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May 22, 2019 No Responses

Amid EVM Row, Nationwide alert sounded about violence on counting day

The Home Ministry on Wednesday put out a nation-wide alert to states about possible eruption of violence in different parts of the country in connection with the counting of votes. The Centre’s advisory comes just a day after former union...

May 22, 2019 No Responses

EVM’s On Run: Multiple videos of EVMs stacked in cars, shops surface on social media

Several incidents of EVMs being stored in illegal cars and shops surfaced on Twitter Opposition will move EC demanding VVPATs be verified in entire Assembly segment in case of discrepancies Results for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections will be declared...

May 17, 2019 No Responses

Won’t forgive Pragya Thakur for her remarks on ‘Bapu’: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hammered his party’s Bhopal candidate Pragya Thakur for calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a patriot, underlining that this kind of a language could not tolerated in a civilized society. “She has apolo...

May 17, 2019 No Responses

India’s Muslims fear for their future under Narendra Modi

With an increase in hate crimes against Muslims in India in recent years, some fear the world’s largest democracy is becoming dangerously intolerant under the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan reports. It...

May 17, 2019 No Responses

After backlash on ‘Godse a patriot’ remark, Pragya Thakur apologises to BJP

Pragya Thakur, who provoked national outrage by calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a patriot, has apologised for her comments, the BJP’s Madhya Pradesh unit said after a barrage of criticism from political parties across the board. “She has...

May 4, 2019 No Responses

Stand by ‘Chowkidar Chor Hai Slogan’, Apologised to Supreme Court, not PM Modi: Rahul Gandhi

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday he will stand by his “Chowkidar Chor Hai” jibe as it is a reality and continue using the slogan again Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Rahul Gandhi said during a press conference in New...

April 26, 2019 No Responses

Allying with PDP was BJP’s mahamilavat in Kashmir: PM Modi

Ahead of his nomination filing in Varanasi on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to India Today Group editors and said that BJP’s alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir was its “mahamilavat”. “We went with the PDP because Mufti....

April 25, 2019 No Responses

BJP’s Giriraj Singh wants EC to ban green flags, ‘Gives feeling of being in Pakistan’

Union minister and BJP leader Giriraj Singh courted yet another controversy on Tuesday when he called for a ban on green flags, which he said “tend to create hatred in the society and gives one a feeling of being in...

April 22, 2019 No Responses

Scrap Article 370, introduce National Register for Citizens across the country: BJP president Amit Shah

BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said his party will scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and introduce National Register for Citizens across the country after returning to power. Shah accused TMC...

April 22, 2019 No Responses

I’m proud to accept I was involved in Babri Masjid’s demolition: Sadhvi Pragya

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Candidate, and 2008 Malegaon blast accused, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on Sunday said she is “proud” to accept that she was involved in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. When she was asked by...