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BJP slams Cong vote bank politics for opposition to UCC
The BJP on Thursday slammed the Congress over its remark on the Law Commission seeking public opinion on a uniform civil code, saying it has succumbed to pressure from “fundamentalists” and is opposing the move for vote bank politics. The BJP is committed...
BJP, Cong copying Kejriwal’s ‘Delhi Model’, claims AAP
Aam Aadmi Party’s Madhya Pradesh unit president Rani Agarwal on Thursday said populist schemes being announced by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress ahead of state Assembly polls at the end of the year have been copied from Arvind Kejriwal’s “Del...
ED-arraigned minister has a highly controversial past
V Senthil Balaji, the minister of electricity and prohibition and excise in Tamil Nadu, has often been known as controversy’s child. His dramatic arrest by the Enforcement Directorate comes as part of an ongoing investigation into a job racket dating back...
Akhilesh says BJP sees most UP seats as falling in ‘red zone’
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday claimed that the BJP “conceding” most of its Lok Sabha seats in UP being in the “red zone” was an effect of the power of “red” – a colour his party identifies with. The SP chief made the remark in a tweet...
Central move jeopardises Siddaramaiah’s grains scheme
Even though an election slugfest between the Congress and BJP is over in Karnataka, but a power tussle is still on over the implementation of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s ambitious project ‘Anna Bhagya’. Under this scheme, 10 kg of food grains will be gi...
South Africa May Not Host BRICS Summit Scheduled For August This Year
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav South Africa may not host the BRICS summit this year, and it is reportedly willing to pass the opportunity to China. As a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), South Africa would be legally obligated to arrest Russian...
Rift In Congress-Left Alliance Before Rural Polls In West Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Fissures have appeared in Congress-Left Front alliance less than a month before panchayat elections are scheduled in West Bengal. CPI(M) has unilaterally declared candidates in Murshidabad, of all places, an area known to be the strong...
Cong attacks govt failure to stop ‘predatory behaviour’ by airlines
The Congress on Sunday stepped up its attack on the Centre over rising airfares, alleging that the government has been incapable of preventing “predatory behaviour” on part of airlines and has “facilitated a loot at the hands of crony airport operators”....
Brij Bhushan dares public conscience with plan to contest
Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Sunday announced that he would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Kaiserganj seat in Uttar Pradesh. Singh, a six-time Member of Parliament who has been accuse...
SP slogan calls for win in 80 seats and defeat for BJP
“Assi harao, BJP hatao (defeat BJP on all 80 UP Lok Sabha seats and oust it)” is the new Samajwadi Party slogan for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Samajwadi Party (SP) national president Akhilesh Yadav has said that if the BJP was to be removed from the se...
Amit Shah springs a surprise with pitch for Tamilian as PM
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that a Tamil from a poor family should become the Prime Minister of India, party sources said. Amit Shah, who is on a two-day visit to Tamil Nadu against backdrop of 2024 Lok Sabha election, was addressing a cl...
Ajit Pawar says not unhappy with Praful, Sule appointments
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Saturday named his daughter Supriya Sule and senior leader Praful Patel as new working presidents of the party. However, Pawar’s decision to not give any important responsibility to nephew Ajit Pa...
Opposition slams Giriraj Singh’s endorsement of Godse
Union Minister Giriraj Singh stoked a controversy by calling Mahatma Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse a “good son of India” and said he was not an invader like Mughal rulers Babar and Aurangzeb as he was born in India. The Opposition shot back saying if God...
Karnataka BJP continues to remain a divided house
Even after the drubbing in the Assembly elections and losing its base in entire south India ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2024, the Karnataka BJP unit still remains a divided house. The party leadership is struggling to foster unity and the spirit of fi...
Priyanka to kick-start MP poll campaign with Jabalpur rally
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will kick off the Congress’s campaign for the year-end Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls from Jabalpur on Monday after praying at the banks of the Narmada river, a party leader said. Jabalpur is at the centre of the state’s Mahakoshal re...