CHANDIGARH: Politics is truly a delightful game. But at times it makes me wonder why my partner
never shares the blame when the two of us do blunder. As the Bengal Assembly election is nearing
there seems a competition between the politicians to justify “yours murders are bad than ours.”

LUCKNOW: The Janata Dal (United) has decided to contest the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls independently.
JD(U) national General Secretary K.C. Tyagi has been entrusted the responsibility of strengthening the party organization ahead of the assembly elections next year.

LUCKNOW: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from the Meerapur Assembly seat in Muzaffarnagar, Avtar Singh Bhadana, has announced his resignation from the party protesting against the Centre's stand on the three farm laws.

NEW DELHI: Farmer leaders under the ageis of Samyukta Kisan Morcha protesting against the three Central farm laws said on Tuesday that farmers of 32 unions from Punjab were following the routes for the tractor rally defined by the Delhi Police and they did not break the law and order.

CHANDIGARH: Punjabi film actor Deep Sidhu has emerged villain of farmers protest in Delhi as he allegedly instigated the mob and led them to Red Fort where miscreants hoisted flag and clashed with police.

GURUGRAM: Over 300 tractors, SUV vehicles and motorcycles clogged the Delhi-Jaipur expressway (NH-48) near the NSG campus on Tuesday as hundreds of farmers from different states protesting against the Centre's new farm laws streamed into Gurugram on the occasion of the 72nd Republic Day.

NEW DELHI: In unexpected developments, hundreds of protesting farmers swarmed the historic Red Fort on Tuesday as their 'Kisan Gantantra Parade' turned violent at several places in the national capital.

PATIALA(Punjab): Asserting that his heart was with the farmers amid the Republic Day celebrations, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Tuesday said the Centre had deliberately kept Punjab out of the high-powered committee initially as they knew that the voices of protest would rise from here.

AZAMGARH(Uttar Pradesh): The Samajwadi Party has purchased a 4,374 square metre plot in Azamgarh to set up the office for its national president Akhilesh Yadav, who also represents the Azamgarh parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha.

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH:Congress is mulling all options to dislodge the Haryana government led by Manohar Lal Khattar, which is surviving on the support of the JJP and Independents in the assembly.

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Surendra Singh has once again targeted West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said she hails from a 'demon culture' and her DNA is 'defective'.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India engaged in a heated debate, filled with accusations against each other, over deteriorating minority rights in each other's countries at the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

CHANDIGARH: Even as he termed their Republic Day Tractor Rally a testimony to the celebration of the Indian Republic and its Constitutional ethos, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday appealed to the farmers to ensure that the event remains peaceful, just as their anti-Farm Law protests have been so far, while urging the Centre once again to heed the troubled voice of the farming community in the true spirit of the Indian Republic.

Thiruvananthapuram: Former Kerala Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Oommen Chandy has said that the LDF government recommending a CBI inquiry against him and five other leaders in the solar sex scandal case is a clear case of political vendetta and added that he and his party colleagues are not afraid of the inquiry.

GUWAHATI: The Congress on Sunday accused the BJP of trying to destroy the "liberal Assamese identity" through various designs and schemes, including the Citizenship Amendment Act and Hindutva politics.

BENGALURU: About 25,000 farmers from across Karnataka would lead a protest rally on Tuesday to Bengaluru from Nelamangla on the city's outskirts in support of their counterparts' tractor rally to New Delhi against the three farmers' laws, said state's farmers leader K. Chandrashekar on Sunday.

CHANDIGARH: Ridiculing the brazen lies of AAP, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Sunday said the non-evidence shared by the party to support their baseless allegations against him had shown the extent of their desperation and had exposed the shocking levels of deceit to which they had stooped in the pursuit of their politically motivated agenda.

CHANDIGARH: Urging the central government to consider all martyred 162 farmers for ex-gratia benefits, the Punjab Cultural Council (PCC) has written to the union agricultural minister to repeal black farmer laws forthwith thereby accord due honour to the 'Anndatas' who have given their prime for ensuring food security for the nation. Besides, the PCC has also asked the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to give personal intervention thereby helping the farmers at Delhi borders with proactive support.

CHANDIGARH: The High Powered Committee's minutes clearly show that the three contentious farm bills were never brought up or discussed in "any meeting" with the Government of Punjab or with any Punjab minister.

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) President Sunil Jakhar has said that centre by failing to invite farmers at the Republic Day parade has lost a golden opportunity to break the stalemate with them over the contentious agri laws. He also adviced the Prime Minister to invite that courageous old lady to be the Chief Guest on the R-Day parade who had lost her son while defending the nation's territory, and is still fighting along with the farmers to save the constitution at Delhi borders alongwith her grandchild.

RANCHI: Jailed Rashtriya Janata Dal president and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad,73, was on Saturday evening shifted to New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for treatment.

CHANDIGARH: Reacting to the failure of the 11th round of meeting between the farmers and the centre government, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government was failing instead of resolving the issues of the farmers.

NEW DELHI: This tripping over each other to pay homage to Subhas Bose is mere hypocrisy, says Ashish Ray, the London based author who wrote the book, Laid to Rest, which comprehensively and with documentary evidence establishes the circumstances of Subhas Boses death (on 18 August 1945 in Taipei following a plane crash), cremation and transportation and preservation of his mortal remains in Tokyo.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot has said that the BJP-RSS combine is "destroying" Indian democracy through wrong policies and administrative measures.

AMARAVATI: Actor-politician and Janasena party founder Pawan Kalyan on Friday donated Rs 30 lakh for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Kalyan handed over the cheque to Andhra Pradesh RSS chief Bharatiji, along with another Rs 11,000 donation arranged by the actor's personal staff.

NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on Friday witnessed some heated exchange of words among Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, senior leader Anand Sharma and several other dissenters over internal elections, party sources said.

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Congress on Friday held protests in all the districts and different cities demanding the arrest of Republic TV Editor in Chief Arnab Goswami for "treason" under the Official Secrets Act, 1923, party leaders said here.

MUMBAI: Almost all non-NDA parties have announced plans to intensify the stir against the three new farm laws and participate in the farmers' long march in Mumbai on January 25 and the massive farmers' agitation in New Delhi scheduled for January 26, top leaders said here on Friday.

MUMBAI: In a surprise development a Mumbai-based woman, who had levelled sensational allegations of rape against Maharashtra Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde, has withdrawn her complaint, officials said here on Friday.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain three separate pleas by the Uttar Pradesh government against the bail granted to Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, his wife and son for allegedly forging birth certificates.

CHANDIGARH: Prominent farmer leader of Punjab, President of Chandigarh State Unit of All India Jatt Mahasabha and National Delegate of Mahasabha S. Rajinder Singh Badheri has said that the present Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi is working to implement the hidden agenda of not only the BJP but also the RSS and Jana Sangh in the country. Their main task now seems to be to separate Sikhs and Muslims from India but Sikhs and Muslims will not allow such moves to succeed.

CHANDIGARH: With an RTI response exposing the lie of the Centre’s claim on the Farm Laws having been approved by the high-powered committee on agricultural reforms, Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said it was now obvious that the Akalis and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had been spreading a carnage of lies at the behest of the BJP-led Government of India, with whom the two parties were working in collusion to damage the interests of the farmers.

AGARTALA: The opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLAs on Wednesday staged a protest for the first time after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in Tripura in 2018. The left party staged the protest against the attacks on opposition parties, MLAs, MPs and other leaders.

CHANDIGARH: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) targeted Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh over the ongoing mining mafia in Punjab, stating that it was only under the patronage of Captain that the mining mafia was plundering Punjab's wealth and filling its coffers; while the former sitting in his royal farmhouse, was busy spending time with foreign friends. In a joint statement issued from the party headquarters, senior leader of the party and the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Punjab Legislative Assembly Harpal Singh Cheema and advocate Dinesh Chadha said that instead of declining, the mining mafia in Punjab was growing rapidly.

CHANDIGARH: Sikh farmer leader and All India Jatt Mahasabha's Chandigarh state president and national delegate S. Rajinder Singh Badheri has warned the Union Government to refrain from unnecessarily harassing Sikh farmers and Sikh youth to suppress the peasant movement.