India
BJP deceiving people of Assam: Congress
Reacting to Home Minister Amit Shah’s "flood free Assam" remarks, senior Assam Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi accused the BJP government in the state of "deceiving the people" of Assam.
East India
Mamata Banerjee questions EC decision to conduct Bengal polls in 8 phases
West Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has questioned the Election Commission's decision to conduct the West Bengal Assembly Election in eight phases.
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India
Poll dates for Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry announced
The Election Commission has announced the poll schedule for upcoming state assembly elections Friday. The elections are due for West Bengal, Assam, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
India
Gets bail in all cases, Nodeep Kaur to walk out of prison
Dalit labour activist Nodeep Kaur was granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday in the third FIR registered against her.
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East India
Campaign in West Bengal urging not to vote for BJP
However, there is one other campaign doing the rounds in Bengal, most visibly on social media so far - the ‘No Vote to BJP’ campaign. But what stands out with regard to this particular campaign is that in essence it is purely a people’s campaign, and does not bear any political affiliations.
India
“Let them die”, Delhi police told Alhind hospital doctor who treated pogrom victims
Ambulances were stopped by police and Hindutva groups sieging the Muslim locality for days. Doctor Miraj at Alhind hospital speaks to Maktoob about the hostility and helplessness during the pogrom.
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India
India’s coronavirus recovery rate touches 97.21%
The daily rise in coronavirus infections in India was recorded above 15,000 after nearly a month taking the country's total tally of COVID-19 cases to 1,10,46,914, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.
Central India
‘Institutional killing of a seven-time tribal MP’: Demands raised to probe death of Delkar
Political parties including Congress have demanded an investigation into the role of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the death of Mohan Sanjibhai Delkar, the seven-time Parliament member from Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
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India
“This time 40 lakh tractors instead of 4 lakh”: Rakesh Tikait warns of Parliament march
"This time the call will be for parliament gherao. We will announce it and then march towards Delhi. This time 40 lakh tractors will be there instead of four lakh tractors," Tikait told protesters.
India
Gujarat civic polls: BJP sweeps, AAP, AIMIM make inroads
Even as the saffron party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained power in all six Gujarat municipal corporations — results of which were declared on Monday — Aam Admi Party (AAP) and the All-India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) who were contesting for the first time in Gujarat have made inroads in state's urban centres.
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India
‘No reason to keep 22-year-old in custody’: Disha Ravi gets bail
Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old climate activist was granted bail by a Delhi Sessions Court on Tuesday afternoon - subject to provision of two sureties of Rs 1 lakh each in connection with the "toolkit" case.
India
Farmer leader escapes unhurt as bike-borne assailants open fire
Bharatiya Kisan Union's Haryana unit General Secretary Jastej Singh Sandhu escaped unhurt Monday after two motorcycle-borne assailants opened fire at him when he was going to meet protesting farmers...
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