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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Hyderabad: TPCC president A Revanth Reddy lashed out at the Central Government for introducing what he termed as an ‘ill thought’ Agnipath scheme and said the move would pose a threat to national security and leave the youngsters at crossroads. The TPCC president met a few accused persons in the Secunderabad railway station violence at […]
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Suryapet: Madiga Reservation Porata Samithi (MRPS) founder president Manda Krishna Madiga on Friday said that they would conduct sadak bandh on July 2 and chalo Hyderabad on July 3, if the Centre failed to initiate steps for classification of SCs in the state. Speaking at a media conference here, Krishna Madiga said that the Centre […]
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Hyderabad: The expose of the Narendra Modi government’s ‘power-play’ in the Sri Lanka-Adani green energy plant deal doesn’t seem to have had any impact on the Centre as is evident from its continued efforts to favour certain corporate giants. The latest exercise in this direction has been in the contentious coal imports, with the BJP […]
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Nellore: The ruling YSR Congress Party is confident of a big win in the by-election to the Atmakur Assembly seat to be held on Thursday. The campaigning for the bypoll ended on a high-note on Tuesday evening with both the YSRCP and the BJP holding huge rallies and road shows. However, the ruling party candidate […]
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Hyderabad: Industries, IT and Municipal Administration Minister KT Rama Rao Wednesday said Congress had neglected the welfare and development of people in the State when it was in power. On the other hand, BJP was using caste and religion as the main plank instead of working on development issues. Speaking at a public meeting at […]
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Hyderabad: Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao on Tuesday challenged a union Minister from the city, whom he did not name, to get the city police to book a case against him instead of bringing pressure on them to book cases against engineers and other staff of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation […]
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Hyderabad: It’s official now! Telangana’s repeated contention that it was a pure political play on the part of the BJP government at the Centre in not allowing the State to raise open market borrowings (OMBs) and that it was not based on any fiscal issue has been virtually acknowledged by the country’s Central bank. By […]
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New Delhi: BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Monday hit out at his party’s MLA for calling ‘Agnipath’ protesters “Jihadis” , saying that youths of the country “melt their bones” to serve in the army and that peaceful demonstration is everyone’s right. Taking to Twitter, the Pilibhit MP, who has often taken a divergent view from […]
