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Amit Shah Highlights BJP’s Major Achievements: Abolition of Article 370, Ram Mandir, CAA Implementation

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Amit Shah Highlights BJP's Major Achievements: Abolition of Article 370, Ram Mandir, CAA Implementation

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that the people gave BJP full majority in 2014 and 2019 election, and they used that to abolish Article 370, build Ram Mandir, implement CAA and give 33 per cent reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies. Addressing the Vijay Sankalp Mahasammelan here today, Amit Shah said, “You gave us full majority in 2014 and 2019, we used the majority to abolish 370, build the temple at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi, implement CAA and give 33% reservation to women in Lok…

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Amit Shah Takes a Dig at Rahul Gandhi’s Kashmir Statement: ‘Stone Throwers Have Disappeared’

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Amit Shah Takes a Dig at Rahul Gandhi's Kashmir Statement: 'Stone Throwers Have Disappeared'

Amit Shah said Mufti and ‘Rahul Baba’ used to predict bloodbath in Kashmir if the special status was removed. Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday evening took potshots at PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for predicting turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir over the removal of Article 370, saying no one has the guts to throw stones in the union territory now. He took the jibe at a roadshow in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. Amit Shah said Mufti and ‘Rahul Baba’ used to predict bloodbath in Jammu and Kashmir…

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SC Directs ECI to Investigate Claims of BJP’s Additional Votes in EVMs During Mock Polls

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SC Directs ECI to Investigate Claims of BJP's Additional Votes in EVMs During Mock Polls

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has instructed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to investigate allegations made by advocate Prashant Bhushan regarding four EVMs allegedly recording an extra vote for the BJP during a mock poll in Kasaragod, Kerala. The directive came from a bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta while reviewing a report on the EVM issue during hearings on petitions seeking comprehensive verification of votes cast via EVMs with Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), as reported by Live Law. The Supreme Court emphasised the importance…

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Mumbai Sizzles Under Brutal Heatwave, Temperatures May Soar to Record Highs!

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Mumbai Sizzles Under Brutal Heatwave, Temperatures May Soar to Record Highs!

Mumbai Sizzles Under Brutal Heatwave, Temperatures May Soar to Record Highs! Mumbai: While the heatwave warning was expected to remain in place until Tuesday, the IMD has now upgraded the same to a severe alert. (Express photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee) Mumbai recorded the hottest night of the year on Monday, with a temperature of 27.8 degrees Celsius. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has now declared an orange ‘severe heatwave’ in the city and its neighbouring districts of Thane and Raigad and is expecting a rise in mercury up to 39…

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Tragic Incident in UP’s Bahraich: Muslim Man Beaten to Death While Returning Home after Taraweeh Prayers

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Tragic Incident in UP's Bahraich: Muslim Man Beaten to Death While Returning Home after Taraweeh Prayers

Bahraich: A 35-year-old Muslim man, Wakil Ahmed, was fatally beaten on his way home after Taraweeh prayers around 11pm on Monday in Bahraich City, Uttar Pradesh, Siasat.com reported. The gruesome incident has incited outrage in the local community, a video of the incident was posted by Hate Dectector. Videos of the incident aftermath, showing Ahmed’s naked body with severe wounds, are circulating on social media platforms. In response to the appalling killing, the Bahraich police have initiated an investigation and assured swift justice for the perpetrators. Ahmed, who operated a…

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Tarpaulin Turbans for Mosques: A Colorful Controversy in UP

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Tarpaulin Turbans for Mosques: A Colorful Controversy in UP

Lucknow: For the last 6-7 years, it has become new normal for the mosques in UP to be covered with tarpaulin sheets ahead of Holi festival. This, according to authorities, helps to maintain law and order situation and avert any attempt by miscreants to incite communal tension by throwing colours on the places of Islamic faith. Since the Yogi Adithyanath government came to power, this practise has been in place. Like previous years, this year also, the mosques on the Ram Baraat route in Bareilly and the Laat Saheb procession…

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Legal Blow: Allahabad HC Rules UP Madarsa Education Act 2004 Unconstitutional

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Legal Blow: Allahabad HC Rules UP Madarsa Education Act 2004 Unconstitutional

The ruling comes months after the state government decided to survey the Islamic education institutions in the state Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Friday declared the Uttar Pradesh Board of Madarsa Education Act, 2004, as ‘unconstitutional’ and directed the state government to accommodate students studying in Madarsas in other schools. A division bench of justice Vivek Chaudhary and justice Subhash Vidyarthi passed the order on a petition filed by one Anshuman Singh Rathore challenging the constitutional validity of the Act and certain provisions of the…

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Washington Throws Weight Behind India: China’s Arunachal Gambit Backfires

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Washington Throws Weight Behind India: China's Arunachal Gambit Backfires

Joe Biden administration said it recognises Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory and strongly opposes any unilateral attempts by China. China, under Xi Jinping, has gone downhill economically as well as politically with its BRI brand losing sheen by the day. The United States said it recognises Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory and strongly opposes any unilateral attempts by China to advance its territorial claims across the Line of Actual Control. Days after the Chinese military reiterated its claim over Arunachal Pradesh following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit there, state department…

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Supreme Court Sets March 19 to Hear Pleas Seeking Stay on CAA Rules

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Supreme Court Sets March 19 to Hear Pleas Seeking Stay on CAA Rules

Over two hundred petitions, filed in the top court since 2019, have challenged various provisions of the Citizenship Amendment Act. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear pleas seeking a stay of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 on March 19. Senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned the issue before Chief Justice DY Chandrachud who said that the matter will be listed next week. A clutch of over two hundred connected petitions, filed in the top court since 2019, have challenged various CAA provisions. The law aims to fast-track citizenship to…

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CAA Non-Negotiable, Opposition Criticism Mere Formality: Amit Shah

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CAA Non-Negotiable, Opposition Criticism Mere Formality: Amit Shah

The Union home ministry on Tuesday launched an online portal after announcing implementation CAA just weeks before general elections. Union home minister Amit Shah asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will never be taken back and the BJP-led government will never compromise with it. “This is our sovereign right to ensure Indian citizenship in our country, we will never compromise on it and CAA will never be taken back,” the senior BJP leader said in an interview with ANI. The rules of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA,…

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