Politics

BJP's demand for a state government resolution honouring Savarkar for his contribution to the Independence struggle did not find support in both Houses of the Maharashtra Legislature on Wednesday.

Calling the violence a 'well planned conspiracy', Sonia Gandhi said the Delhi Police had remained paralysed in the last 72 hours.

In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Kapil Mishra said that he was being abused and issued 'death threats' and stressed that he did not commit any crime by supporting the amended citizenship law.

BJP's national general secretary Arun Singh told a press conference that Babulal Marandi, who merged his JVM-P with the BJP recently, was elected to the post by all the party MLAs.

Rawat’s remarks came at a time when other party leaders like Shashi Tharoor and Sandeep Dikshit have called for fresh elections to the Congress' top post, respecting Rahul Gandhi's decision to opt out.

The Aam Aadmi Party scored a landslide victory by winning a majority of 67 of the 70 seats in the 2020 Delhi assembly elections.

Of the seven BJP MPs from Delhi, at best two – Harsh Vardhan and Ramesh Bidhuri — can claim to have risen from the ranks of the organisation; the rest are all paratroopers.

India should recognise the strength of the public sector undertakings, the BJP MP said, while addressing the 18th edition of NALCO Lecture Series on 'Relevance of PSUs in Shaping New India'.

To begin with, reservation did not have any riders in terms of income and caste was the sole criterion. The concept of 'creamy layer' was introduced by the Supreme Court in 1993 through the judgement it delivered in the Indira Sawhney case.

Bhagwat on Thursday said the word "nationalism" can lend itself to different interpretations and could be equated with "Nazism and fascism" by some.

Waris Pathan had purportedly said 'we may be 15 crore, but are heavy on 100 crore' while addressing an anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) rally at Kalaburagi in North Karnataka on February 16.

The SFI, which is the student wing of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), retained all seats in the Arts faculty, after a close fight with the Democratic Students Association.

The Maharashtra cabinet, at its meeting on Wednesday, approved a proposal to take out Rs 10,000 crore from the fund for implementation of the loan waiver scheme for farmers.

The council suspended both the corporators — Anwar Dastak and Sadiq Khan — even as the BJP and Congress engaged in a heated argument.

The chief minister also said she had heard that Shrikant Mohta, co-founder of Venkatesh Films, was arrested in the Rose Valley scam.

Tamil Culture Minister K Pandiarajan said the AIADMK government, led by K Palaniswami, was committed to the welfare of Lankan Tamils and OCI status would help them do business and get job opportunities.