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New Delhi: The renewed BJP-AIADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu – announced Friday evening by Home Minister Amit Shah, with ex-Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami by his side – gives the former a premade political platform, i.e., access to an established cadre and voter base before next year’s state election. How …

Chennai: The BJP has elected Nainar Nagenthiran as the President of its Tamil Nadu unit. Mr Nagendran, a three-time MLA from Tirunelveli, replaces K Annamalai in the top job and his first job will be to jumpstart the party’s fortunes in next year’s Assembly election – in a state that has …

Chennai/New Delhi: Tamil Nadu’s opposition party AIADMK and the BJP will contest the state elections together under the leadership of former chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS), Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today at a joint press conference in Chennai. The two parties were in an alliance earlier too. …

New Delhi: A popular fish market in south Delhi’s posh Chittaranjan Park neighbourhood is at the Centre of a massive political row after a viral video showed some people objecting to the sale of fish next to a temple and saying this was hurting their sentiments. The fish stalls in …

The BJP leadership in Rajasthan has suspended controversial leader Gyandev Ahuja from the party and issued a show cause notice, days after he sprinkled ‘gangajal’ at a temple in Alwar to ‘purify’ the premises after Congress leader Tikaram Jully, a Dalit, attended the temple’s consecration ceremony.Determined not to let Gyandev …

Can the Waqf Bill be another turning point in Indian history, just as the Shah Bano episode proved to be in the 1980s? Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of Shah Bano, which mandated that she be granted maintenance by her husband in accordance with the civil law of …

Jalandhar (Punjab): A blast was reported outside the residence of BJP Leader Manoranjan Kalia in Punjab’s Jalandhar. Police said that they are monitoring the CCTV and investigating whether it was a grenade attack or something else. Dhanpreet Kaur, Jalandhar Police Commissioner, told reporters, “Around 1 am, we got information of …

New Delhi: Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal has apparently had a change of heart about the Waqf Amendment Bill. After categorically saying it was against the bill ahead of its presentation in the Lok Sabha, the party, shortly before the voting in the Upper House, has tweaked its stand. In …

New Delhi: The decision of secular parties like Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United to support the contentious Waqf Amendment Bill has raised eyebrows in political circles. But at the bottom of it was BJP’s efforts to secure support on contentious issues from coalition partners, …

New Delhi: Asserting that misconceptions are being spread on the Waqf bill by some parties to shore up their vote banks, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that, through the proposed legislation, PM Narendra Modi is fulfilling the wishes of RJD chief Lalu Prasad while the opposition had failed …