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- India
Bengal BJP starts organisational streamlining, nominates 15 cell conveners
Kolkata: Eyeing the West Bengal panchayat polls next year and Lok Sabha polls in 2024, the BJP’s state unit has started streamlining its organisational network by announcing the names of conveners of…
- India
Inappropriate for sensitive govt to strike first, think later: Varun Gandhi on Agnipath
New Delhi: BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at the Centre over the Agnipath scheme, saying it is not appropriate for a sensitive government to “strike first and think…
- Telangana
Secunderabad vandalism plan hatched at Telangana CMO: Bandi Sanjay
Hyderabad: Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Saturday alleged that the violence and vandalism witnessed at the Secunderabad railway station on Friday as part of a deep-rooted conspiracy…
- Bangalore
Siddaramaiah urges PM to drop Agnipath military recruitment scheme
Bengaluru: Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Friday urged the BJP-ruled Centre to drop the Agnipath scheme of recruiting military personnel as ‘Agniveers’ for a term of four years in the wake…
- Middle East
Haj 2022: Saudi hires company linked to BJP to process applications
Riyadh: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reportedly hired a company that has close links with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), to facilitate and process Haj applications.…
- India
Explainer: What is Agnipath about and why are there protests?
On June 13, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government announced the Agnipath Scheme. The Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated it along with the chiefs of all three defence forces –…
- India
Agnipath agitators target properties of BJP leaders, Railways in Bihar
Patna: Protests against Agnipath scheme intensified in Bihar’s several districts on Friday with the agitators damaging the Railways properties and targeting the BJP leaders in West Champaran district. The agitators attacked BJP…
- India
BJP allies in Bihar demand withdrawal of Agnipath scheme
Patna: After Bihar Minister Bijendra Prasad Yadav, another JD-U leader and the party’s parliamentary board president Upendra Kushwaha on Thursday questioned the new recruitment policy of the Centre, ‘Agnipath’. He said that…
- India
Call in central forces if stir over Prophet remark gets out of control: Calcutta HC to Bengal govt
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the West Bengal government to take all possible steps to ensure that no violence takes place during any protest over the controversial remarks made…
- India
Naveen Jindal gets fresh death threats over ‘controversial’ remarks
New Delhi: Former BJP leader Naveen Jindal has lodged a fresh complaint with the Delhi Police against unknown persons for threatening him over his controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad through emails. Jindal…
- Hyderabad
Prophet remarks: Hyderabad police on its toes to ensure peace
Hyderabad: The controversy that arose over the remarks of now suspended Bhartiya Janata Party leaders Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal is robbing officials of the Hyderabad city police of their peace.…