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NEW DELHI: The Leader of Opposition in the Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday met Union home minister Amit Shah. The meeting came against the backdrop of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) tightening its noose around prominent Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee in the multi-crore SSC Recruitment Scam. Sources told The New Indian that Adhikari briefed […]

NEW DELHI: Fifty-one retired female bureaucrats, intellectuals and academicians wrote an open letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday, demanding action against Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for his ‘Rashtrapatni’ remark. “It is our appeal to the Home Minister (Amit Shah) to initiate appropriate action against him as per […]

PATNA: The underlying tone of the first-of-its-kind National Executive meeting of seven morchas of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the capital city of Bihar, Patna, is hard to miss.  The meeting seems to have a clear message to the party’s alliance partner in the state, Janata Dal (United) strongman and Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar […]

NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday demanded that top BJP leaders apologise to the nation over alleged involvement of party functionaries in crimes against women in Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. Addressing a press conference here, Congress spokesperson Ajoy Kumar said, “You (BJP) asked for an apology from Sonia Gandhi but I ask you to apologise to […]

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday demanded a CBI inquiry into illegal mining in Rajasthan and the death of Seer Vijay Das who had self-immolated on July 20 in protest against illegal mining in the state. Seer Vijay Das had set himself on fire on July 20 and passed away in a Delhi hospital […]

NEW DELHI: At the end of this month, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is holding two crucial meetings in Patna and Chitrakoot to chalk out its strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. On July 30-31, the top leadership of the party including BJP president JP Nadda, general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh, Union home minister […]

NEW DELHI: Heavy cross-voting in favour of Draupadi Murmu became the distinctive feature of this Presidential election as the Opposition’s candidate Yashwant Sinha drew a blank in three states Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland and Sikkim. What sets the tongues wagging is an indication that Bengal satrap Mamata Banerjee’s fortress might have been breached. The result of […]

NEW DELHI: In a letter bomb on Tuesday night, Uttar Pradesh Minister Dinesh Khatik submitted his ‘resignation’ to Union Home Minister Amit Shah complaining that he is being neglected and ignored in his department. Khatik is the Minister of State in the Jal Shakti Department of the Uttar Pradesh government. In his letter to Shah, […]

NEW DELHI: On Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 121st birth anniversary, his nephew Chittatosh Mookerjee sensationally claimed the ideals of his uncle and that of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are different, in an unhinged interview with The New Indian. Reacting to it, the Congress slammed BJP on the birth anniversary of the Jan Sangh founder, whose sacrifices […]

NEW DELHI: Veteran politician Yashwant Sinha on Monday asserted that the election for the President of India is not about two people but about two ideologies, as filed his nomination papers for the Presidential election in New Delhi. The former Bharatiya Janata Party leader was accompanied by the top leaders from the opposition including Congress’ […]