Bajrang Dal:Qatar nationality for Husain win for Hindutva

On Saturday Bajrang Dal said Qatar giving nationality to painter M F Husain was a "win" for Hindutva forces and those who "insult" Hindu religion have no place in the country. "Husain's painting depicting Hindu deities in a derogatory manner and insulting the religion was not at all acceptable to us," Bajrang Dal Convener Prakash Sharma ...

Fuel price hike roll back demanded by Trinamool, DMK

On Saturday UPA ally Trinamool Congress launched street protests here to demand immediate rollback of fuel price hike, but remained non-committal on BJP's move to bring cut motions to censure the government. "Let us see the development and we will act as the situation develops," TC's Chief Whip in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandhopadhay, who led the ...

CBI:Adani group managing director arrested

On Saturday they had arrested the managing director of the Adani Group on charges of evading customs duty said by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). "We arrested Rajesh Adani for undervaluing imported naptha and furnace oil," Harsh Bahl, spokesman of the Central Bureau of Investigation said, adding the customs duty evasion amounted to about 8 ...

Against union budget, CPI-M protests in Tripura

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists Saturday organised demonstrations across Tripura, protesting against the 'deprivation of the northeastern region in the central budget'. The CPI-M and its frontal organisations, including youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), organised protest rallies across the Left-ruled northeast state. DYFI Tripura unit president Tapas Datta told IANS: 'The protest demonstrations ...

BJP President Gadkari bewails resumption of dialogue with Pakistan

Nitin Gadkari, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President has criticized the Centre for resuming dialogue with Pakistan. Gadkari said, "Our country's government has tried to resume dialogue with Pakistan, which has begun a proxy war against us, which encourages cross-border terrorism, the country where nobody listens to the government, and the dialogue has completely failed." Gadkari also slammed ...

Against Railway Budget, BJP activists protest

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists staged a protest in Jabalpur accusing Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee of ignoring their region in the Railway Budget presented by her on Wednesday. They criticised Banerjee's decision to extend the termination of Mumbai-Jabalpur Garib Rath train to Allahabad and for the cancellation of several trains having halts at Jabalpur. The protest later ...

BJP to vote against budget, Oppn walks out

All was well till Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced a proposal to hike prices of petrol and diesel. An unprecedented drama in our parliamentary history unfolded - an Opposition walkout during a budget presentation - as Mukherjee said he "proposed to restore the basic duty of 5 per cent on crude petroleum; 7.5 per cent on ...

Yet again marginal hike for Defence

Despite last year's funds not being fully utilised, India's security juggernaut has been given a marginal hike in budgetary allocations. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has allocated Rs 1,47,344 crore for defence compared to Rs 1,41,703 crore last year, an increase of barely 4 per cent. He has pared internal security expenditure from Rs 33,809 crore last ...

In new fiscal, Fiscal deficit to be reduced to 5.5 %

Work begins full swing, Party time ahead for BSP

Preparations for the proposed BSP rally are being carried out on a war-footing by various government agencies, with less than a month to go for Kanshiram's birth anniversary. The rally is scheduled to be held on March 15 at the Ramabai Ambekdar Maidan, which is spread over 51 acres on Bijnaur Road. The arrangements for the ...

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