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New Delhi, March 24 – NCP (SP) Working President and MP Supriya Sule on Tuesday described the alleged assault on Maharashtra Minister Shambhuraj Desai during the election of the Satara Zilla Parishad president and vice president as a “sad” and “tragic” incident for the state.“This has nothing...

Shahjahanpur (UP), March 24 Statues of those who died in the Kakori train incident were demolished using a bulldozer, allegedly during road construction work in Shahjahanpur, sparking outrage from opposition parties, including the Samajwadi Party (SP), on Tuesday, who demanded action against...

New Delhi, March 24 – Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Atishi, wrote to Speaker Vijender Gupta on Tuesday, accusing him of “silencing” the opposition through repeated suspensions and expulsions, and asserting that AAP MLAs will resume participation in House proceedings only after...

Chandigarh, March 23 Former Punjab minister Laljit Singh Bhullar was arrested on Monday, two days after a state warehousing corporation official committed suicide after accusing the AAP MLA of harassment.Bhullar was arrested in Mandi Gobindgarh in Fatehgarh Sahib district, a police official...

Shimla, March 23 Consumers in Himachal Pradesh will have to pay more for petrol and high-speed diesel, as the Assembly passed a VAT amendment bill on Monday, which seeks to levy an "Orphan and Widow" cess of up to Rs 5 per litre on these two fuels, despite the opposition BJP staging a walkout...

Chandigarh, March 23 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held protests across Punjab on Monday, demanding that the investigation into former Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Laljit Singh Bhullar be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).During these protests, under...

Hyderabad, March 23 Telangana BJP President N Ramchander Rao, along with several leaders and members, was taken into custody after they attempted to storm the Assembly as part of a protest over the alleged failure of the Congress government to fulfill its election promises.The Congress came to...

Chennai, March 23 AIADMK General Secretary and Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Assembly, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, has issued an open letter to the people of the state, sharply criticizing the DMK government and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin for what he described as a “complete breakdown...

New Delhi, March 23 Members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the main opposition party, boycotted the first day of the Delhi Assembly's Budget Session on Monday, staging a protest with a "bier" (funeral pyre), alleging that the ruling BJP was "murdering" democracy.Leader of the Opposition Atishi...

New Delhi/Puducherry, March 22 The BJP, an ally of AINRC in the Union Territory, announced M Arulmurugan as its candidate for the Karaikal (South) constituency in the April 9 Assembly elections on Sunday.A press release issued by the BJP's Central office in New Delhi stated this.The BJP...

Shimla, March 21 The BJP staged a protest both inside and outside the Himachal Pradesh Vidhan Sabha on Saturday against the state government's policies, specifically the recently increased entry tax, and demanded its immediate withdrawal.The protest was held during the Budget Session of the...

Kolkata, March 21 – Tension gripped Bhabanipur, the constituency of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Saturday over allegations that posters belonging to the Trinamool Congress had been torn down. The ruling party claimed that the BJP was responsible for the incident.However, the...

Kolkata, March 21 Supporters of the BJP and TMC clashed in Baranagar in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday over alleged tearing of campaign posters and banners, police said.The incident took place at the Tobin Road crossing within the constituency, in the presence of BJP...

Kolkata, March 20 A group of BJP workers staged a protest outside the party's headquarters in Kolkata on Friday over the selection of certain candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.Around 50 party workers from the Beleghata area demonstrated, raising slogans and demanding the immediate...

New Delhi, March 20 The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Friday claimed that its members faced "harassment" in the wake of the anti-Centre AI Summit protest.The Congress youth wing also alleged that the US trade deal, which it protested against, would harm farmers, compromise national data, and...

Chennai, March 20 The Women's Wing of the SDPI strongly condemned senior AIADMK leaders C Ve Shanmugam and Dindigul C Sreenivasan on Friday for their alleged derogatory and insulting remarks directed at women, and demanded an immediate and unconditional apology from the concerned leaders.In a...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 Hundreds of women activists of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) staged a demonstration in front of the official residence of party MLA Subasini Jena on Thursday. Jena had voted in favor of the BJP-supported independent candidate, Dilip Ray, in the recent Rajya Sabha elections...

Shimla, March 19 Congress MLA Hardeep Singh Bawa demanded on Thursday that the recent increase in toll taxes in the border region be rationalized.Raising the issue during the zero hour, Bawa said that the 142 per cent increase in toll tax for four-wheelers, and 78 per cent increase on trucks...

Kolkata, March 19 The mother of the victim of the RG Kar case said on Thursday that she wants to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections as a BJP candidate, asserting that she aims to use the political route to remove the TMC government.Speaking to reporters, the deceased doctor's mother...

Shimla, March 19 BJP legislators on Thursday protested against the "illegal" felling of trees in the Shallai area of Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, and said that more than 300 pine trees were cut under the administration's nose.BJP MLAs, holding placards with slogans like "Remove the...