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Modi to attend Goa Liberation Day event
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Goa on Sunday to attend Goa Liberation Day celebrations at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium in Goa’s Taleigao at around 3 pm, informed the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). As per the PMO, the Prime Minister will felicitate the freedom fighters and...
RJD to launch protest against Bihar unemployment
Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav on Saturday hit out at the Nitish Kumar government for the “top to bottom” corruption in Bihar and said that the party will soon launch a state wide protest against growing unemployment. The leader of the opposition said RJD will also organize a...
Farmer leader Chaduni launches party to contest Punjab polls
Chandigarh: Farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni on Saturday floated his political party to contest the Punjab Assembly polls next year and batted for opium farming in the state. The farmer leader told reporters in Chandigarh that their aim is to “purify” politics and bring good people forward. Chaduni was...
Now, Akhilesh Yadav aide targeted in tax raids
In a nauseating repetition of unleashing central agencies on adversaries, Income Tax searches were carried out this morning at the home of Samajwadi Party leader and spokesperson Rajeev Rai, who is also an aide of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Another Samajwadi Party leader has been raided...
More namaz protests in Gurgaon amidst tension
Gurgaon: Muslims in Haryana’s Gurgaon faced yet more protests from right-wing groups today while trying to offer namaz. Interruption of namaz in open spaces, particularly on government-owned land, has taken place every week for the past few months in the city, which is part of the national capital region. This...
Rahul, Priyanka padyatra in Amethi against inflation
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is leading a footmarch in his former Lok Sabha constitutency of Amethi today against e rising inflation and government policies. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, his sister and the party’s UP in-charge, is part of this padyatra. The six-km foot march comes just a week after the...
Samajwadi MP’s shocker on marriage age
New Delhi: A day after the union cabinet approved the proposal to increase the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, two Samajwadi Party leaders have come under criticism for expressing regressive views while opposing the move. While one linked marriage with fertility in women,...
Omicron spreading very fast worldwide, 101 cases In India
New Delhi: The Omicron variant of the coronavirus is “spreading rapidly” – there are now 101 cases in 11 states in India – the Health Ministry said Friday, warning that 19 districts were at high risk of a surge in COVID-19 cases. Faced with the threat of a...
Amarinder announces alliance With BJP
Amarinder Singh today announced an alliance with the BJP for the Punjab election, a move that had been anticipated ever since he quit the Congress last month. The former Punjab Chief Minister made the announcement after meeting with the BJP leadership in Delhi. He also tweeted photos hugging...
Shah says Modi has given a corruption-free Govt
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a corruption-free government in the last seven years and no one can question its intention when a decision is taken, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday. Addressing the annual general meeting of FICCI, Shah also said one of the greatest achievements...
Karnataka ex-speaker faces backlash over rape remark
Former Karnataka speaker and senior Congress MLA KR Ramesh Kumar on Friday apologised for his controversial “when rape is inevitable, lie down and enjoy” remark that sparked a row in Karnataka on Thursday. Taking to Twitter, Kumar wrote, “I would like to express my sincere apologies to everyone for...
Siddaramiah vows to block anti-conversion bill in assembly
Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday accused the ruling BJP in Karnataka of trying to divert the attention of the people from real issues by bringing in emotive ones like “Love Jihad, Anti Conversion” with an aim to implementing its “hidden agenda”. Expressing confidence about the Congress coming to...
New prohibition of child marriage amendment bill on Dec 20
The government is likely to introduce the prohibition of child marriage amendment bill unifying the age of marriage of different communities to ensure a uniform marriage age on December 20. A s of now, the legal age of women to get married is 18 while that for men is...
Modi’s breakfast meet with 40 UP MPs to focus on poll
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet BJP MPs from Uttar Pradesh over breakfast today. The meeting, which will be attended by nearly 40 party leaders, comes months ahead of assembly polls in the state. During the Winter Session of Parliament, the PM has been regularly holding breakfast meetings with...
Pro-RSS mag says BJP, Mamata share ‘Cong-mukt Bharat’ dream
An article in an RSS-linked Bengali magazine has stirred up a hornet’s nest by claiming that both BJP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee share the dream of “Congress-mukt Bharat” (Congress-free India). While the BJP distanced itself from the article in ‘Swastika’ calling it “baseless” and far from...
Priyanka questions Indira’s omission in Vijay Diwas celebrations
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday alleged that former prime minister Indira Gandhi was being “left out” of the “misogynist” BJP government’s Vijay Diwas celebrations and said it is about time Prime Minister Narendra Modi starts giving women their due. Vijay Diwas commemorates India’s victory over Pakistan in...
Akhilesh meets uncle to end feud, seals alliance
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday met his uncle and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) chief Shivpal Yadav at the latter’s residence in Lucknow and finally announced an alliance ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls – thus ending the five-year-old differences in the family. The SP chief...
BJP, TMC fight on Durga Puja heritage status credit
While both BJP and Trinamool Congress lauded Kolkata’s Durga Puja festival receiving the UNESCO heritage tag, the two parties took potshots at each other over claiming the credit for the feat. TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee tweeted, “Two minutes of silence for @AmitShah and all the tall leaders...
