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Rahul doubts PM's "Kerala dear to me" remark

Thiruvambady/Mukkam: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Sunday accused the Centre under Prime Minister Narendra Modi of according step-motherly treatment to the states not ruled by the BJP, which he dubbed as a party “blinded by hate and anger”. The Congress president made the allegations, doubting Modi’s remarks on Saturday that Kerala from where the BJP won […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Some people yet to get over polls' impact, says Modi

Tirupati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that some people were yet to get over the impact of the Lok Sabha poll results. Addressing a meeting of BJP workers at Renigunta Airport near this temple town, he said the election chapter was over for the BJP and it had now started focussing on serving […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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BJP stopped from taking workers' bodies to Kolkata

Kolkata: An altercation broke out between the police and a group of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Sunday when they were stopped from taking bodies of slain party workers to Kolkata. On Saturday, three people were killed in a clash between the Trinamool and BJP workers in […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Virendra Kumar takes oath as Pro tem Speaker

New Delhi:  Former Union Minister and seven-time MP Virendra Kumar on Monday took oath as the Pro tem Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha. President Ram Nath Kovind administered the oath to Virendra Kumar at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. In the first term of the Modi government, the 65-year-old senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader was Minister of […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Over to Amit Shah as Odisha BJP fails to take decision on LoP

Bhubaneswar: The selection of Leader of Opposition in the 16th Odisha Assembly still continues to hang in balance as the State unit of BJP has now left the final call on the national party president Amit Shah. The development comes after a meeting of the BJP legislature party failed to take a consensual decision in […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Pradhan hits back at Congress' secret pact charge; calls it an open MoU

Bhubaneswar: Junking the Congress charge of having a secret pact between BJP – BJD over Rajya Sabha bypoll, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today categorically stated that there is no such  hush-hush deal, rather he termed it as an open understanding between the two parties. “PM Modi had spoken to CM Naveen and asked support […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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TMC leader shot dead in Bengal, 24-hour bandh called

Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress leader was shot dead at a railway station in West Bengal’s Hoogly district on Saturday morning, police said. Dilip Ram, a local Trinamool leader and the husband of a Trinamool Gram Panchayat Pradhan in the district, was allegedly shot in the head while he was waiting to catch a local train […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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National Herald case: Swamy's cross-examination deferred

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday deferred till August 30 the cross-examination of Subramanian Swamy in connection with the National Herald case. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal posted the matter for August 30 after Swamy sought an adjournment in the case. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader informed the court that the party […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
BJP sets target to enrol 50 lakh members in Odisha

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set a target to enrol 50 lakh members as it launched its membership drive on Saturday. Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the state-level BJP membership drive in Ekamra Assembly constituency in Bhubaneswar. “In Odisha, we have launched the membership drive from Ekamra Assembly constituency. […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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Ex-Gujarat BJP MP gets life sentence in murder case

Ahmedabad: A Special CBI Court here on Thursday sentenced former BJP MP Dinu Bogha Solanki from Gujarat’s Saurashtra and six others to life imprisonment for the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa in July 2010. The court had pronounced them guilty on July 6 and reserved the order on the quantum of punishment. The other convicts […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Modi mentors BJP's women MPs

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave tips to the women MPs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on meaningful participation in legislative business and advised them how they can contribute in the policy making process. “He met us in groups. One group comprised women MPs below 45 years. The other consisted of […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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BJP expels Champion for 6 years over pistol dance

Dehradun: Uttarakhand Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion, suspended from the party for an indefinite period, was on Wednesday expelled from the party for six years, days after a video went viral showing him dancing with two pistols and a carbine, which raised safety and security concerns. The BJP disciplinary committee in New […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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UP BJP MLA enrols schools students as party members

Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh): Making a mockery of the BJP’s much-publicized membership drive, Sushil Singh, party MLA from this seat in Uttar Pradesh enrolled school students as party members. Sushil Singh, nephew of mafia don-turned-politician Brijesh Singh on Wednesday asked the students to fill in membership forms and made them wear saffron ‘angavastram’ with the BJP’s […]

  • Wednesday, 28 April 2021
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Delhi Speaker disqualifies 2 more rebel AAP MLAs

New Delhi:  Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Thursday disqualified two Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs – Anil Kumar Bajpai and Col. Devinder Sehrawat – from the House on grounds of defection. The Speaker took the decision on a petition received from AAP spokesperson and MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj, a statement from the Assembly read. […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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Include Puri, Konark in iconic tourist list: Odisha BJP MPs

Bhubaneswar: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs from Odisha have requested Union Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel to include the Jagannath temple in Puri and Sun Temple in Konark in the list of India’s Iconic Tourist Sites. In a letter to the Union Minister, released to media on Friday, the MPs have sought his personal […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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