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Hyderabad, March 5 – Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar held hearings on Thursday on petitions seeking the disqualification of two BRS MLAs who are alleged to have switched their allegiance to the ruling Congress in 2024.The Speaker concluded the hearing on the petition for the...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Maharashtra), March 5 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar municipal commissioner G Shreekant said on Thursday that the administration will propose the disqualification of 15 AIMIM corporators for allegedly obstructing an anti-encroachment drive.The party has 33 corporators in...

Chennai, March 5 BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan on Thursday dismissed TVK chief Vijay's allegation of a "secret deal" between the ruling DMK and her party as "absurd".While agreeing with the actor-politician on his "anti-DMK" stance, the former Governor of Telangana told reporters that the...

Patna, March 5 RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday said Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's decision to enter the Rajya Sabha was a "betrayal" of the people's mandate.Yadav, the leader of the opposition in the state assembly, alleged that the BJP has always opposed Dalits and OBCs, and with...

New Delhi, March 5 – The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) has written to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan seeking clarification on the Centre’s stance regarding the controversial casteist remarks made by JNU Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit. The...

Kolkata, March 5 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that the BJP-led government at the Centre was pushing members of the Matua community into "uncertainty and confusion" in the name of granting citizenship.Remembering Matua matriarch Binapani Devi, popularly known...

Kolkata, March 4 A 104-year-old man has complained of being listed in the "under adjudication" category in the final electoral rolls issued by the Election Commission following the SIR exercise in West Bengal on February 28, officials said on Wednesday.Sheikh Ibrahim, a resident of Jamalpur...

Bengaluru, March 3 – The Karnataka BJP accused the state government on Tuesday of diverting funds intended for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes under the Special Component Plan (SCP) and Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) for other purposes, calling it a "betrayal" of Dalits.The Leader of the...

Bengaluru, March 3 Amid the "leadership tussle" in Karnataka, state Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar emphasized "unity" within the Congress on Tuesday, stating that he and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah are like "milk and honey."Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, Shivakumar praised Chief...

Bengaluru, February 3 – In response to allegations of tapping the phones of D K Shivakumar's camp, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday described the accusations as "desperate statements from dissatisfied individuals."Siddaramaiah rejected attempts to portray a rift between himself...

Kolkata, March 3 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Trinamool Congress leaders and a West Bengal Minister on Tuesday of making baseless allegations against the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal.The BJP also claimed that the Trinamool Congress's decision to...

Bengaluru, March 3 – Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah dismissed on Tuesday allegations by Leader of the Opposition R. Ashoka and Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy that phones were being tapped to monitor Deputy Chief Minister and State Congress President D.K. Shivakumar, calling the charges...

New Delhi, March 3 The BJP on Tuesday cited a claim made by the husband of a former Haryana Congress leader to allege that the Gandhi family attempted to "extort" Rs 7 crore from the couple in exchange for an assembly election ticket in the state.BJP national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari...

Mathurapur (WB), March 2 Union Home Minister Amit Shah intensified the BJP's campaign on infiltration in West Bengal on Monday, stating that while "only names are being deleted" from the state's electoral rolls under the SIR, infiltrators would be "removed from the state" once the party comes to...

Howrah (WB), Mar 2 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asserted that criminals in West Bengal would be "in jail or God knows where" within a month of a BJP government coming to power in the state.However, he said eliminating joblessness in Bengal, from where a significant number of people...

Kolkata, March 2 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission over deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls, alleging a "nexus" between the poll panel and the BJP to disenfranchise genuine voters and help the saffron party in the...

Howrah (WB), March 2 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated on Monday that criminals in West Bengal would be "in jail or wherever," within a month of a BJP government coming to power in the state.However, he said eliminating unemployment in Bengal, from where a significant number of people...

Kolkata, March 1 The TMC on Sunday accused the EC of carrying out what it described as "silent, invisible rigging" during the voter revision process in West Bengal, alleging that prominent figures such as cricketer Richa Ghosh, ministers Shashi Panja and Md Ghulam Rabbani, and chief secretary...

Kolkata, March 1 The TMC on Sunday accused the Election Commission of carrying out "silent, invisible rigging" during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), claiming that the names of Indian cricketer Richa Ghosh, West Bengal minister Md Ghulam Rabbani, and three party MLAs have been placed...

Madurai, March 1 AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami stated on Sunday that the AIADMK-led alliance would secure a resounding victory in the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and form the next government by winning 210 seats.Addressing a massive public meeting of the alliance...