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High voting turnout reflects anti-incumbency : Congress on Goa polls
New Delhi: With Goa reporting a high voter turnout in Assembly elections held on Monday, the Congress party in the state exuded confidence in forming the government with a full majority. According…
- Hyderabad
BJP leaders flay KCR for demanding proof of surgical strikes
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has flayed Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s demand to the Centre to show proof of the surgical strikes carried out on Pakistan in 2016. BJP…
- Top Stories
Hijab row: Karnataka Congress MLAs wear black band during Governor’s address in protest
Bengaluru: Congress legislators in Karnataka wore black band on Monday during the Governor’s address to the joint sitting of the state legislature, in protest against the hijab row, accusing the BJP government’s…
- India
Why Anna Hazare is mum on liquor policy in BJP states: Maha women’s groups
Yavatmal: Hundreds of women’s Self Help Groups (SHG), activists and grassroots workers protested Maharashtra government’s move to permit wine sale in supermarkets and walk-in shops, and also questioned why social crusader Anna…
- India
Humiliating, says Owaisi as teachers, students in Karnataka forced to remove hijab
Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party of humiliating the Muslim community by depriving hijabi Muslims of their “fundamental rights” by preventing them from wearing hijabs as…
- India
TMC registers big win in Bengal’s 4 municipal corporations
Kolkata:The winning spree of Trinamool Congress continues in West Bengal as the party won four municipal corporations — Siliguri, Asansol, Bidhannagar and Chandannagar with a thumping majority reducing the opposition to the…
- India
SC investigates allegations into prevention of money laundering act
The Supreme Court is hearing back-to-back petitions filed by people from across the country, over allegations that an act introduced to prevent money laundering is being used as a weapon against rivals.…
- Telangana
Himanta Biswa Sarma slams KCR for seeking proof of surgical strikes
Guwahati: Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday slammed Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao for asking proof from the Central government over the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army…
- India
Hijab row: Udupi BJP MLA holds meeting with parents, political leaders
Udupi: BJP MLA Raghupathi Bhat on Sunday held a meeting with parents of school students and various political leaders at the Taluq office in Udupi, amid the ongoing hijab controversy in the state. Karnataka Police,…
- Telangana
All forces have to unite to shunt out BJP from this country: CM KCR
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday said that all the forces have to unite to shunt out BJP from this country or else society will be ruined. He called…
- India
Congress questions Modi govt over ABG Shipyard bank fraud case
Chandigarh: Dubbing it as the country’s biggest bank-fraud case, the Congress questioned the Narendra Modi government on Sunday why it took five years after the liquidation proceedings of ABG Shipyard to lodge…
- India
AAP has emerged from RSS, leaders owe their allegiance to BJP: Priyanka Gandhi
Kotkapura (Punjab): Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday said that Aam Aadmi Party has emerged from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as AAP leaders have been publicly saying that they owe allegiance to…
- India
BJP ‘jittery’; raking up Hijab row, UCC shows hold over electorate slipping: Salman Khurshid
By Asim Kamal New Delhi: Accusing the BJP of polarisation during assembly polls by raking up issues such as the Hijab row and the Uniform Civil Code, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid…
- India
Stage set for second phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls; 586 candidates in fray
Lucknow: Fifty-five seats spread across nine districts, including some in Rohilkhand region, will go to polls on Monday in the second phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh which will see senior Samajwadi…
- India
Mayawati hits out at BJP for its ‘refusal’ to acknowledge issue of unemployment
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati hit out at the ruling BJP on Sunday, saying its refusal to acknowledge the issue of unemployment in the country stems from its “arrogant thinking”.…