CHENNAI/COIMBATORE: The AIADMK led by Edappadi K Palaniswami on Monday announced its decision to break its alliance with the BJP.A meeting of party headquarters office-bearers and district secretaries chaired by Palaniswami adopted a unanimous resolution to this effect. Former minister and senior leader K P Munusamy read out the resolution amid scores of former ministers, functionaries and cadres...
NEW DELHI: After Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday took a potshot at the new Parliament building and termed it "Modi Multiplex or Modi Marriot", BJP president JP Nadda hit back, saying the remark betrayed the party's "pathetic mindset".Calling Ramesh's statement on the new Parliament an "insult to Indians", Nadda said that "even by the lowest standards of the Congress, this is a pathetic...
KALYAN: The Mahatma Phule police have served a notice to Ganesh mandal run by Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vijay Salvi for targeting the Central government through its decoration.The mandal's theme this year is 'Democracy is at peril' where it has shown that the Centre has captured all the four pillars of democracy. The mandal called Vijay Tarun Mitra Mandal is celebrating its 60 years. Last year, the cops...
PUDUCHERRY: The 15th legislative assembly of the Union territory of Puducherry, which convened for the fourth session on Wednesday, concluded within 25 minutes much to the chagrin of the members of the opposition parties – the DMK and the Congress.The House passed resolutions thanking the Union government for granting approval to provide 10% quota for government school students in admission to...
NEW DELHI: Brushing aside apprehensions of a delay in the implementation of the Women's Reservation Bill, Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said in the Lok Sabha that the next government will conduct the census and the delimitation exercise immediately after the elections and set in motion the process to make reservation for women in Lok Sabha and state Assemblies a reality.Intervening in the...
NEW DELHI: Unanimity shown by political parties in support of the women's reservation bill, which was introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, is seen by BJP with optimism to add to its ticked list of long-time poll promises.BJP has been consistent in its support for the women's reservation bill. But the one introduced by the NDA government in Lok Sabha in 1998 lapsed with dissolution of the House. The...
CHENNAI: "Why don’t you join the BJP?" This is what the Enforcement Directorate (ED) asked the arrested Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, when the latter was under the central agency’s custody for five days in connection with a cash-for-jobs scam.Senior advocate Kapil Sibal told this to Chennai district principal sessions judge S Alli on Friday, when Senthil Balaji’s plea for release on bail...
BENGALURU: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday expressed his disappointment at the defection of Congress leaders like Anil Antony, CR Kesavan and Kiran Kumar Reddy to BJP and wondered how they could cross over to the ‘dark side’.“I have always believed that politics is based on principles. While I believe each person has a right to change their mind and their party, there must be some principles....
THANE: The Shiv Sena's (Eknath Shinde faction) youth wing on Tuesday filed an FIR against a rapper in Ambernath of Thane district for allegedly using objectionable and abusive remarks against the ruling Shiv Sena (Shinde) and BJP in the state.The FIR was filed by Snehal Kamble, a member of the Yuva Sena core committee at Shivaji Nagar police station.Raj Mungase, is a resident of Chhatrapati Sambhaji...
BENGALURU: The Congress leadership has informally asked candidates and functionaries to refrain from attacking PM Modi and getting into Hindutva-versus-secularism debates during the campaign for the May 10 Karnataka assembly elections, reports Anil Gejji."If we say anything against Modi, it will be blown out of proportion and efforts will be made to change the poll narrative..." is the message learned...
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