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MURSHIDABAD: Suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir on Monday announced that he will launch a new political party at noon, stating that the outfit will work for the common man, deprived Muslims and the aam aadmi.Speaking to reporters, Kabir said, “I am launching a new party at noon today. This party is being formed to work for the common man.” He added that the party would focus on...

MUMBAI: A video of BJP MLA from Ghatkopar (East) Parag Shah slapping a rickshaw driver for allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road. BJP functionaries said that the rickshaw driver was driving on the wrong side of the road and when Shah asked him what the urgency was, the driver replied he was in a hurry. After this, Shah slapped him. The incident reportedly took place late on Friday. Mumbai...

Kolkata: Director and TMC MLA Raj Chakraborty filed an FIR in response to "misogynist" trolling directed at his wife, actress Subhashree Ganguly, amid the Messi controversy. Chakraborty emphasised that the issue stemmed from misinformation and a targeted attack on her identity as a woman and mother.Chakraborty explained, "The event's PR team invited her as a representative of Tollywood to attend a meet...

MUMBAI: Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar will conduct a hearing in the Shiv Sena MLAs disqualification case on Thursday. Earlier this month, Narwekar had decided to consolidate the 34 petitions in the disqualification case into six groups based on their cause of action.MLAs seeking more time to reply must provide justification: Maha Assembly SpeakerOut of the six groups, four contain...

THANE: NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad on Wednesday questioned the authenticity of wagh nakh claiming that they were never used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. This comes close on the ground of Shiv Sena-UBT MLA Aditya Thackeray also recently questioning if the weapon was indeed used by the Maratha warrior.Awhad was addressing the media and INDIA alliance activists in Thane where he announced onstage that the...

KALYAN: Amidst the ongoing exchange of allegations between BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad and Shiv Sena's Kalyan (East) city president, Mahesh Gaikwad, in the Kalyan East assembly constituency, the newly-appointed BJP Kalyan district president, Nana Suryavanshi, has called upon chief minister Eknath Shinde to intervene and prevent further statements from the city president targeting the MLA.During a media...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police arrested Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Thursday morning at his Chandigarh residence in connection with a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, registered against him in Jalalabad of Fazilka district in 2015.Khaira’s arrest has the potential to strain relations between Congressand AAP, both constituents of the opposition INDIA bloc.The...

KALYAN: In a unique initiative on the occasion of the birthday of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MLA Pramod (Raju) Patil, his supporters celebrated his birthday by filling up potholes in their area in Kalyan Gramin, Ulhasnagar and Ambernath. Patil recently had appealed to the people that on his birthday, the workers should not put up banners and instead fill potholes so that the general public could get...

KALYAN: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) MLA Pramod Patil on Wednesday warned the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) to remove hawkers from outside Dombivli station on Wednesday. Patil along with his supporters reached the railway station to remove the hawkers. However, before Patil reached at the station area, the hawkers had fled.Dombivli city usually witnesses crowds near the station and...

BENGALURU: Karnataka BJP MLA Madal Virupakshappa was arrested by Lokayutka police Monday evening at Kyatsandra near Tumakuru in an alleged bribery case. Virupakshappa has been arraigned as accused No. 1 in a bribery case, following his son Prashanth Kumar's arrest when he was caught accepting a kickback of Rs 40 lakh from a contractor on behalf of his father for a tender issued by the state-owned...