The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has started cracking down on social media ‘offenders’ in a big way. The Unnao police, on Sunday, lodged an FIR against eight Twitter handles and its users, including @themojostory run by senior journalist Barkha Dutt, on charges of spreading “misleading information” in connection with the recovery of the […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its dissatisfaction over the pendency of pardon plea of a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case for more than two years with the Tamil Nadu Governor. A bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao, Ajay Rastogi and Hemant Gupta asked Additional Advocate General for Tamil Nadu Balaji Srinivasan, why […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s journey as head of an elected government started on this day 20 years ago. It was a very difficult time for Gujarat, when the earthquake in Bhuj had brought death and destruction. In such a difficult situation, Narendra Modi took the reins in his hands. Since the day he took the […]
By Ashok Attri It is a well-known fact that the former international working president of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) – Shri Ashok Singhal Ji and the BJP MP as well as renowned jurist – Dr. Subramanym Swamy Ji have contributed greatly to the cause of building of Ram temple at the birth place of Lord […]
Kapila Vatsyayan, Member of Parliament, a major scholar of art, architecture, Indian classical dance and Founding Director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, passed away at the age of 92 at her home in New Delhi on Wednesday. Recipient of the Padma Vibhushan honour (2011), the scholar, who authored around 20 books […]
An in-depth look at how Bengal went from ‘Laal Salaam’ to ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the space of less than a decade. From being a fringe political party in 2013 to sweeping nearly half of the states 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, the BJP has gained ground in West Bengal, aided partly by the […]
Uttar Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA, Nand Kishore Gurjar, has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, asking him to upgrade actor Kangana Ranaut’s security to ‘Z’ plus category and to dismiss the Shiv Sena led-coalition government in Maharashtra for ‘illegally’ demolishing the actor’s office in Mumbai. The BJP MLA from the Loni Assembly […]
The BJP trained its guns on the Congress party over a tweet by Global Times, a Chinese state-affiliated media organisation, and alleged that the “love” between the dragon and the opposition party cannot be hidden. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that “Ishq” (love) and “mushk” (fragrance) between the two is evident and can’t be hidden. […]
The ‘dislike Modi’ campaign supported and sponsored by forces inimical to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone international. BJP sources say that it was observed there was a concerted effort to dislike Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ video on YouTube. It turns out that data from YouTube suggests that only 2 per cent of those dislikes […]
The BJP has suspended its leader Sanjeev Gupta, whose son Sachin Gupta is absconding after being named as an accused in the printing of duplicate NCERT books worth Rs 35 crore. While 12 people have so far been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with this case, Gupta remains at large. An FIR […]