Politics

Amit Shah said that in Mahabharata, Babruvahan or Ghatotkach were from the Northeast. Arjun had married Chitrangada in Manipur, Sri Krishna's grandson also got married in the Northeast.

Addressing an election rally in Rohtak, PM Modi said the government has taken several important decisions during this period, including for those in the farm sector and for the national security.

Modi, who also laid the foundation stone for the Metro Bhavan, said there is a need to create systems to address the concerns of mobility, connectivity, productivity, safety and sustainability in our cities.

The Andhra Pradesh Police is on a lookout for former lawmakers Chintamaneni Prabhakar and Kuna Ravi Kumar. Some other ex-TDP MLAs, including former speaker Kodela Siva Prasad Rao, are also being probed.

This (NRC implementation) is nothing but an attempt to divert the attention of the people from the ongoing economic crisis in the country, she added.

Ghulam Nabi Azad said there is no telephone or Internet facility, people are not allowed to meet each other and leaders who are outside Jammu and Kashmir are not allowed to visit their home state.

Participating in an interactive session with Delhi University students organised by his party's student wing NSUI, he claimed that the government 'specialised' only in sloganeering.

Murli Manohar Joshi made the remarks here as he and other leaders paid tributes to senior Congress leader Jaipal Reddy, who passed away in July.

A farmer said most of the bad loans are in national banks. Hence, waiving interest and penalty of crop loans taken from cooperative banks would not help too many farmers.

Party insiders claimed that the suggestion came from political expert Prashant Kishor as he felt that the party’s work should be highlighted to the masses instead of an emphasis on the leaders.

Priyanka Gandhi has been immersed in district-wise meetings at grass-root levels ever since the party registered its worst performance in the recent general election and an announcement on a new team of the UP Congress is expected shortly.

Prashant Kishor, who joined JDU in September last year, said the exercise has been misunderstood as solution for a complex solution.

Ranajagjitsinh Patil, a former Maharashtra minister, is the son of Padmasinh Patil, a close aide of Pawar. Padmasinh Patil's sister is married to Pawar's nephew and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.

The CPI(M) general secretary alleged that 'hordes' of uniformed policemen illegally entered the party office, arrested former MLAs and CPI(M) leaders, Amra Ram and Pema Ram, while scores of others were dragged out.

BJP working president J P Nadda said common workers who have put posters (on walls), held flags and sold tea have reached to the top now and accused other political parties of laying their foundations on politics of family and dynasty.

The number of cases of frauds reported by banks saw a jump of 15 per cent year-on-year basis in 2018-19, with the amount involved increasing by 73.8 per cent in the year, the Reserve Bank of India's annual report showed.