidised cooking gas cylinder, also known as LPG cylinder, will now cost Rs 999.50 in Delhi. Earlier, on March 22, the price...
Delhi police security for Bagga, case against Punjab police
The Delhi Police on Friday registered a case of kidnapping after BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was arrested by Punjab Police personnel, officials said. They claimed that the Punjab Police team did not inform the local police before arresting Tajinder Bagga from his residence in Delhi’s Janakpuri. Tajinder...
Nadda says Kerala is breeding centre for Islamic terrorism
BJP national president J P Nadda on Friday accused the Left government in Kerala of “encouraging Islamic terrorism”, claiming that the southern state has become a “breeding centre” for the same under its rule. Addressing a rally organised by the saffron party in Kozhikode, the BJP chief alleged that...
Centre asks states to import coal to raise power output
Amid power cuts due to the low availability of coal and high demand, the central government has invoked an emergency law to start electricity generation at some idle power plants that are running on imported coal, according to a report. These idle plants are not producing electricity due to...
Shah tells Bengal partymen President’s rule not possible
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asked the BJP state unit to strengthen the party organization in order to put up a fight against the ruling party. In an internal closed-door party meeting, referring to demands for imposing President’s Rule in the state, Shah also said it was...
Punjab cops arrest BJP leader from Delhi home
BJP leader Tajinder Bagga has been arrested by Punjab police and is now being taken to Mohali from Delhi, where a case had been reportedly registered against him at the cyber cell of the station. Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga, the national secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM),...
JK Cong calls delimitation panel report ‘biased’
The Jammu and Kashmir Congress on Thursday sharply reacted to the report of the Delimitation Commission, terming it totally biased, faulty, politically motivated and against the basic norms of delimitation. It also hit out at the commission for neglecting the fundamental principles and norms and ignoring the aspirations...
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...
