BAREILLY: The UP government has started “reviewing” the 1978 Sambhal riots following a BJP leader‘s demand to “reopen” the cases. The decision follows CM Yogi Adityanath‘s mention of the riots during the December 2024 legislative session, which sparked renewed efforts to revisit the violence. While official figures of the death toll from the riots are…
NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader LK Advani, currently undergoing treatment at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi, is showing signs of improvement and is expected to be shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) within the next one or two days, a statement released by the hospital on Tuesday confirmed. The former deputy prime minister…
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Friday directed the Centre to clarify its position on a petition by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, urging the ministry of home affairs to decide on Rahul Gandhi’s Indian citizenship status.A bench comprising acting Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela made an oral observation, requesting the Central…
SHIMLA: After Sanjauli and Mandi, some residents and organisations have sought the demolition of another “illegal” mosque in Shimla, alleging it had become “a place for gathering of various unidentified and non-local people”.A delegation led by Shimla’s former deputy mayor and BJP leader Rakesh Sharma and local councillor Rachna Sharma on Tuesday handed over a…
NEW DELHI: A day after the Haryana unit of Bhartiya Janta Party requested the Election Commission to defer the state assembly elections, the saffron party leader Anil Vij offered clarification on Sunday saying that the party was ok with preponing the poll dates as well. He added that the party was ready to contest polls…
Ajay Kumar was shot dead by the unidentified armed assailants near his house PATNA: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former general secretary of Bajrangpuri Mandal, Ajay Kumar alias Ajay Sah (50) was shot dead by the unidentified armed assailants near his house at Bajrangpuri area in Patna City on late Tuesday night.The incident…
NEW DELHI: Bhartiya Janata Party leader and former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday opposed the advisory to eateries along the Kanwar yatra route, requiring them to display the names of their owners. Naqvi claimed that such orders may give rise to the disease of untouchability.In a social media post on X, Naqvi criticized…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader M B Bhanuprakash passed away due to a cardiac arrest on Monday while participating in a protest organized by his party against the rise in petrol and diesel prices in Karnataka. “He collapsed after suffering cardiac arrest while getting into his car,” a police source said. “He was rushed to a…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Suresh Gopi stirred political waters on Saturday when he described Indira Gandhi as the “mother of India” and late Congress chief minister K Karunakaran as a “courageous administrator”, labeling them as significant figures in India’s political landscape, as reported by PTI.He also hailed Karunakaran and Marxist veteran E K Nayanar as…
NEW DELHI: Former Karnataka chief minister and BJP leader B S Yediyurappa returned to Bengaluru on Friday, asserting that the ongoing Pocso case against him is an act of ‘unnecessary confusion’ and expressing confidence that the truth will prevail. He arrived at the Bengaluru airport a day after high court stayed a non-bailable warrant against…
