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Hyderabad: The strategic placement of hoardings on the airport road and on main thoroughfares of the State capital, highlighting Telangana’s growth path has become the point of discussion among political circles, more so among the BJP echelons, as the party’s national leaders as well as the party stalwarts from different states are arriving in Hyderabad […]

Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be arriving in Hyderabad on Saturday to attend the two-day meeting of the BJP’s national executive. Modi, who will be reaching Hyderabad on Saturday afternoon, is likely to stay at Novotel hotel at Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), the venue of the BJP conclave. According to the schedule, the […]

Like how a buyer on an e-commerce portal adds items to the cart before checking out, the BJP has just added Maharashtra to its political cart in yet another display of mastery in the toppling game. After multiple twists in the suspense-filled drama, the saffron party has decided to join the government headed by Shiv […]

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy castigated the Central government for its failures and discrimination towards Telangana on various fronts. He said Telangana was the only State with highest budget allocation for agriculture sector and K Chandrashekhar Rao was the only Chief Minister in the country who is aware of the farmers’ plight as well […]

Hyderabad: Just two days ahead of the BJP national executive meeting in Hyderabad on June 2, the BJP State leadership got a shocker even as it is busy in the arrangements. Four BJP corporators in GHMC along with the BJP floor leader in Tandur municipality joined the ruling TRS in Hyderabad on Thursday. The BJP […]

Hyderabad: The battle of billboards between the ruling TRS and the BJP has now spread from the streets of Hyderabad to the nook and cranny of Telangana State. The TRS appears to be hitting out at the BJP with vengeance in response to the latter putting up a digital countdown board against Chief Minister K […]

Hyderabad: Shiv Sena rebel leader Eknath Shinde will be the new Maharashtra Chief Minister, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis announced on Thursday. Fadnavis made the announcement at a joint press meet after the duo met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, ahead of the swearing-in slated for later in the evening.

Hyderabad: Ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national executive meet in the city on July 2 and 3 which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Cyberabad  Police have imposed Section 144 from July 1 to 4. On Wednesday, Cyberabad Police Commissioner Stephen Ravindra issued prohibitory orders against a gathering of more than […]

Media freedom is one of the key indicators of a successful democracy. In mature, liberal and open societies, journalists are allowed to express themselves freely and without the threat of any harassment from the governments. Unfortunately, over the last several years, India has seen a clear deterioration on this front, with a growing number of […]

Mumbai: Amid the political turmoil in Maharashtra following a rebellion by MLAs of the ruling Shiv Sena, senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday left for Delhi along with a legal counsel, a party functionary said. The Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra is facing a crisis as many of its MLAs, […]

New Delhi/Lucknow/Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha was among the victorious BJP candidates in the by-poll results announced on Sunday as the party bagged three out of four assembly seats in the eastern state and wrested the Samajwadi Party strongholds of Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, while the AAP lost Punjab’s […]

Agartala: The ruling BJP won two seats including that of Chief Minister Manik Saha who has been elected to the state assembly for the first time from Town Bordowali while the opposition Congress won one seat in Tripura, where the bypolls were held on June 23 in the four politically-crucial Assembly constituencies. The BJP is ahead […]

Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary and Telangana state in charge Tarun Chugh on Sunday said that a countdown has begun for the misrule of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government as Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will not be able to make a comeback in the next assembly elections. He added […]

New Delhi: By fielding Draupadi Murmu, a tribal woman in the Presidential polls, the BJP is trying to make inroads into the community ahead of the next parliamentary election. The party is also hoping to win their support in this year’s Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls. On June 21, The BJP announced the name […]

Hyderabad: Exuding confidence that BJP would come to power in Telangana, BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh said the countdown for the TRS government’s end had commenced. The party has installed a countdown clock at its office here on Saturday. After formally inaugurating the countdown clock, Tarun Chugh said 529 days were left for the […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday accused the BJP of having accepted donations of crores of rupees from the promoters and associated companies of the fraud-hit DHFL and asked whether there was any quid pro quo. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said at a press conference that India’s largest banking fraud happened right under the nose […]

Guwahati/Agartala: The BJP, which is now ruling four of the eight northeastern states while its allies are governing the remaining four, has been tactically successful in spreading the Hindutva agenda in the region, inhabited by people belonging to diverse religions, according to experts and politicians. The region comprises eight states and is home to 45.58 million […]

Bengaluru: The hijab crisis which made international headlines and pushed Karnataka under the spotlight has been seen as a development detrimental to the image of the state which is considered one of the most progressive and prosperous in the country. However, insiders in the BJP and the RSS confide that the crisis has proved to […]

New Delhi: Is this the end game for Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu in politics with his term as Rajya Sabha Chairman coming to an end in August? A seasoned politician and a veteran BJP leader, Naidu apparently is unhappy with the way he was ‘dumped’ by the saffron party and denied an opportunity to get […]

Hyderabad: While the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) has been accused of committing India’s biggest banking fraud of Rs 34,615 crore, its promoters have been busy donating huge amounts to the BJP through the company as well as its associated companies. As per official records, the company donated more than Rs 27.5 crore to the […]