Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee blocked governor Jagdeep Dhankhar from her Twitter account on Monday, a day after he said the state had become “a gas chamber for democracy”, in signs that ties between the two leaders neared a point of no return following years of acrimony....
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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court transferred the Thanjavur student suicide case to the CBI on Monday, January 31. The order comes the same day that the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) team is visiting Thanjavur to conduct an inquiry into the matter. On January 19, a...
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Kanpur: At least five people have been killed and several injured after an electric bus lost control and mowed down several bystanders near the Tat Mill crossroad in Kanpur on Sunday, informed local police. Three cars and many bikes have been destroyed by the bus in the accident. The driver of...
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Guwahati: BJP supporters burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh and shouted slogans as protests erupted on Sunday after the party named candidates for next month’s elections, leaving many disappointed. Party offices were ransacked in various parts of the state and protesters...
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jalandhar (Punjab): Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that a law should be made against religious conversions but nobody should be wrongly harassed. Stating that religion is a private matter, Mr Kejriwal while addressing a public gathering in Jalandhar said, “A law should definitely be...
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Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is campaigning today in Western Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar. This comes a day after Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav along with his Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) ally Jayant Chaudhary launched a sharp attack against the BJP here. Mr Yadav had dismissed the...
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With a strong Yadav population, Karhal has for three decades been an SP fortress. And while the BJP is yet to announce its candidate to take on Akhilesh, local party leaders told News18 that he shouldn’t assume a runaway win.
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Former Karnataka chief minister and BJP stalwart BS Yediyurappa’s granddaughter has allegedly died by suicide. Soundarya, in her early 30s, was a doctor at MS Ramaiah hospital in Bengaluru. According to the police, she was living with her husband, a fellow doctor, and a six-month-old child at an upscale...
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Lucknow: The BJP’s focus today in the Uttar Pradesh campaign is Mathura, one of the three key temple towns after Ayodhya and Varanasi. Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are covering western UP today, which has over 100 assembly seats and will...
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In another setback to the Congress ahead of the assembly elections, former chief of the Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee Kishore Upadhyay may join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday, said sources The Congress on Wednesday had dismissed Kishore Upadhyay from its primary membership for six years, accusing him of...
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