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The advertisement also has pictures of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh and Uttar Pradesh assembly speaker Hriday Narain Dixit.

In order to slowly chip away at the Trinamool Congress's vote bank, the BJP is aiming to increase its imprint on smaller ‘parar puja’ (neighborhood puja) during celebrations later this year while simultaneously looking to enter the larger ones in Kolkata.

The TMC held a day-long dharna here in protest against central government's decision to serve IT notices to Durga puja committees.

Two rebel Congress leaders - Ramesh L Jharkhiholi and Mahesh Kumathalli and an independent leader R Shanker, who were disqualified on July 25, had moved the apex court on July 29 challenging disqualification.

The governor also said Rahul Gandhi should feel ashamed about the behaviour of one of his leaders, who was talking like an 'idiot' in the Parliament.

The CWC unanimously resolved to request Sonia Gandhi to take over as interim chief pending the election of a regular president by the AICC.

The Gandhis knew it would not go unnoticed that they decided not to turn up at the Darbar Hall when Pranab Mukherjee, a career Congressmen, was being conferred with the highest civilian honour of the land.

Former minister Usman Majeed and various other leaders, including Hilal Ahmad Shah, have been detained at undisclosed locations, the J&K Congress Committee said in a statement.

They said halting the budget would be a retrograde step and sought an appointment with the chief minister to apprise him of the matter and request him to not stop ongoing work.

BJP workers led by education minister Suresh Bhardwaj and Shimla Mayor Kusum Sadrate gathered at Naaz Chowk near Mall road at 2.30 pm on Monday to express their joy over revocation of the Article 370.

Nitish Kumar said he is hopeful that the university will get its due as Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu is present at the programme held to observe the centenary of the library of the varsity.

Phoolka had resigned as MLA in October and had later met the Assembly speaker, urging him to accept his resignation. He had stepped down to press for immediate action against those involved in desecrating the Guru Grant Sahib in the state in 2015.

The need to democratise the party and pull it out of Lalu’s family cocoon was felt following a series of setbacks the party suffered in the last two months.

The changes were proposed in the meeting on July 15, following which a meeting of the DU Oversight Committee would have to approve the same. Two weeks on, the changes have not yet been approved, leaving students without a syllabus.

The Rajya Sabha seat from Rajasthan fell vacant after the death of BJP leader Madan Lal Saini on June 24. And the EC on Thursday issued a statement listing out the schedule of election for filling up the Rajya Sabha seat in Rajasthan.

Suggesting three key amendments to the bill while initiating a debate in Rajya Sabha, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh urged the government to drop a provision which he said will "legalise quackery" under Section 32 of the bill and refer it to a Selec...