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Sidhu tipped for key Punjab Cong role when out of jail
Will former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu get a crucial assignment after he walks out of Patiala Jail? The buzz in the Congress circles has been triggered after an indication that the former cricketer could walk out of the prison much before the one-year sentence is to end....
Kejriwal alleges stone thrown at him at Surat roadshow
A scuffle broke out between supporters of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday during Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s roadshow in Surat city in poll-bound Gujarat. The incident occurred in Katargam locality in the evening after BJP workers chanted ‘Modi, Modi’ when...
Yogi says new projects to give Agra a new identity
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said the ongoing projects pertaining to Metro and Smart City have given a new identity to Agra, which he said was “one of the dirtiest cities in the country until 2017″. The chief minister was speaking during a rally ‘Prabhudhhjan’ in...
Covid lockdown protests rage in Chinese cities
Hundreds of people took to the streets in China’s major cities on Sunday to protest against the country’s zero-Covid policy, in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state. China’s hardline virus strategy is stoking public frustration, with many growing weary of snap lockdowns, lengthy quarantines and mass...
Data of 500 million WhatsApp users leaked, on sale
In one of the biggest data breaches ever, phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users have been leaked and are up for sale. The database, up for sale on a popular hacking forum, contains the private information of WhatsApp users from 84 countries, according to a report by...
BJP ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ against Rajasthan govt on Dec 1
With an eye on assembly polls due next year in Rajasthan, BJP chief J P Nadda will on December 1 launch the party’s ‘Jan Aakrosh Yatra’ in the Congress-ruled state to corner the Ashok Gehlot government on issues related to farmers and governance. Nadda will flag off 51 Jan...
AAP leader claims party will win over 230 Delhi MCD seats
AAP leader Raghav Chadha on Sunday asserted that his party will win more than 230 out of 250 seats in the upcoming Delhi MCD poll. “The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is going to win the MCD election by a huge margin. People are glad that finally there is an...
Kharge says Modi is ‘chieftain of liars’, sympathy seeker
Congress president Malikarjun Kharge on Sunday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “jhoothon ka sardar” (chieftain of liars), and said the latter tries to gain sympathy by calling himself poor and claiming that people abuse him. Addressing a public rally at Dediapada in tribal-dominated Narmada district of poll-bound Gujarat,...
Owaisi says Amit Shah drunk with power
Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s comment that the BJP in Gujarat “taught rioters a lesson” in 2002, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi Friday said that the actual lesson taught by the saffron party is that perpetrators of the Bilkis Bano rape case “will be freed.” “I want to tell...
Cong threatens action over ‘doctored’ Rahul yatra clip
The Congress vowed to take legal action over a “doctored” video clip and threatened the BJP with “payback” after the ruling party’s top leaders shared the clip with a claim that “Pakistan Zindabad” slogans were heard during Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra that’s currently in Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh...
Notice to man for ‘scandalising’ Supreme Court judge
The Supreme Court on Friday took umbrage at a litigant calling a judge of the court a “terrorist” and directed the registry to issue him a show cause notice as to why he should not be prosecuted for criminal contempt for “scandalising” the judge. “You have to be sent...
Rishi Sunak plans curbs on foreign students
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be considering “all options”, including reducing the number of foreign students, in his bid to bring down the rising net migration in the United Kingdom, according to a report by the BBC. Sunak will be looking into imposing curbs on foreign students pursuing...
Mamata calls for mutual respect among political rivals
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday stressed on the need to have mutual respect among political rivals despite differences, lamenting that an era of intolerance prevails in the country. Banerjee, who was speaking in the assembly on the eve of Constitution Day, also alleged that the BJP-led...
Shah promises help to historians to ‘rewrite history’
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked historians to rewrite history in the Indian context and assured them that the government will support their efforts. “I am student of history and I hear a lot of times that our history has not been presented properly and is distorted. Maybe...
Cracks widen in Rajasthan Cong as Gehlot calls Pilot ‘traitor’
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday stirred up a row with his former deputy Sachin Pilot again, calling him a “gaddar” (traitor) who cannot replace him as he had revolted against the Congress in 2020 and tried to topple his government. The remark drew a sharp response from...
BJP dismisses Gehlot’s charge of hand in Pilot rebellion
Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia on Thursday rejected as baseless Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s allegations that his party had a role in the rebellion by a group of Congress MLAs led by Sachin Pilot in 2020. Poonia also said the BJP had nothing to do with the present crisis...
Sisodia alleges BJP hatching plot to kill Kejriwal
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday alleged that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) conspired to kill Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal. He also claimed that Delhi BJP leader Manoj Tiwari was also involved. He suspected that the conspiracy was hatched in fear of losing the upcoming Gujarat Assembly...
Row over national anthem faux pas at Rahul’s yatra
Rahul Gandhi’s ambitious ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is in the news once again, but this time for all the wrong reasons. A viral video of a wrong song being played instead of the National Anthem for a few minutes during a stop in Maharashtra on Wednesday has triggered a row,...
