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Karnataka BJP plans stir over Hindu word origin row
Karnataka BJP has decided to launch a big agitation all over the state over the Hindu word origin row. According to the insiders in the state BJP unit, direction has been given to launch agitations in all the district headquarters. The directions have also been given to lodge a...
Nitish renews call for all-India caste census after SC verdict
A day after the Supreme Court backed the Centre’s 10 per cent quota for the poor or EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) in jobs and education, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called for a nationwide caste census while his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin’s party said his government would challenge...
Jolt to Cong as 26 Himachal leaders join BJP
As many as 26 leaders of the Congress party, including Dharampal Thakur Khand, former general secretary of the Pradesh Congress Committee have joined the ruling BJP. Coming as a big jolt to the party, the leaders jumped the boat in the presence of Jairam Thakur and BJP state elections...
Rahul courts controversy by inadvertent reference Shivaji
Bound on the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has come under spotlight for making a statement on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in which he calls the Maratha ruler “aapki history” while addressing a crowd during the Maharashtra leg of his unity march on Monday. In a speech during his yatra,...
Relief to Cong as HC sets aside order to block Twitter handles
In a major relief to Congress, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday set aside a trial court’s order to Twitter to block INC and Bharat Jodo Yatra handles over the alleged unauthorised use of music from the Kannada film ‘KGF Chapter-2’, calling it “punitive action.” A division bench of...
Kejriwal says BJP upset by people’s love for him
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he was “the darling of the people” and alleged that the BJP was troubled by the love he was getting. Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party have come in for fierce criticism ahead of elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi...
Govt extends electoral bonds sale for 15 more days
Centre on Monday amended the electoral bonds scheme through a gazette notification, facilitating their sale for 15 extra days during the “year of general elections to the legislative assembly of states and Union territories with legislature”. Prior to the amendment, only an additional period of 30 days was allowed...
Rajnath says Cong ‘wide’, AAP no-ball, only BJP good length
Senior BJP leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday used cricket analogies to take a dig at opposition parties, dubbing Congress as a “Wide Ball” and AAP as a “No Ball”. Addressing election rallies in assembly segments of Baijnath and Balh in Himachal Pradesh, Singh described BJP as...
Karnataka Cong chief sparks row over origin of ‘Hindu’ word
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) Chief Satish Laxmanrao Jarkiholi sparked a row as he claimed that the word ‘Hindu’ hails from Persia and not India. Not only this, he called the word “horrible” and asked what is its relation with India. He was speaking during an event in Belagavi...
Rahul’s yatra enters Maharashtra for 15-day leg
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said small and medium businesses suffered due to “wrong” policies of the Centre like demonetisation and poor implementation of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) as he entered Maharashtra on Monday night holding a ‘flaming torch’ (mashaal) as part of his ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’. Rahul...
Karnataka court orders blocking of Cong Twitter account
A Bengaluru court has ordered the temporary blocking of the Congress’s Twitter handle after a music firm filed a copyright case against the party for playing song from the movie KGF-2 at the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Congress MP Rahul Gandhi. M Naveen Kumar, who manages MRT music,...
Supreme Court upholds 10% economic reservation
The Supreme Court today upheld the 10 per cent reservation in all colleges and government jobs for the poorer sections of India’s so-called “upper castes”. Two judges — CJI UU Lalit and Justice S Ravindra Bhat – of the 5 in the bench, dissented. Reservation structured singularly on economic...
ED claims discovery of more Young India toxic transactions
Fresh trouble seems to be on cards for Sonia and Rahul Gandhi as the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is said to have found “major suspicious transactions” in Congress-owned Young Indian in its probe in the National Herald case, sources in the central agency told News18. Transactions of around Rs 4-5 crore found...
Kharge takes swipe at PM over bridge collapse
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday wondered whether the ‘charm’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to the Morbi bridge collapse in Gujarat. Launching an attack on PM Modi on his maiden visit to Bengaluru after becoming the party president, the 80-year-old Congress veteran charged the Prime Minister with...
Telangana Cong loss may be watershed moment for party
Although the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) scooped a win in the Munugode by-election after a fierce neck-and-neck battle with the BJP, the real story from the bypoll was that of the Congress. In a state that was once a major source of its electoral strength, powering its two...
Cong says BJP’s HP poll manifesto a copy-paste job
The Congress hit out at the ruling BJP on Sunday over its Himachal Pradesh poll manifesto, terming it a “cut-copy-paste” of their five-year-old promises and in parts borrowed from the grand old party’s 2022 election document. BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday promised Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 33...
Tirupati temple richer than India’s biggest firms
Tirupati’s world famous Lord Venkateswara temple’s net worth of over Rs 2.5 lakh crore (about $30 billion) is more than the market capitalisation of IT services firm Wipro, food and beverage company Nestle and state-owned oil giants ONGC and IOC. Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, keeper of the temple dedicated to...
Rishi Sunak speaks of pride at being UK’s first Hindu PM
The UK’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister, who is also an observant Hindu, believes the landmark says something important about the state of diversity in Britain, according to an interview published on Saturday. The 42-year-old Sunak also revealed that he refused to step aside for ex-PM Boris Johnson in last...
