Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi sounded the party’s bugle for the upcoming assembly elections in Kerala on Wednesday from his Lok Sabha constituency of Wayanad and attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, RSS and the Democratic Front of Left (LDF), led by the CPI (M). ) in the state. Rahul also urged congressional workers…
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NEW DELHI: Politics took center stage Wednesday as the BJP and Congress exchanged charges for unprecedented violence on Republic Day during the tractor rally by protesting farmers. A section of protesting farmers had entered the Red Fort on Tuesday and were waving flags from some domes of the iconic monument in the national capital. The…
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AGARTALA: Several protesters were injured on Wednesday after Tripura police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) used tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of protesting teachers and blocked roads in front of the official premises of the Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Dev. Some of the protesters were injured and at least two…
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NEW DELHI: Three more Rafale fighters landed in India from France Wednesday night, to add to the eight Omni-role aircraft already installed by the IAF. The three Rafale were refueled in the air by UAE Air Force Airbus MRTT tankers, in another indication of close military ties with the Gulf country, during their more than…
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NEW DELHI: Congress said Wednesday that the January 26 violence during the tractor rally in the national capital was a planned conspiracy to smear the peaceful farmers movement. Congressional spokesman Randeep Surjewala blamed the Union Interior Minister Amit Shah for the violence that took place yesterday and called for his resignation. Earlier today, the Aam…
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NEW DELHI: Peasant leaders protesting are considering postponing their march on foot to Parliament on February 1 against the three farm laws in the wake of violence in the national capital during the tractor parade on Republic Day. A senior farmer leader said that Samkyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), which is a coordinating body of protesting…
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BALLIA: BJP Uttar Pradesh MLA Surendra Singh accused party MP Virendra Singh Mast of land grabbing and said she will sit on a 101-hour fast for common sense to prevail in Ballia MP and District Magistrate . The Bairia legislator has also alleged that District Magistrate HP Shahi was working under pressure from the MP….
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CALCUTTA: Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui, the influential cleric of the Muslim shrine Furfura Sharif, who has muddied the political waters of West Bengal with the launch of the Indian Secular Front (ISF), feels that the government of Mamata Banerjee has done more harm than good to the Muslims by creating a Hindu-Muslim divide. The 34-year-old cleric…
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NEW DELHI: China on Wednesday opposed India’s decision to continue to ban 59 Chinese mobile apps, saying the action violates the World Trade Organization principles of non-discrimination. In response to the media inquiry, the spokesman for the Chinese embassy in India, Councilor Ji Rong, urged the Indian side to immediately correct what he called “discriminatory…
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NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, farmers’ organization Samyukta Kisan Morcha alleged that “antisocial” elements such as actor Deep Sidhu tried to “torpedo” its peaceful agitation under a conspiracy, but claimed they will not allow “the government and other enemy forces of the movement peacefully break this fight. ” The morcha, which represents 41 farmers’ unions, has…
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