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NEW DELHI: Election Strategist Prashant Kishor, who has ruffled many feathers at the Mamata Trinamool Congress, unleashed a new round of confrontation with the BJP on Monday. Kishor, who is Mamata’s key aide in West Bengal, who is at the polls, has claimed that he would leave the Twitter space …

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on Monday alleged that the mass contact initiative to raise funds from the public for the Ram temple construction in Ayodhya it is akin to “campaigning” for the 2024 general election on behalf of Lord Ram. The BJP, however, dismissed the charge, saying it is not …

KOLKATA: In the midst of the increasingly intense struggle between the BJP and the TMC in west bengal before the assembly elections, NCP supreme Sharad Pawar has joined several other opposition leaders in siding with the prime minister Mamata banerjee in his battle against the saffron field and the Center. …

NEW DELHI: India’s leopard population increased to 12,852 in 2018 from around 8,000 in 2014, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday. The minister was publishing the ‘State of Leopards in India Report 2018 ‘. The minister stated that the increase in leopard numbers, followed by similar reports on tigers …

NEW DELHI: Russia Monday said the implementation of its current defending deals with India, including supplying a batch of S-400 missile systems are progressing well despite the threat of US sanctions. Russian Ambassador Nikolay Kudashev, in a press conference, appeared to criticize the US sanctions on Turkey for acquiring the …

CALCUTTA: Sujata Mondal Khan, wife of BJP MP Saumitra khan, joined TMC on Monday, claiming that she did not get their due recognition even after taking various risks to have her husband elected from Bishnupur during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Shortly after, outraged by his wife’s action, Khan said …

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday he proposed the creation of a library in India dedicated to traditional Buddhist literature and scriptures, stating that it would be a platform for inquiry and dialogue. Heading to the sixth Indo-Japan Samwad Conference via video conference, Modi praised the forum for …

NEW DELHI: Farmer leaders On Monday he said that they are always ready for dialogue as long as the government offers a “concrete solution”, but said there is nothing new in the Center’s latest letter to them seeking a date for the next round of talks. The leader of the …

NEW DELHI: The new strain of coronavirus, said to be 70 percent more transmissible, has left countries scrambling to announce travel bans even as the world approaches the Christmas and New Years holidays. Amid fears over the highly infectious new mutant strain of the novel coronavirus, several countries have imposed …

CALCUTTA: A war of words broke out between survey strategist Prashant Kishor and the National Secretary General of BJP Kailash Vijayvargiya after the first predicted that the BJP will have a hard time crossing “double digits” in West Bengal Surveys. Prashant Kishor, who was cordoned off by the Trinamool Congress …