The announcement by South Mumbai Shiv Sena area chief Pandurang Sakpal to hold an azan singing competition on the lines of the Gita singing competition has led to a dispute with the BJP claiming that the party is trying to appease the Muslims. Attacking the Seine, his longtime ally, the …
Read More »
Eager to break the deadlock with farmers who are campaigning to remove new farm laws, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership held meetings for the second day in a row on Monday and sent the message that the Union government is ready to the conversations. Union Interior Minister Amit Shah …
Read More »
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi responded to a shocking comment from a Karnataka minister (file) Hyderabad: A day after a Karnataka minister said that the BJP would “definitely not give tickets (to contest the elections) to Muslims,” AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi responded, calling the comment “disgusting and shameful, but not surprising”. …
Read More »
Proposal for a law aimed at empowering women, not aimed at ‘loving jihad’: Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma (archive) Guwahati: Assam is planning a law that will require the bride and groom to declare their religion and income on official documents one month before the wedding. In the context of …
Read More »
Hanuman Beniwal’s Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, which partnered with the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 on Monday, told Interior Minister Amit Shah that his party would reconsider its association with the BJP if the Center did not withdraw all three agricultural laws. Beniwal also demanded that the Center implement the Swaminath …
Read More »
Politically speaking, West Bengal contains multiple Bengals in itself. But the only Bengal within West Bengal that I am going to write about here is originally Hindi-speaking. This Hindi-speaking West Bengal arose through immigrants from northern India. Migration from North India to Bengal started a long time ago. During colonial …
Read More »
The Directorate of Enforcement and the Central Bureau of Investigations should be sent to the borders to combat terrorists and infiltration at the borders, Maharashtra ruler Shiv Sena said in his latest attack on the BJP. Criticizing the use of water cannons against protesting farmers near Delhi in this cold …
Read More »
Congressional leader Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday urged people to join the “Speak Up for Farmers” campaign, amid protests by farmers against the central government’s new agricultural laws. “The Modi government tortured farmers, first they introduced laws for blacks and then they used force / farmers accused …
Read More »
Hyderabad’s municipal elections are the new testing ground for communal rhetoric in a secular city, overshadowing voter concerns and development debates. National affairs, Article 370, Ayodhya and Pulwama have overshadowed the people’s demands for better roads, sanitation and health. More than 40% of Hyderabad voters, in a recent study, said …
Read More »
Shiv Sena on Monday criticized the BJP-led regime’s treatment of protesting farmers, adding that it was cruel to use water cannons amid a cold snap hitting parts of northern India. Farmers have been protesting on the Delhi borders for five days against the new farm laws and have said they …
Read More »