Days after the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) called for the immediate withdrawal of the Waqf Amendment Bill, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal reiterated the government's stand, saying that Waqf properties will remain under Waqf control and the government will not acquire any Waqf prop
Hitting out at the Nabanna Abhijan protest march, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and Bengali actress Saayoni Ghosh on Tuesday called the protestors "goons" and said that the protests look more like a picnic with the protestors taking a "cool shower" under water cannons.
Burfat argued that the so-called democratic framework in Pakistan is a facade, primarily serving the interests of the Punjabi majority and its military elite.
The BJP legislator from the Bharmour Assembly constituency in Himachal Pradesh, Dr Janak Raj, has urgently called on the authorities to take serious steps to aid the thousands of pilgrims stranded on the Manimahesh Pilgrimage trek. The trek, which reaches an altitude of over 18,500 feet abov
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], August 27: "People from prior generations took great pain for fetching the river of education to the rural folks. My mother Sharda Pawar was a member of the local board. Shankarrao More, the then chairman of the local board, called a meeting on education activitie
Ahead of the protest, called amid the ongoing row over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, police had thrown a ring of security around the West Bengal state secretariat.
A march to Nabanna has been called today by Paschim Banga Chatra Samaj and other organizations which aimed to protest the recent rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor in Kolkata.
BJP leader Nilesh N Rane on Tuesday arrived at the location where a statue of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj collapsed on Monday and called the incident "unfortunate" and demanded action against the persons at fault.
After West Bengal ADG Police (Law & Order) called the Nabanna Abhijan Rally scheduled for Tuesday illegal, BJP leader Dilip Ghosh asked what right the police have to call it legal or illegal saying that in a democratic country, anyone can protest.
Japan's Vice foreign minister Masataka Okano summoned China's acting ambassador late on Monday to lodge a "extremely serious protest," and called for measures against a recurrence, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a statement.
Additional Commissioner of Police Kolkata, Supratim Sarkar on Monday said that they have rejected an application by 'Paschimbanga Chhatro Samaj' to hold a rally called 'Nabanna Abhiyaan' on August 27.
A delegation of HPPS officers, led by SP Sandeep Bhardwaj, called on Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu here today and apprised him of their demands. The delegation thanked the Chief Minister for restoring the concessional travel facility in HRTC buses.