Former Railway Minister and Rajya Sabha MP, Mukul Roy, passed away early this morning at a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 71 years old. His son, Subhranshu Roy, confirmed that Roy died around 1:30 AM after a long struggle with multiple health issues. Roy, a founding member of the All India...
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New Delhi, February 23 – BJP National Spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain commented on Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's statement suggesting that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should lead the INDIA bloc, which comprises opposition parties, saying that Aiyar himself is more...
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Former Railway Minister and Rajya Sabha MP, Mukul Roy, passed away early this morning at a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 71 years old. His son, Subhranshu Roy, informed that Roy died around 1:30 AM after a prolonged battle with several health issues. Roy, a founding member of the All India...
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New Delhi, February 22 – The surprising exit of former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah due to "humiliation" within the party has once again brought attention to Congress's perennial decline and its failures, particularly those of the party's leadership, in preventing veteran leaders from...
Former Assam Congress Chief Bhupen Borah Joins BJPGuwahati, February 22: Former Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Bhupen Kumar Borah, formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party today.The joining ceremony took place at the BJP's state office, where Bhupen Borah was joined by former...
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Former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Kumar Borah joined the BJP today in Guwahati, in the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state BJP chief Dilip Saikia.Bhupen Kumar Borah is a veteran politician from Assam who was associated with the Indian National Congress for over three...
Jaipur, February 21 – Workers of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha clashed briefly with police on Saturday while attempting to march towards the state headquarters of the Indian National Congress in Jaipur.The BJYM workers were protesting against the Youth Congress’s bare-chested protest at the...
Thiruvananthapuram, February 21 Senior BJP leader and party's state in-charge Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said that the people of Kerala will teach the UDF and the LDF a lesson following the disruption of an AI summit by Congress activists in New Delhi.In a post on 'X', Javadekar said that...
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New Delhi, February 20 – Members of the Indian Youth Congress staged a dramatic protest inside Bharat Mandapam on Friday during the India AI Impact Summit 2026, raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Central government over alleged "unemployment, inflation, and the reported...
Patna, February 18 – In a disciplinary action, the Bihar Congress on Wednesday expelled two senior leaders from the party for six years for their alleged anti-party activities.The decision was announced through an official statement issued by Rajesh Rathore, Chairman of the party’s media cell...
Guwahati, February 17 – In a major political development ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, former Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhupen Kumar Borah is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on February 22, following his high-profile meeting with Chief Minister...
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Bhubaneswar, February 17 – The opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Indian National Congress (INC) criticized the address delivered in the Odisha Assembly by Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati on the first day of the Budget Session on Tuesday.Members of both the Congress and the BJD also...
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Guwahati, February 17 – Ahead of the 2026 Assam Assembly elections, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Dr. Vivek Joshi, held detailed consultations with recognized national and state political parties in Guwahati on...
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On Monday, senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar publicly criticized his party colleagues, a day after stating that the LDF, led by Pinarayi Vijayan, would retain power in Kerala.In a series of sharp remarks, Aiyar branded Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor a "dishonest careerist" and...
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New Delhi, February 16 – Following senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s assertion that Pinarayi Vijayan would continue as Chief Minister of Kerala, the BJP launched a sharp attack on the Congress on Monday, alleging that no one within the party or its alliance accepts Rahul Gandhi, the...
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New Delhi, February 16 Nearly one in four winning candidates in the 2026 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections have declared criminal cases against themselves, while close to four-fifths are crorepatis, according to an analysis by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).The...
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Bengaluru, February 16 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Karnataka unit president B.Y. Vijayendra launched a scathing attack on state Minister Priyank Kharge on Monday over his controversial remarks against the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and questioned the relevance of the Congress.In a...
New Delhi, February 15. Congress leader Pawan Khera has clarified that veteran party member Mani Shankar Aiyar has "no official connection" with the Indian National Congress for several years and now speaks or writes entirely in his personal capacity.The statement came in response to a recent...
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New Delhi, Feb 13 Electoral trusts received ₹3,826.34 crore in contributions in the 2024-25 financial year and disbursed ₹3,826.35 crore to political parties, with the BJP receiving more than 82 per cent of the funds, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said on Friday.In its latest...
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New Delhi, February 11 In the Lok Sabha, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju and BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said that successive electoral defeats have made the Leader of the Opposition so bitter that he has started to hate India and its constitutional institutions.Countering Gandhi's...
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