The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader, who arrived here on a two-day Rajasthan trip, called the recent Varanasi court order in the Gyanvapi mosque- Shringar Gauri case a “setback” and said it went against the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said many police personnel were brutally attacked by the violent BJP protesters but the administration showed maximum restraint

The Hurriyat Conference also sought the release of political prisoners including chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq “who is under house detention since August 2019”

PANAJI:Congress veteran Digambar Kamat, who administered a pledge to the party’s 39 other candidates not to defect from the party ahead of assembly elections, defended his decision to renege on his oath and join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

District officials have asked experts from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism to investigate the bizarre events in order to get a scientific explanation.

Goa legislator Michael Lobo said there was no discipline in the Congress and the party’s top leaders were indifferent. “They don’t care,” he said after joining the BJP

Congress leader Pawan Khera also took a dig at the BJP, saying the saffron camp adopted all kinds of tactics - using federal agencies, wooing with money, threats by goons, to make ‘Operation Kichad’ successful.

On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Union home minister Amit Shah denounced “disinformation” to pit Hindi against other regional languages

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