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"It is not just territorial issue, but that of our people's rights": Forme
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Underlining that the issue of Katchatheevu Island is not just a territorial issue, Former Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Tuesday said that it is rather an issue of the rights of our people, and the ability to fish well beyond the island.
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Katchatheevu row: PM Modi sharpens attack on Congress says it "divided cou
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
PM Modi who kicked off the BJP's Lok Sabha poll campaign in Uttarakhand on Tuesday by addressing a rally in Rudrapur, a part of the Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar constituency slammed the Congress, saying that 'it can never protect the country's land'.
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AIADMK's Sellur Raju backs PM's statement on Katchatheevu island
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) over the Katchatheevu island issue, AIADMK leader Sellur K Raju backed the PM's statement, calling it "true."
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Katchatheevu island row: Debate rages ahead of LS polls as BJP demands "ap
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The decades-old issue of Katchatheevu island continued to heat up on Monday, with both Bharatiya Janata Party and the Opposition training guns at each other, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
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"Has BJP mortgaged country's security...": DMK's Kanimozhi on China border
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Coming out hard against the Bharatiya Janata Party amid the Katchatheevu island row, DMK leader Kanimozhi alleged that China has been allowed to infiltrate the country and even rename the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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"BJP has very unproductive habit of fighting historical battles": Karti Ch
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Hitting out at BJP further, he said that raking an over 50-year-old issue shows how "divorced" BJP is from the political reality in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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'Is Jaishankar disowning MEA's 2015 RTI reply?' asks Jairam Ramesh over Ka
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Jairam Ramesh asked if the "EAM" Jaishankar is disowning the reply given by MEA in 2015 when Jaishankar was serving as the 'Foreign Secretary'.
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"Shakuni like match-fixing...," BJP's Kesavan criticises Congress, DMK ove
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Calling the Katchatheevu issue a "grave historic blunder," BJP national spokesperson CR Kesavan on Monday slammed Congress and DMK for giving the Katchatheevu island in a "Shakuni-like match-fixing", adding that they betrayed Tamil interests and also undermined India's sovereignty and integr
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DMK, Congress should apologise to people for "selling" Katchatheevu to Sri
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
"You (Congress and DMK) have done a crime. You have no business to talk about it. BJP will take care of Kachhadeep. We know what to do when to do and how to do it," he said.
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Centre trying everything possible to retrieve Katchatheevu from Sri Lanka:
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai on Monday said that the Union government is trying everything possible to retrieve Katchatheevu island from Sri Lanka. He also reiterated his allegation that the island was ceded to Sri Lanka by the then-Indira Gandhi government in 1974 with the consent of
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"Congress did it, DMK hid it": BJP leader targets ruling coalition allies
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The decades-old territorial and fishing rights dispute around Katchatheevu Island is in the limelight ahead of polling in Tamil Nadu for Lok Sabha polls on April 19 with the BJP and the opposition engaged in a war of words over the issue
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"Absurd allegation": P Chidambaram refutes Centre's allegations against Co
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The Congress leader, speaking to ANI, claimed that sufferings of over 6 lakhs Tamils who were in Sri Lanka compelled the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi to acknowledge that the island belonged to the neighbouring country.
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