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.

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

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

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)

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

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 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.

Aviation regulator DGCA reviewed its earlier order on breath analyser tests in view of the reducing trend of Covid-19 cases and increase in volume of air traffic

With S Jaishankar by her side, French foreign minister Catherine Colonna said the situation in the Indo-Pacific and the “many challenges that have emerged because of China” figured in her discussions with the external affairs minister