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PMAY-U houses crosses 45,000 Mark in J&K, 1,434 sanctioned in Ladakh

New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- More than 45,000 houses have been sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) and PMAY-U 2.0 in Jammu and Kashmir, the government of India informed the Lok Sab... Read More


Modi's 'Bankim Da' remark sparks row in KMC meet

Kolkata, Dec. 18 -- Heated scenes unfolded in the KMC House on Thursday after a BJP councillor accused Mayor Firhad Hakim of having once referred to a part of the city as "Mini Pakistan", triggering s... Read More


Farmers descend on Brussels to protest EU Mercosur trade deal

France, Dec. 18 -- Hundreds of tractors began rolling into the European quarter of the EU capital on Thursday morning, ahead of a high-stakes summit among European Union leaders. Convoys of farmers h... Read More


'BJP making a script': TMC over Malviya's 'sponsored fire' claim on New Town slum inferno

Kolkata, Dec. 18 -- Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shashi Panja on Thursday slammed the BJP leader and Bengal co-in-charge Amit Malviya after he alleged that the massive fire at Ghuni slum in ... Read More


Venugopal backs 'gold loot' parody song writer; slams CPI(M) action

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 18 -- AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal on Thursday expressed solidarity with G P Kunjabdulla, the lyricist of a parody song highlighting the alleged gold looting from Lord... Read More


HC has not cleared Gandhi family in N'Herald case: Vijayendra

Belagavi, Dec. 18 -- : Karnataka BJP President Vijayendra Yediyurappa on Thursday slammed the Congress party, saying the High Court has not cleared the Gandhi family on merits in the National Herald c... Read More


TMC MPs protest MGNREGA name change, accuses Centre of 'desecrating' scheme's soul

Kolkata, Dec. 18 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs on Thursday staged a protest in the national capital, holding portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore to oppose what they described as the ... Read More


Karnataka's Hate Speech Bill explained: What we need to know

Hyderabad, Dec. 18 -- The Karnataka Assembly on Thursday, December 18, passed the much-contested Hate Speech and Hate Crimes (Prevention) Bill, the first such law in India. The Bill was first cleared... Read More


Ludhiana: Prison violence exposes administrative collapse, says Bajwa

Ludhiana, Dec. 18 -- Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, Partap Singh Bajwa, on Wednesday condemned the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Punjab government following a violent communal clash insi... Read More


'Unmapped' voters highest in Matua-dominated Assembly constituencies

Kolkata, Dec. 18 -- The highest concentration of the "unmapped" voters was found in the Matua-dominated Assembly constituencies of North 24-Parganas and Nadia, with BJP MLA Subrata Thakur's Gaighata r... Read More