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New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): The Central government will convene an all-party meeting on July 19, ahead of the Monsoon Session 2025, said Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday. Rijiju said, "The central government called an all-party meeting on July 19 regarding the monsoon session of Parliament. The monsoon session of Parliament is starting from July 21 and will run till August 21." Also Read | Congress vs BJP Over Farmers' Deaths: LoP Rahul Gandhi Questions Mahara ...Read More >
Patna: The setting was modest, but the signal was loud. A hall full of men wearing skullcaps, some in faded kurtas, others clutching Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flags, gathered in Patna's Atal Auditorium. The party's state president and deputy chief minister stood watching as dozens of Pasmanda Muslims joined the saffron party. There were no slogans and no fireworks. Just a quiet and strategic move with deep roots and deeper implications. These were not Ashraf (elite) Muslims - who include Sye ...Read More >
Patna: The Bihar BJP in its working committee meeting on Wednesday passed a two-page resolution highlighting PM Narendra Modi govt's achievements in the last 11 years and against the "appeasement politics" of the opposition Grand Alliance besides RJD led by Lalu Prasad for opposing the Waqf (Amendment) Act in the country.Around 1,200 BJP leaders and office-bearers, including all party MPs, MLAs and MLCs, in the presence of defence minister Rajnath Singh, also passed a censure motion against Lalu ...Read More >
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Chants of "Bam Bam Bhole" and "Har Har Mahadev" echoed through Kashmir valley Wednesday as the first convoy of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims crossed Qazigund-Banihal tunnel, marking the start of the annual Himalayan pilgrimage under unprecedented security.Garlanded with flowers and greeted with traditional Kashmiri hospitality, the pilgrims -- part of a 5,892-strong batch -- were flagged off from the Jammu base camp at Bhagwati Nagar early morning by lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha. A ...Read More >
Patna, Jul 2 (PTI) The BJP's Bihar unit on Wednesday passed a resolution criticising the "appeasement politics" of the Mahagathbandhan helmed by Lalu Prasad's RJD, which has been opposing the Waqf (Amendment) Act that came into force in April. At the state executive meeting here, held in the presence of Defence Minister and former national president Rajnath Singh, the party passed a two-page political resolution, besides a 'Vijay Sankalp Prastav' that declared "Lalu (Prasad) and his allies cann ...Read More >
Patna, Jul 2 (PTI) BJP's Bihar unit on Wednesday passed a resolution criticising the "appeasement politics" of Mahagathbandhan helmed by Lalu Prasad's RJD, which has been opposing the Waqf Act. At the state executive meeting here, held in the presence of Defence Minister and former national president Rajnath Singh, the party passed a two-page political resolution, besides a 'Vijay Sankalp Prastav' that declared "Lalu (Prasad) and his allies cannot defeat us" in Assembly polls due later this yea ...Read More >
Patna, Jul 2 (PTI) BJP's Bihar unit on Wednesday passed a resolution criticising the "appeasement politics" of Mahagathbandhan helmed by Lalu Prasad's RJD, which has been opposing the Waqf Act. At the state executive meeting here, held in the presence of Defence Minister and former national president Rajnath Singh, the party passed a two-page political resolution, besides a 'Vijay Sankalp Prastav' that declared "Lalu (Prasad) and his allies cannot defeat us" in Assembly polls due later this yea ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 2 (PTI) RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's remarks about "throwing the amended Waqf Act in dustbin" was an attempt to mislead people of Bihar ahead of assembly polls there, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal said on Wednesday. "There is a competition between Tejashwi and Owaisi. They treat Muslims as vote bank," Pal, chairman of joint parliamentary committee on Waqf (Amendment) Bill, told reporters in Mumbai. Tejashwi had said that his Mahagathbandhan bloc, if elected to power in Bihar, will throw the ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday issued notice to the state and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board on a petition filed by five mosques against police crackdown on loudspeakers.Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Milind Sathaye directed that the police authorities file a reply along with relevant records and posted the next hearing for July 9. Senior advocate Yusuf Muchhala and advocate Mubin Solkar, representing the petitioners, argued that action was being taken only against mosques.The petiti ...Read More >
Patna, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, on Tuesday, reacted to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders who recently called him "Namazwadi" and "Maulana" following his large public rally against the Waqf Act in Patna's Gandhi Maidan, which was attended by lakhs of people. While addressing the media persons here, Tejashwi Yadav said: "The way people supported us in the protest against the Waqf Act, has rattled the B ...Read More >
Bihar Election 2025: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on July 1 launched a scathing attack on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav over his remarks on the Waqf Act, calling him a 'Maulana - a Muslim cleric. The saffron party accused the former deputy chief sister of polarising the society on communal lines, sensing opposition Mahagathbandhan's 'imminent' defeat in the assembly polls due later this year. The BJP was responding to Yadav's earlier assertion that the opposition grand alliance in Bihar will c ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The BJP on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav over his remarks on the Waqf Act, calling him a "Maulana" and accusing him of polarising the society in Bihar on communal lines sensing opposition Mahagathbandhan's "imminent" defeat in the assembly polls due later this year. Doubling down on Yadav's assertion that the opposition grand alliance in Bihar will consign the Waqf Act to the dustbin if voted to power, BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bha ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 1 (UNI) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia today accused Bihar's former Deputy CM and Leader of Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav of "undermining" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's efforts to uplift backward classes, Dalits, and women and said that Rashtriya Janata Dal's sole objective is the "imposition of Sharia law in India, and to empower only one community." "Tejashwi Yadav's party, RJD, is destroying the idea of empowering these marginalized sections. W ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): BJP National Spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia hit out at the Rashtriya Janata Dal and alleged that RJD and Tejashwi Yadav were destroying Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of empowering backwards classes, Dalits, and women and their thought was against the Constitution and their purpose was to implement Sharia Law. Gaurav Bhatia said, 'Those who call themselves 'samajwadi' (socialists) in Bihar, their true face is 'namazwazi'. These 'namazwadi' do not want Babasaheb ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 1 (PTI) The BJP on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav over his remarks on the Waqf Act, calling him a "Maulana" and accusing him of trying to polarise the society in Bihar on communal lines sensing opposition Magathbandhan's "imminent" defeat in assembly polls scheduled later this year. Yadav on Sunday claimed that the ruling NDA in Bihar was "on its way out," and the new government in the state led by the opposition alliance will "consign to the dust ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia launched a scathing attack on RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav during a Press conference held at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi accusing him of promoting Sharia law and undermining the Constitution. Bhatia criticised Yadav's remarks on the Waqf Amendment Act and accused him and his party of disrespecting the Constitution and promoting communal politics. Addressing the media, Bhatia said, "Those in B ...Read More >
Pune: Two men on a bike robbed two women travelling in a private van of their ornaments worth Rs1.5 lakh and one of them sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl, who was also in the vehicle that had halted in front of a tea stall on the outskirts of Swami Chincholi village near Bhigwan on Pune-Solapur highway around 4.15am on Monday.Superintendent of police (Pune Rural) Sandeep Singh Gill said, "A case of robbery, rape, abduction and criminal intimidation has been registered with the Daund police. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A day after RJD neta Tejashwi Yadav asserted that his bloc, if elected in Bihar, will throw the amended waqf Act in the dustbin, BJP Sunday launched an attack on the "INDI alliance", accusing it of disrespecting Parliament, misusing minority provisions to dilute SC/ST/OBC reservations, and defending religious laws over civil ones.BJP spokesman Sudhanshu Trivedi specifically targeted Yadav for his remarks, drawing parallels between RJD's stance and Sharia-leaning regimes, and accusing ...Read More >
Bhopal: A search by the Meghalaya police in a flat of father-in-law of Shalom James, an Indore-based property dealer arrested on charges of destroying evidence in the killing of Raja Raghuvamsi allegedly by his wife Sonam during their honeymoon in Shillong last month, in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, has yielded a laptop, a pen drive, jewelry and incriminating documents, believed to be belonging to the couple, sources said on Monday. The search was conducted in the flat of Manoj Gupta, father-in-la ...Read More >
Patna: BJP on Monday reiterated its commitment to equality, dialogue and development while working for the interest of Pasmanda Muslim community in the state. Addressing the members of Pasmanda Muslim community at the party headquarters here, BJP state president Dilip Kumar Jaiswal accused the RJD-Congress of always doing politics in the name of Muslims, but making no real efforts to uplift the Pasmanda Muslims in Bihar. Jaiswal also assured them of political representation in the state. A large ...Read More >
New Delhi: With the completion of eight years, implementing the goods and services tax (GST) -- one of the country's biggest tax reforms, India has broken all the stereotypes by showcasing a perfect balance between Centre and state administrations and coming together to make decisions and resolve issues as well. Back on July 1, 2017, the GST was rolled out with a promise that the country will bring 'one nation, one tax' by merging various indirect taxes under one umbrella. As of today, it is pa ...Read More >
Bihar unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday (June 30, 2025) organised a joining ceremony of Pasmanda community, a day after Muslims organisation led by Imarat-e-Shariah held a rally at Patna's Gandhi Maidan to protest against Waqf Act. Attacking the Opposition party, BJP state president Dilip Jaiswal said that in Bihar, politics has always been done in the name of Muslims, but no real efforts were ever made to uplift the Pasmanda Muslims. Bihar begins Special Intensive Revision of ele ...Read More >
Patna: A fresh political confrontation erupted on Monday over RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav's controversial remark that he would throw the new waqf law "into the dustbin" if elected to power in Bihar.The BJP strongly criticised the statement, accusing the RJD-Congress-Left alliance of attempting to stir Muslim sentiments. In response, Tejashwi and his allies vowed to intensify their opposition to what they described as the BJP's "communal agenda".BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi accused Tej ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 30 (PTI) The authorities of the South Calcutta Law College, where a student was allegedly by an alumnus and two of her seniors, decided to suspend classes for all students for an indefinite period, a notification issued on Monday said. The decision was taken by the governing body of the college. Also Read | Waqf Act Controversy: RJD Leader Tejashwi Yadav Call for 'Throwing Waqf Act in Dustbin' Sparks Political Storm, Parties Trade Barbs. "All BA LLB and LLM (General and Honours) ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 30 (PTI) Tribal communities in Great Nicobar are not opposed to development but lack sufficient information about a proposed mega infrastructure project on the island, National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) member Asha Lakra has said. The project, titled Holistic Development of Great Nicobar, involves the construction of a transshipment port, an international airport, a township and a power plant over more than 160 square km of land. This includes around 130 square km of ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): In a swift and decisive operation, the Indian Navy's stealth frigate INS Tabar responded to a distress call from the Panamanian-flagged tanker MT Yi Cheng 6 in the Gulf of Oman on June 29. The vessel, carrying 14 Indian crew members and transiting from Kandla, India, to Shinas, Oman, reported a major fire in its engine room, resulting in a complete power failure. Also Read | Waqf Act Controversy: RJD Leader Tejashwi Yadav Call for 'Throwing Waqf Act in Dustbin ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 30: A political storm has ensued over the stirring remarks made by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, at the "Save Waqf, Save Constitution" rally in Patna, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and INDIA bloc leaders taking potshots at each other over 'using' the Waqf reforms as a ploy to win votes. The BJP called it a brazen attempt by the RJD-Congress-Left combine to 'influence' the election mood in the poll-bound state by fanning anti-Muslim sentiments, while the latter vowed to step up t ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A political storm has ensued over the stirring remarks made by RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, at the "Save Waqf, Save Constitution" rally in Patna, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and INDIA bloc leaders taking potshots at each other over 'using' the Waqf reforms as a ploy to win votes. The BJP called it a brazen attempt by the RJD-Congress-Left combine to 'influence' the election mood in the poll-bound state by fanning anti-Muslim sentiments, while the latter v ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Taking strong exception to INDIA bloc's fresh opposition to Waqf reforms, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Monday said that the current government won't allow a repeat of the Emergency era and will ensure that the nation is governed by laws, as enshrined in the Constitution. Addressing a Press conference at the party HQs, the BJP's RS MP tore into the harmful 'designs and dreams' of the INDIA bloc, accusing it of introducing Shar ...Read More >
PATNA: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday claimed that the ruling NDA in Bihar was "on its way out", and the new government in the state led by the Mahagathbandhan will "consign to dustbin" the Waqf Act brought by the Narendra Modi dispensation at the Centre. He addressed a 'Save Waqf, Save Constitution' rally, held at the historical Gandhi Maidan here, where leaders from various political parties had turned up, wearing black bands as a mark of protest. Tejashwi's remarks were aimed at rallyin ...Read More >
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