Attacks on Hindu temples taking place with govt's indifference: BJP

Vijayawada/UNI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Kanna Lakshminarayana deplored that idols of Hindu gods were destroyed and a chariot of a temple was burnt in the State during the last few days but the government is saying that some mentally retarded persons carried out the attacks.

Former Tripura Chief Secy arrested in PWD scam; state administrative officers say he is framed

Agartala/UNI: Former chief secretary of Tripura and chairman of Tripura Public Service Commission (TPSC) Yash Pal Singh was arrested Monday morning in a joint operation of Uttar Pradesh and Tripura police from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh in connection with alleged PWD scam of Rs 164 Cr during 2008-09.

BSP chief Mayawati lashes out at BJP over reservation woes

Lucknow/UNI: Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday criticised the BJP-led dispensation over Supreme Court's recent verdict on reservation.

CAA will not be withdrawn at any cost: PM Modi in Varanasi

Chandauli/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Citizenship Amendment Act was necessary for the country and it would not be withdrawn at any cost.

Contributing in making of 'New India' is every citizen's duty: Modi

Varanasi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said it the duty of every citizen to contribute to the making of a new India.

Shaheen Bagh protesters begin march towards Home Minister's house to discuss CAA

New Delhi/IBNS: Hundreds of women who have been sitting on dharna at Shaheen Bagh protest site since the last two months have begin their march towards Home Minister Amit Sha's house to discuss the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

West Bengal BJP to felicitate Amit Shah on March 1 for passing CAA: Dilip Ghosh

Kolkata/UNI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to be in the city on March 1 as the BJP has decided to felicitate him in a grand manner for passing the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA), according to state BJP president Dilip Ghosh.

Major Rejig: BJP appoints state presidents of MP, Kerala , Sikkim

New Delhi/UNI: in a major rejig, BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday appointed Vishnu Dutt Sharma as state party president of Madhya Pradesh and K Surendran as state president of Kerala BJP.

BJP-IPFT government under attack after poverty-stricken tribal man's photo goes viral

Agartala/UNI: The opposition has come down heavily on the BJP-IPFT government after the photograph showing an old tribal man crying in public after he failed to meet the chief minister in a public meeting at Kalayanpur of Khowai district in West Tripura on Feb 12 last went viral in social media.

Hate speeches 'like Goli Maaro' shouldn't have been made: Amit Shah on Delhi polls defeat

New Delhi/IBNS: Union Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Thursday admitted that his assessment over the Delhi elections went wrong and also said certain hate speeches by his party members should not have been made.

Congress welcomes SC order to de-criminalise politics, trains guns at BJP

New Delhi/UNI: While welcoming the Supreme Court’s decision to ‘de-criminalise’ Indian politics, the Congress on Thursday trained guns at the BJP and alleged that the saffron party has become a shelter or rather a comfort home for people with criminal antecedents.

Rahul Gandhi takes dig at BJP over rise in price of LPG cylinders

New Delhi/IBNS: Sharing an old image of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Smriti Irani, Rahul Sinha and others, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a dig at the Narendra Modi government over the rise in price of LPG cylinders.

UP Assembly: Opposition attacks govt on the issues of CAA, NRC, agri-crisis, unemployment

Lucknow/UNI: The joint session of the Uttar Pradesh legislature was marred by noisy scenes on the opening day of the Budget session here on Thursday as the opposition members protested against 'deteriorating' law and order, 'rising' farmer's plight and unemployment, newly amended citizenship law and nationwide-wide NRC exercise.

Union minister Giriraj Singh calls Deoband 'Antankwaad Ki Gangotri'

New Delhi/IBNS: BJP leader and Union minister Giriraj Singh on Wednesday issued a provocative statement with his "Antankwaad Ki Gangotri" (Spring of Terrorism) for Islamic Seminary Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, said reports.

Mukul Roy gets a breather in cheating and criminal defamation case

Kolkata/UNI: BJP leader Mukul today  got a breather from a single-judge bench of Calcutta High Court  in a case of cheating and criminal defamation in which he had been named as a co-accused.