Political

13 Nov

Karnataka will soon make law on religious conversions

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Coming under pressure from Hindu outfits and religious pontiffs, the Karnataka government is all set to make a law on religious conversions soon. Sri Ram Sena has warned that it would launch a statewide agitation if the ruling BJP government in Karnataka doesn't enact a law to ban forceful conversions. Sources in the BJP confirmed that the government is all set to make a law in this regard and the bill will be suggested in the coming winter session scheduled to be held in Suvarna Soudha at Belagavi next month. Various mutts have appealed to the state government for implementing…

11 Nov

Jairam Ramesh submits privilege notice on appointment of former BJP MP as NMA chairperson

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The Congress has sought to move a privilege motion over Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tarun Vijay’s appointment as the National Monuments Authority (NMA) chairman, saying the appointee does not meet the criteria laid down under a law passed by the Parliament for the post. Congress’s chief whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh wrote a letter on Thursday to Venkaiah Naidu, the chairman of Parliament’s Upper House, for the privilege motion. He pointed out that Vijay, a former editor of the weekly Panchajanya of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the BJP’s ideological fountainhead, is ineligible for the post. Ramesh said the appointment…

11 Nov

Tollywood actress Srabanti Chatterjee quits BJP

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Tollywood actress Srabanti Chatterjee has announced her exit from the BJP. She in a tweet said that she is severing all ties with the BJP as she cited the party's 'lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of Bengal' as the reason for her resignation. Srabanti had joined the saffron party just before the Assembly polls earlier this year. "Severing all ties with the BJP, the party for which I fought the last state elections. The reason being their lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of Bengal..." she tweeted. Severing all ties with the BJP,…

08 Nov

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra criticizes demonetisation as ‘disaster’

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On the fifth anniversary of demonetisation, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra termed it a "disaster" and asked if the step has been successful, why hasn't corruption ended and black money returned to the country. On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on national television his government's decision to ban all currency notes of higher denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 from midnight on the same day. "If 'notebandi was successful, why hasn't corruption ended? Why hasn't black money come back? Why hasn't the economy gone cashless? Why hasn't terrorism been hit? Why hasn't price rise been reined…

05 Nov

Bengal Minister Subrata Mukherjee dies at 75

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Senior Trinamool Congress minister Subrata Mukherjee died at SSKM hospital on Thursday evening after suffering a stent thrombosis days after undergoing an angioplasty. He was 75. Mukherjee was shifted to the ICU around 8.15pm when his condition suddenly deteriorated. CM Mamata Banerjee, who rushed to the hospital along with her cabinet colleagues, stepped out to say, “I had never thought such darkness would descend when we celebrate the festival of lights. I can’t even come to terms with this loss. He suffered a massive cardiac arrest. The doctors, his wife, his well-wishers, tried all they could have done. But we…

03 Nov

Pakistan refuses airspace for Srinagar-Sharjah flights

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The Pakistan government on Wednesday said that the airspace will not be allowed for flights from Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar to Sharjah. Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, "Pakistan did the same thing with the Air India Express flight from Srinagar to Dubai in 2009-2010. I had hoped that Go First being permitted to overfly Pak airspace was indicative of a thaw in relations, but alas, that wasn't to be." On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special VVIP flight, en route to Italy for the G20 Summit, flew over the Pakistani airspace and the aircraft will use…

28 Oct

BJP won’t go anywhere for next many decades, says Prashant Kishor; takes swipe at Rahul Gandhi

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In a big dampener for Congress, poll strategist Prashant Kishor predicted that BJP will remain a dominant force in Indian politics for the next many decades. Speaking at an event in the Museum of Goa, he disagreed with the opposition's claim that the Narendra Modi-led government will be voted out of power in 2024 merely due to anti-incumbency. To buttress his point, he highlighted the difference in people's approach towards the rise in fuel prices as compared to the UPA government era. According to him, it was difficult to envisage the saffron party fading away easily as it had crossed…

24 Oct

Lakhimpur Kheri violence: Main accused Ashish Mishra shifted to govt hospital due to suspected dengue

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Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra, who is currently in jail in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, has contracted dengue, a senior police official said on Sunday. "Ashish Mishra is being shifted to district hospital. He has tested positive for dengue. Also, he has diabetes," said Shailendra Bhatnagar, CMO, Lakhimpur Kheri. Four farmers and a journalist were run over on October 3 by a convoy of three vehicles, one of which belongs to Union Minister of state for home, Ajay Mishra. The minister's son was arrested on October 9, five days after he was named in the…

22 Oct

‘Blatant criminal attack’: TMC’s Sushmita Dev slams Tripura’s Biplab govt as car attacked

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All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sushmita Dev's vehicle was allegedly vandalised as she and her party workers were reportedly assaulted in Tripura while campaigning for the 2023 elections on Friday. Along with MPO Sushmita Dev, a member of the TMC's political consultancy agency I-PAC was also brutally attacked, the TMC leader alleged. TMC MP Sushmita Dev, who is spearheading the party's campaign for 2023 assembly polls, had launched the campaign called ' Tripurar Jonno Trinamool' and was travelling around the state campaigning in her car along with other members. The party and TMC MP alleged that the attack was…

21 Oct

Smartphone for inter pass girls, scooty for graduate girls if Cong forms govt in UP: Priyanka Gandhi

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After promising 40 per cent tickets to women in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra announced on Thursday that all class 12 pass girls will be given a smartphone while all graduate girls will get an electronic scooty if her party forms a government in the state. "Yesterday I met some girl students. They said that they need smartphones for their studies and their security. I am happy that today the UP Congress has decided , with the consent of the manifesto committee, that it will provide smartphones to inter pass girls and electronic…