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Bhubaneswar: BJP on Sunday postponed elections for state president and national council members, originally scheduled for completion by July 1. The decision came in the wake of the stampede in Puri that killed three.The announcement was made by the state election officer and Balasore MP Pratap Chandra Sarangi, who expressed deep sorrow over the incident. "We are deeply saddened by the Puri incident, and in light of this tragedy, we have decided to defer the election process," Sarangi said.The party has not yet announced a new date for the elections, emphasising that the focus remains on supporting those affected by the disaster.
Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar urges Akali factions to unite, honoring veteran leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa. Political leaders gather in Sangrur to pay tributes, emphasizing the need for a strong Panthic party for Punjab and India. Leaders recall Dhindsa's dedication to service and community welfare. Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar, in a poignant appeal, urged all Akali factions to set aside their differences and egos to unite in a bid to form a robust 'Panthic' party. This coalition, Jakha ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Axiom-4 crew members, including Shubhanshu Shukla, were welcomed with hugs and drinks as they stepped into the International Space Station on Thursday. The newly launched spacecraft -- the fifth in the Dragon series and named Grace -- successfully completed a soft docking with the International Space Station at 4.01pm while orbiting above the North Atlantic Ocean."At 6:31 am EDT (4:01 IST) on Thursday, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station for the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4," the National Aeronautics ...Read More >
South 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], July 1 (ANI): The Alipore court on Tuesday sent three main accused in the gangrape case at a Kolkata law college to police custody till July 8. The Court also sent the security guard, the fourth accused, to custody till July 4. The accused, Monojit, Pramit, and Zaib, will remain in police custody until July 8, and the security guard, Pinaki, will be in custody until July 4. On June 25, a female student was allegedly gangraped inside the South Calcutta Law College in Kasba area in the capital city of West Bengal. Five days later, on June 30, the Kolka ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 6 (ANI): The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) has announced that it will organise a Mega Job Fair in Bihar on July 19 at Gyan Bhawan, Patna. In a post on the social media platform X, the IYC stated that over 120 companies are expected to participate in the job fair, offering more than 5,000 employment opportunities https://x.com/IYC/status/1941493978198601909 Earlier. The IYC organised a Mega Job Fair 2025 at Talkatora Stadium in Delhi on June 19 to mark the birthday of Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, a release said. According to the rele ...Read More >
VIJAYAPURA: The letter written by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah opposing the move to increase the height of Almatti dam seems to have united the politicians of Karnataka cutting across the party lines. Fadnavis had recently written to Siddaramaiah stating that raising the dam height would lead to a flood-like situation in parts of Maharashtra, mainly Kolhapur and Sangli districts. Politicians of Karnataka have not only lambasted Fadnavis but also refuted his claims. Former Karnataka Water Resources Minister and BJP MP Govind Karjol has ...Read More >
Mumbai: Shiv Sena minister Bharat Gogawale caused a flutter on Saturday by alleging that criminal cases, jail stint, fights and "murder" aided BJP MP and former CM Narayan Rane's rise in politics. A day later, Nitesh Rane, Rane's son and BJP minister, said his father has no police record related to any murder, and that he will meet Gogawale and "broaden his understanding" of certain facts.Political observers said Gogawale may have got carried away in the heat of the moment but he had embarrassed the Ranes, who are in BJP. The Ranes are likely to play down his comment to prevent any slugfest be ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The BJP on Sunday initiated a process for the election of its Odisha unit chief with the announcement of a voters' list, a party functionary said here. The voting will be conducted on July 1, and the announcement of the party's State unit president will be made on that day, said Balasore MP Pratap Chandra Sarangi, who has been appointed as the State returning officer for the poll. "Election for various positions is in the DNA of the BJP. The elections from the booth to district-level units have been completed. The process for the party's State president election began on Sunday," ...Read More >
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 1 (ANI): At the inauguration ceremony of the first AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy) University, The Mahayogi Guru Gorakhnath AYUSH University in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, Bharatiya Janta Party member and Member of Lok Sabha form Gorakhpur, Ravi Kishan thanked the Prime Minister Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minster Yogi Adityanath and called the moment historic. He said, 'I heartily thank Prime Minister Modi, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and the double-engine government. This is a historic moment for Gorakhpur.' Ki ...Read More >
Ranchi: JMM general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya launched a scathing attack on the BJP blaming it for the clash in Sahibganj during Hul Diwas celebrations on Monday that left 12 people, including five policemen, injured. It also said that the saffron party has been trying to turn the Santhal Pargana into Manipur."In the Bhognadih incident, police unearthed some crucial information on Tuesday, which clearly shows BJP's involvement in the incident. BJP is trying to turn the Santhal region into Manipur since the starting of the last assembly elections. The way BJP tried to make Manipur unstable ...Read More >
Shimla, Jul 6: BJP Lok Sabha MP from Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, on Sunday visited her rain-ravaged constituency and asserted that the way relief work is being undertaken, the Congress will not return to power in the state in even 20 years. She also said that as an MP, she could only apprise the prime minister of the situation. "I am deeply pained to see the plight of the people. They have lost family members, houses have been washed away, several people are still missing, but we can only console the families who have lost their kin, and now it is time to provide relief," the Hindi film actor sai ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): The Lok Sabha as part of the Winter Session of the Parliament has been adjourned until 11:00 am on December 9, as announced by the Speaker on Friday. The proceedings of the lower house were adjourned until 12 pm earlier in the day as disruptions continued for the ninth consecutive day of the winter session, with opposition members raising slogans and creating ruckus over various contentious issues. Also Read | Hashimpura Massacre Case: Supreme Court Grants Bail to 8 Convicts in Infamous 1987 Massacre Case. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla made a fervent appeal ...Read More >
Bhopal, Dec 11 (VOICE) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav will launch 'Jan Kalyan Parv' on Wednesday on the completion of one year of his government. The BJP government in the state will organise a fortnight-long programme called 'Jan Kalyan Parv' to highlight the development works undertaken in the past year. Chief Minister Yadav has directed district administration to organise camps in blocks and gram panchayats to highlight the government's achievements. "The officers will meet people and make them aware of the state government's welfare schemes and ensure that those eligible get ...Read More >
Haridwar: A woman politician has been arrested for allegedly letting her boyfriend and others repeatedly rape her 13-year-old daughter in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The horrifying crime, which occurred between January and March, was exposed when the minor bravely confided in her father, prompting a police investigation that led to the arrest of the accused. The accused was arrested with her boyfriend and one more. According to police reports, the minor was gang-raped multiple times, often in the presence of her mother. The minor, who had been living with her father following her parents' separat ...Read More >
Guwahati: Two candidates each from BJP and it's ally AGP seems to be won Rajya Sabha election uncontested with the announcement of it's candidates while Congress led Opposition still silent in this matter till filling the report. The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has announced to continue senior leader former union minister Birendra Prasad Baishya as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in Assam, scheduled for June 19. Baishya, who has been a Rajya Sabha member since 2019 will continue the thrid term on the basis of seniority and experiences. Baishya first elected as a Member of L ...Read More >
Srinagar- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said foreign countries were told clearly during the post-Operation Sindoor diplomatic outreach that in case of a fresh provocation, India would repeat its action. Speaking at a discussion at the Ahmedabad Management Association, Tharoor said Indian delegations which visited foreign countries in the aftermath of Operation Sindoor managed to convey that India acted with restraint and responsibility. "In other places, we actually were able to get some very high-placed people to say not only that they respected and supported India's right of self- ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jun 7 (PTI) A 26-year-old man allegedly beheaded his wife following a heated argument on the outskirts of Bengaluru after he suspected her of having an extra-marital affair, police said on Saturday. After killing Manasa, Shankar travelled with her severed head on his scooter to the nearest police station and confessed to the crime, they said. The man was later arrested, police said, adding that the incident occurred at Heelalige village, near Chandapura, Anekal taluk late on Friday. According to the police, the couple were married for over five years and have a four-year-old daug ...Read More >
Srinagar- Jailed Lok Sabha MP Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, will observe a 24-hour hunger strike inside Tihar Jail from 8 pm Saturday to 8 pm Sunday, in protest against what he calls the "continued denial of democratic rights" to the people of Kashmir. In a statement issued on Friday, Rashid's party, the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), said the hunger strike comes amid the national political discourse around the 1975 Emergency and growing accusations of authoritarianism between the BJP and the Congress. "While national parties are engaged in a war of words over the eros ...Read More >
Dehradun, Jun 28 (PTI) The Uttarakhand BJP will get a new president by July 1, state election officer of the party Khajan Das said on Saturday. Union minister Harsh Malhotra has been appointed as the central election officer for the selection of the new president of the party's state unit, Das added. Also Read | Bengaluru Power Cut: BESCOM Announces Scheduled Outages Across Over 100 Areas on June 29 and 30 Due to Emergency Maintenance; Check Full List of Affected Localities and Timings. The name of the new state party chief will be announced by July 1, he said. Rajya Sabha MP Mahendra Bhat ...Read More >
"Incidents in West Bengal are becoming a pattern": BJP fact-finding team slams TMC over South Kolkata gang rape case The BJP team comprised former Union Ministers Satpal Singh and Meenakshi Lekhi, Rajya Sabha MP Manan Kumar Mishra, and Lok Sabha MP Biplab Kumar Deb. They met senior police officials and assessed the ongoing investigation Calling crimes against women in West Bengal a "pattern now," BJP leader Satpal Singh on Monday led a fact-finding team to South Kolkata following the alleged gangrape of a female student inside South Calcutta Law College on June 25. "The kind of incidents tak ...Read More >
MADURAI: Likening the custodial murder of Ajith Kumar in Tiruppuvanam to an 'organised crime by police where the state kills its own citizens,' Madras high court lambasted the Tamil Nadu police and said the action against the perpetrators should be more stringent than in normal murder cases.A division bench of Justice S M Subramaniam and Justice A D Maria Clete pointed to 44 external injuries on the person of Ajith Kumar and said no part of the body was spared by the delinquent cops. "Even an ordinary murderer would not have inflicted such kind of injuries," the bench said on Tuesday.The natur ...Read More >
Indore, July 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya on Saturday said that electing Hemant Khandelwal unopposed as the new state BJP chief was an example of the party's discipline. He said that the preparations to elect the new state BJP chief were completed, and many contenders were supposed to file their nomination papers for the post. He said that it was assumed that the new BJP chief would be finalised through voting only. "However, when Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan visited the state, he informed that the high command has finalised Hemant K ...Read More >
Kolkata: On the 13th day of teachers' protest outside Bikash Bhavan, the protesting teachers split among themselves and formed a new platform. At least 2,500 protesters stood by the chief minister, as stated in a press conference by education minister Bratya Basu on Monday. Reacting to a question from media, Basu said in Titagarh, "I will trust those who have written to me expressing their faith in the chief minister."The new organisation formed was named the West Bengal Untainted Teachers Associ ...Read More >
BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court on Friday quashed two hate speech cases registered against former chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Basavaraj Bommai for his speech at a protest rally in November last year that accused the state's Waqf Board of grabbing farm land in the state. Justice SR Krishna Kumar quashed the cases against the Haveri Lok Sabha MP, noting that his comments at the did not constitute the offence of promoting enmity between two groups for which he had been booked under Section 196(1)(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The judge said the allegations ag ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 2 (ANI): As political tensions rise ahead of the upcoming Bihar elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Sanjay Yadav hit back at claims that his party brought 'jungle raj' to the state. Yadav taunted that once Nitish Kumar's party is out of power or he is removed, the NDA will likely label his rule as 'jungle raj' as well. He questioned the electoral performance of both Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, suggesting that their claims are hollow without popular support. Yadav accused the NDA of hypocrisy, pointing out that many ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): BJP MP Gulam Ali Khatana, who was part of the all-party parliamentary delegation to Europe, said that during their recently conclued visit they successfully communicated India's development story and its resolute stand against terrorism, particularly emanating from Pakistan. Highlighting the delegation's key discussions during the tour, Khatana told ANI, 'We discussed how we dismantled the terrorism factory in Pakistan by responding... We also talked about tourism infrastructure, G20 Summit, and projects like the six-lane roads, bridges, solar initiatives, our ...Read More >
New Delhi: A day after Congress MP Shashi Tharoor shared a cryptic post signalling strained ties within the party, fellow Congress MP Manickam Tagore took a a pointed swipe at the Thiruvananthapuram MP, saying that "even a free bird must watch the skies." Tagore's remarks came after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's veiled jibe at Tharoor, in which he said, "Some people say Modi first, country later." Shortly after, Tharoor posted on X a photo of a bird with the caption, "Don't ask permission to fly. The wings are yours. And the sky belongs to no one." Responding to this, Tagore wrote o ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: The election for the state president of BJP and national council members from Odisha scheduled on July 1 has been postponed after the stampede at Gundicha Temple in Puri which claimed three lives on Sunday. State election officer and MP Pratap Sarangi informed that a new date for election will be fixed after discussion with the central leadership. The election process was started on Sunday after a notification was issued at 11 am as per the directive of national election officer K Laxman. A provisional voters list was released. After reviewing various objections and complaints, ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 1 (ANI): Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma urged everyone, including the media, to refrain from revealing the identity of the victim of the alleged gangrape case which took place inside the campus of the South Calcutta Law College on social media or anywhere else. Manoj Kumar Verma said, 'The incident that took place at South Calcutta Law College is being investigated. This is a very sensitive case, and I do not want to reveal the details of the investigation at the moment. In less than 12 hours, three people were arrested. Later, another person ...Read More >
Shimla, Jul 7 (PTI) After the Congress accused Kangana of ignoring her constituency, Lok Sabha MP from Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, on Monday hit out and said that they have failed the people of Himachal Pradesh. Ranaut visited the disaster-hit Pangloor village of Sainj panchayat in the Gohar area of Nachan assembly segment in Mandi district, where nine members of two families were washed away. Also Read | Bodoland Lottery Result Today, July 07, 2025: Assam State Lottery Sambad Monday Lucky Draw Results Declared, Check Winners List With Ticket Numbers. She said people across the state were unhapp ...Read More >
Bhopal, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) A day after Hemant Khandelwal (60), former MP and sitting MLA from Betul, emerged as the sole nominee for the Madhya Pradesh BJP unit chief, an official announcement about his elevation to the post will be announced on Wednesday. A meeting of the 379-member electoral college from the state, including 163 MLAs, 29 MPs, district BJP presidents, and select office-bearers, is scheduled for Wednesday morning to make the official announcement. After the formal announcement, Khandelwal will take over as the state BJP president from his predecessor -- Khajuraho MP, V.D ...Read More >