Politics

Claiming that the BJP is insulting the people of Delhi who are the beneficiaries of the AAP government's 'pro-people policies' by calling them 'freeloaders', Manish Sisodia said BJP should apologise to the people of Delhi.

The four professors who have been accused in the posters of being behind the violence are Tapan Kumar Bihari and Prakash Chandra Sahoo of JNU besides its chief proctor Dhananjay Singh. The fourth professor is DU's Abhinav Prakash, a former JNU student.

Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia said the Delhi Police has been under the Centre for the past six years and if Shoaib Iqbal has committed any crime then he should be arrested and put in jail.

Prime Minister Modi will be on a two-day visit to Kolkata from January 11 and is scheduled to attend 150th anniversary function of Kolkata Port Trust (KOPT) on January 12, among many other scheduled programmes.

Speaking at the national training camp of Congress Sevadal in Bhopal on Wednesday, Digvijaya Singh hit out at the RSS and BJP for allegedly trying to smother people's right to freedom of speech.

The BJP won just 15 of the 58 seats in Nagpur Zilla Parishad (ZP), where the Congress bagged a handsome tally of 30.

Reacting to his attack, the State BJP unit, without clarifying on the actual the amount being released, said it believed in speaking the truth and not spreading lies.

Venkaiah Naidu also said academic endeavors and co-curricular initiatives must attain primacy in universities and not factionalism and divisive tendencies.

While talking about Kokje, who has been the Governor of Himachal Pradesh in the past, Vijayvargiya junior cited an unusual example out of his past trip to the state.

A resolution against the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) was adopted in a meeting of Delhi Congress's manifesto committee for the Assembly polls.

With Yediyurappa making it clear that 11 of the disqualified JDS-Congress MLAs who got re-elected in the December 5 bypolls on BJP tickets will be made ministers, lobbying has been on within the party for the remaining ministerial berths.

Congress was not against giving refuge and citizenship to those persecuted in Pakistan irrespective of their religion, but wanted a non-discriminatory law that applied equally to all such people, Chidambaram said.

BJP working president JP Nadda said that religion stands for wisdom to differentiate between what is good and what is not. 'It is the politics which needs religion the most,' he said.

The AIADMK leader strongly believes that the entire Muslim community is against the Edappadi government.

The Congress' Karnataka unit in a series of tweets also questioned the Prime Minister about not conferring the 'Bharat Ratna' on Shivakumara Swamiji of Siddaganga Math, who passed away last year at the age of 111 years.

The government on December 31, raised train fares marginally by one paise to four paise per kilometer depending on the travel class. It also hiked LPG cylinder rates by Rs 19 per cylinder.