Politics

BJP working president JP Nadda was responding to allegations made by Sonia Gandhi that the government used Israeli software for snooping on activists and journalists through WhatsApp.

A purported audio of Yediyurappa expressing anguish against party leaders over their opposition to giving tickets to disqualified Congress-JD(S) MLAs for the December 5 bypolls has surfaced.

The DMK has alleged Minister SP Velumani had awarded about 350 contracts worth several crores of rupees related to corporations and municipalities of the state to firms run by his close aides between 2014 and 2018.

Both the BJP and the Shiv Sena, alliance partners in Maharashtra, have been playing hardball with each other over the chief minister's chair and government formation in the state.

In the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has 105 MLAs and is supported by one Independent legislator.

Addressing a press briefing, the Manipur chief minister said that a case has been registered at Imphal police station here against Yambem Biren and Narengbam Samarjit Singh for waging war against the State.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led party is currently locked in a bitter tussle with the ally BJP over sharing of power in the next government since October 24, when poll results were announced.

The BJP and the Sena, with 105 and 56 seats, respectively, in the new Assembly, are locked in a bitter tug of war over sharing of power in Maharashtra.

Saudi Arabia is India's second-largest supplier of crude oil and New Delhi is keen to expand this partnership beyond the buyer-seller relationship into a strategic one with cross investments.

Asked about the delay in the formation of government in Maharashtra despite the BJP-Sena alliance, Sanjay Raut had said that 'there was no Dushyant in Maharashtra' whose father is in the jail.

BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain told reporters that the opposition's "frustration" over the visit of European Union MPs to Kashmir is borne out of the failure of its "propaganda about the situation" there.

While BJP leaders, who keep threatening to overthrow the government at the next possible opportunity, have been put on a back foot, dissent within the Congress is also likely to remain buried for a while.

The party leaders said that they had apprised Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of the situation, but there was no response from the party so far.

The delegation of European Parliamentarians will travel to J&K on Tuesday, nearly three months after the state's special status under Article 370 was abolished and it was divided into two Union Territories.

The SAD had contested the 2019 Haryana Assembly polls in alliance with Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), although Badal's party was is in alliance with BJP in Punjab and a partner of NDA at the Centre.

In 2013, Ajay Chautala was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a special CBI court on charges of illegally recruiting over 3,000 teachers by using forged documents.