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Modi lauds Yogi govt’s ‘bulldozer drive’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a brainstorming session with Uttar Pradesh’s Yogi Adityanath cabinet in Lucknow on Monday evening. During his meeting with UP ministers, the PM said that only good governance opens the way to power. With this, he asked all the ministers of the state to further...
PM’s Nepal visit to help BJP sharpen Buddhism focus
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to fly to Nepal on Buddh Purnima today to pay a visit to Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha in Nepal, nearly seven months after inaugurating the Kushinagar airport in October last year. According to reports, the PM will land at the newly...
Delhiites told to stay home as temperature hits 49 degrees
An intense heatwave scorched parts of north India on Sunday with places in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh recording 49 degrees Celsius and above while the weather office has warned of heavy rainfall across Kerala and sounded a red alert for five districts. In Delhi, the Safdarjung observatory recorded 45.6...
Kejriwal announces alliance with Kerala experimental party
Seeking to spread its wings in the southern State of Kerala, New Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced his party’s political alliance with Twenty20, a political party, promoted by a business group here, and targeted the mainstream political parties in the...
BJP accuses Malda cop of bullying Hindus into conversion
West Bengal’s Malda district has become the latest site of a political tussle between the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress, this time over the issue of “forced conversion“. BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar on Monday tweeted some photographs of people protesting with the allegation that the inspector incharge...
Fadnavis likens MVA govt to Babri-like structure
Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis yesterday compared the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government to a Babri-like structure and said he would not rest till he brings it down. “I will not rest till I bring down the Babri-like structure of your power,” Mr Fadnavis said. He chanted Hanuman...
Rahul acknowledges party ties with people strained
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announced on Sunday that the party will undertake a yatra in October to re-establish and strengthen its connection with the people. While acknowledging that Congress’ connection with people has been broken, he also laid emphasis on the “one family, one ticket” rule to ensure that...
Rahul to embark on Kashmir to Kanyakumari padyatra
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is likely to embark on padyatra (foot march) from Kashmir to Kanyakumari to connect with the masses. The yatra was part of discussion during the ‘chintan shivir’ of the party. It is likely to commence later this year in run-up for the general elections,...
BJP’s change-CM formula evolved from Jharkhand CM defeat
After successfully testing the strategy of going with a new chief ministerial face for state assembly elections, the BJP once again applied it to Tripura. On Saturday, the saffron party’s first-ever CM in the state, Biplab Deb stepped down from the post to make way for Dr Manik Saha....
10 killed in ‘racially motivated’ shooting at US store
A heavily armed 18-year-old white gunman shot 10 people dead on Saturday at a Buffalo, New York grocery store in a “racially motivated” attack that he live-streamed on camera, authorities said. The gunman, who was wearing a helmet and tactical gear, was arrested after the massacre, Buffalo Police Commissioner...
Fake Hindutva party misleading nation, says Uddhav Thackeray
There is “a fake Hindutva party” misleading the nation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Saturday in a counter attack on the BJP that questioned the party’s Hindutva credentials. “There is fake Hindutva party that’s misleading the nation. Devendra Fadnavis (Maharashtra ex chief minister) was speaking about their...
Shah says he has never seen a govt worse than KCR’s
As next year’s poll battle for Telangana heats up, Congress, BJP, and the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) have already started training guns on each other. In the latest attack on Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah taunted him saying he doesn’t...
Punjab Cong ex-chief quits party after disciplinary notice
Sunil Jakhar, senior Congress leader and former chief of its Punjab unit, quit the party today, weeks after he was issued a showcause notice by the leadership over his criticism of former Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. “Goodbye and good luck, Congress,” Jakhar said in a Facebook live video...
Yogi says all faiths lead to same destination
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Friday said all religions lead to the same destination, and urged everyone to follow the path of ‘dharma’. During his two-day visit to Varanasi, he attended the Pattabhishek program of Dr. Mallikarjuna Shivacharya Swami as the 87th Jagadguru of Shri Kashi Peeth in...
Wheat export banned with immediate effect
India has put a ban on the export of wheat with immediate effect, the ministry of commerce said in a notification in a late Friday night notification. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGDT) in the notification dated May 13 has said that the wheat export ban was...
Azam Khan proves a hard nut to crack for Yogi govt
The 10-time Samajwadi Party MLA and former MP from Rampur, Mohammad Azam Khan, has got bail in almost 88 cases that were lodged against him. He has been in jail for over two years now. But all of a sudden the issue of Azam Khan is emerging as a...
Delhi inferno building owners arrested
At least 27 people died and 12 were injured after a fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building in west Delhi’s Mundka on Friday evening, police said. Police are yet to share details about the identity of the victims. The injured have been admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi...
DK Shivakumar, MB Patil call ‘truce’ at Chintan Shivir
Even though Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar and the party’s campaign committee chief M B Patil seemed to have called for a truce after the former’s statement raised heckles, there seems to be no end to the public spat between their supporters. Shivakumar’s recent statement suggesting that Higher...
