Bhartiya Janata Party National General Secretary and Kashmir minder Ram Madhav said that former Chief Minister had allowed the government forces to operate freely during her tenure while the Government of India had announced ‘operation all-out’. “..(T)hough government forces faced difficulties on the security front, the Mehbooba-led government had allowed them to operate freely,” Madhav […]
Opposition parties on Thursday appeared to be winning 11 bypolls, limiting the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies to just three out of four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats across 11 states. With prestige at stake in every bypoll, the BJP lost the high-profile Kairana Lok Sabha seat in politically important Uttar Pradesh […]
The three-day-old B.S. Yeddyurappa government in Karnataka collapsed on Saturday, with the chief minister announcing his decision to resign without facing a trust vote, reports said. The Supreme Court had on Friday ordered a floor test in the Karnataka Assembly at 4pm Saturday, drastically reducing the 15-day window given by Governor Vajubhai Vala to Bharatiya […]
To prove their majority in the Supreme Court on Friday, 18 May, the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) combine is likely to produce affidavits of its 116 MLAs, The Quint reported Friday. During a late-night hearing on 16-17 May, the apex court had refused to stay BS Yeddyurappa’s swearing-in as the Chief Minister of Karnataka, after the Congress-JD(S) […]
With Chaudhary Lal Singh — the BJP minister who apparently resigned of his own will along with another minister Chander Prakash Ganga for defending the rape accused of 8-year-old Muslim minor girl from Kathua — again showing up in a rally on Tuesday to press for a CBI probe in the case, a report published […]
Families in Kerala have risen in protest over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old Muslim girl in Kathua with many banning entry to BJP workers saying they have little girls at home as outrage over the assault echoed hundreds of miles away, the Telegraph reported. The posters, handwritten and printed, first appeared on boundary […]
BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav, who along with Haseeb Drabu stitched the PDP-BJP alliance, today said that there was no threat to the coalition in Jammu and Kashmir as both the parties were working in coordination, reports said. He arrived in Jammu today morning to chair a Bharatiya Janata Party legislature meet at the party […]
It was anybody’s guess what Mehbooba Mufti was up to for the past three months after her father’s demise. Initially she tried to position herself as a politician who is not power hungry. She kept on whipping her moral high horse to take her higher and higher so that people are deceived into perceiving her […]
‘These curbs could now extend to the classrooms’ What happened on 9 February and onwards does not constitute a crime and in no way sedition. There have been some alleged slogans in bad taste but that should have been dealt with at the internal level. A university is a place where different ideas, opinions and […]
Nasir Mirza Journalism teacher There are many grey shades in this respect. Mufti’s image was severely dented when he joined hands with BJP. It was like the North Pole joining the South Pole. Power is not the final objective of great leaders. His long cherished dream to be the Chief Minister was not only short […]