Dalit identity politics is taking center stage in Bihar and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) appears to be the battleground for deciding which party dominates the community, considered a formidable vote bank in the state. The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) ran a full-page ad on Friday, with a stinging slogan: …
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A few months before the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections, BJP leader and Union minister RK Singh claimed on Friday that the saffron party is capable of forming a government of its own in the state, adding that without However, his party does not want to break its association with Janata …
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It only took one tweet to bring Mumbaikars together. Even people arguing about how their city is plagued with problems in another way, joined on Twitter to criticize Bollywood Actress Kangana Ranaut after comparing the city with Pakistani-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Accusing the Shiv Sena leader and MP Sanjay Raut of …
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Facebook is ‘non-partisan’ and strives to ensure that its platforms remain a space where people freely express themselves, Facebook said in its response to the letter from the (organization) secretary general of Congress, KC Venugopal, accusing the platform of social networks of ‘interfering in the electoral democracy of India’. “We …
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File photo of BJP MLA T Raja Singh. The statement says the process for evaluating potential violators is extensive and is what led to Facebook’s decision to delete Singh’s account. News18.com New Delhi Last update: September 3, 2020 12:03 PM IST FOLLOW US: Facebook, under pressure for weeks for its …
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Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Thursday that the government’s hidden agenda behind the demonetization was deliberately harming India’s informal sector, which survives on liquid cash. In his latest video series on the Indian economy, Gandhi called the 2016 demonetization an “attack on India’s poor, farmers, workers and small merchants.” …
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Facebook has received similar letters recently from Congress and the BJP. New Delhi: Facebook has received the third letter in two weeks accusing it of political bias. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Trinamool Congress said that the accounts and posts were blocked by the social media giant …
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NEW DELHI: In the midst of a raging controversy over political bias and interference in Facebook At the urging of its top Indian officials, the government on Tuesday wrote a strong letter to the founder of the social media giant. Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company’s employees of “officially abusing” Prime …
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The Indian economy was in one of its worst slowdown phases even before the Covid-19 pandemic. GDP growth fell continuously for eight quarters (except for a flash of 0.08 percentage points between December 2018 and March 2019. It was 8.2% in March 2018 and had fallen to only 3.1 % …
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A police team arrived at the scene but Surya (pictured) escaped in a car. Surya, who has several cases filed against him, was ready to join the party in the presence of the Tamil Nadu party chief, L Murugan, but fled when he noticed that there were police officers on …
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