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Andhra: Two TDP leaders, including an MLA, shot dead by Naxals
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], Sep 23 (ANI): Two political leaders, including sitting Telegu Desam Party (TDP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Kidari Sarveswara Rao, were shot dead by Naxals in Dumbriguda Mandal of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam district on Sunday.
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Special court set up in Chennai to hear cases against MLAs, MPs
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Sep 20 (ANI): A special court was inaugurated in Chennai on Thursday to hear criminal cases pending against Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and Members of Parliament (MP).
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Gujarat Assembly hikes MLAs' salaries by Rs 45,000 a month
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Ahmadabad (Gujarat) [India]. Sep 20 (ANI): The Gujarat Assembly has passed a bill to increase the monthly salaries of the Member of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) by Rs 45,000.
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Myanmar based drug peddlers threaten to kill Tripura CM
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], Sep 19 (ANI): Tripura's former minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Ratan Chakraborty has claimed that Myanmar-based drug peddlers have hatched a plot to kill state Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb.
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Kamal Nath takes u-turn, says `30 BJP MLAs are only in contact`
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Sep 17 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath has taken a u-turn on his earlier statement that 30 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) have been lobbying to get Congress tickets for the upcoming assembly elections.
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Unemployed, frustrated youth commit rape: BJP lawmaker on Haryana rape
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], Sept 15 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and member of Haryana's legislative assembly (MLA) Uchana Kalan claimed that unemployed and frustrated youngsters commit heinous crimes like rape.
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Nun rape: Panel to examine MLA 'prostitute' remark
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Trivandrum (Kerala) [India], Sep 13 (ANI): Kerala legislative assembly Speaker P. Sreeramakrishnan on Thursday said that the ethics committee will examine "prostitute" remark made by the assembly member PC George.
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Shouldn't have used 'prostitute' word: PC George
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Trivandrum (Kerala) [India], Sep 12 (ANI): Kerala Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) PC George, who recently stoked a controversy by calling a nun "prostitute", on Wednesday, said that he shouldn't have used "such a word". The MLA, however, stood by his previous statement.
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Hyderabad: Ex-MLA arrested for human trafficking
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Sep 11 (ANI): The Hyderabad Police on Tuesday confirmed the charges against former member of the legislative assembly (MLA) Turupu Jayaprakash Reddy of obtaining passports and the United States visa in 2004 by allegedly submitting fabricated documents and tr
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Telangana assembly election: AIMIM releases first list of candidates
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Sept 11 (ANI): All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Tuesday released its first list of seven candidates for the Telangana Legislative Assembly elections.
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Former Cong MLA Jagga Reddy arrested
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Sep 11 (ANI): The Hyderabad's Market Police on Monday arrested former Congress Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Jagga Reddy under the charges of impersonation, forgery, cheating, human trafficking and Passport Act.
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Kerala nun rape: NCW summons MLA over 'prostitute' remark
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 10 (ANI): Condemning Kerala Legislative Assembly member (MLA) PC George for his "prostitute" remark, the National Commission of Women (NCW) on Monday summoned him on September 20.
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