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UP BJP MLA seeks specific laws to check desecration of religious books

Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Rajeshwar Singh has written to the Union and the state governments seeking enactment of specific legislation to deal with the cases of desecration of religious texts as the current law legal regime was "insufficient". The legislator has suggested that a specific section can be added through an amendment to the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) making sacrilege of religious texts, with an intention to hurt the religious sentiments of the people, punishable with rigorous imprisonment of up to a maximum of five years along with a fine of Rs 1 lakh. "The diverse religious faiths are immensely important and deeply seated in the value system of a majority of the population...from the Holy Bhagwat Gita and Ramcharitmanas to the Quran, the Bible and the Guru Granth Sahib, Indian society has always accorded honour and reverence to religious texts," Singh said in his letter to Union Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Saturday. Singh, also a ..

Oppn bloc has no vision for India's development: BJP Ravi Shankar Prasad

BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday slammed the INDIA bloc meetings and asserted that the alliance has no vision for the development of India, and their recurrent theme was to abuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "In the third meeting of the so-called alliance, there was no vision for the development of India, no roadmap for the upliftment of the poor, no strategy to address concerns of farmers or women and children. The most important is that there was not even an acknowledgement of the threat to India from terrorism, radicalisation and successionist forces...Their only recurrent theme is to abuse Shri Narendra Modi ji..."Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi Ravi Shankar Prasad asked if he had become the spokesperson of the Chinese establishment."Mr Rahul Gandhi, have you become the spokesperson of the Chinese establishment? The Indian Armed forces have clearly said about what happened in Galwan Valley, but you don't even believe them. What can we ...

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Rajasthan: Sachin Pilot's chance at CM in the past, says RLP leader Beniwal

Rashtriya Loktantrik Party leader Hanuman Beniwal stated that the government should remove the "unnecessary" position of the governor

India will buy oil from anyone who offers lowest prices: Hardeep Singh Puri

India, the world's third-biggest oil importer and consumer, gets more than 80% of its oil from overseas

Rajasthan BJP MLA accuses Union Min Meghwal of corruption, seeks removal

Kailash Meghwal alleges Arjun Ram Meghwal is "corrupt number one," vows to write to PM Modi for removal from Council of Ministers

Rajasthan: Scientists were sent to jail under Congress, says BJP leader

BJP leader CP Joshi slams CM Ashok Gehlot's comments praising Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru for Chandrayaan-3's successful landing

Nuh Shobha Yatra: Internet suspended, Sec 144 imposed, all you need to know

Police officials in Nuh said 1,900 Haryana Police personnel and 24 companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed

Ahead of assembly polls due next year, Arunachal BJP to undergo reshuffle

Ahead of assembly polls due next year, the Arunachal Pradesh unit of BJP underwent a reshuffle of its state office bearers. The reshuffle, executed by state BJP president Biyuram Wahge, was officially ratified by the BJP central office in New Delhi, a party statement said here on Friday. Tadar Niglar has been designated as the state general secretary, while Romin Babom and Dotum Sora have been entrusted with the roles of state secretaries. Kohman Lungphii Ngemu will be the new BJP Mahila Morcha state president, while Ritemso Manyu will be the state president of Yuva Morcha and Gumsen Lollen the state president of Kisan Morcha. Kame Yangfo will be the new state president of ST Morcha while Sambu Siongju will be the new state president of Minority Morcha. These designations were accorded the stamp of approval from the central BJP office, the statement added.

India's moon mission cost half of Bengal scam amount: Sukanta Majumdar

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Sukanta Majumdar said that India's moon mission was successful at just half the cost of the West Bengal teachers' recruitment scam amount

Telangana elections: Shah to address rally, review preparations in state

Telangana Assembly elections 2023: BJP leaders have claimed that there is 'anti-incumbency' against the K Chandrashekhar Rao-led government in the state

Rajasthan elections: BJP to stage protest in state over daily power cuts

Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore, claimed that the state produced 23,309MW of power has not been seen anywhere

ED raids in Chhattisgarh show BJP afraid of election results: Congress

The Congress on Wednesday said the ongoing Enforcement Directorate "raids" in Chhattisgarh were a reaction to the pre-poll surveys predicting a "massive rout" for the BJP, and asserted that its government will not get bogged down by such "threats". The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted searches at the premises of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel's political advisor Vinod Verma and an Officer on Special Duty (OSD), sources said. Reacting to the development, Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said, "The ongoing ED raids in Chattisgarh are a clear reaction to all the pre-poll surveys that have predicted a massive rout for the BJP." "Our pro-people Congress government will not get bogged down by such threats. We have the power of the people behind us," Khera said in a post on X. The ED searches were also held at the premises of a businessman in Durg. The exact case in connection with which the searches were being conducted was not yet

No concept of old and new BJP, anybody can join with missed call: Assam CM

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma dismissed the "old BJP versus new BJP debate and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president J P Nadda have made it amply clear that anyone can join the saffron party by giving a missed call to achieve 'Congress-mukt' India. He made the remarks on Tuesday amidst an apparent tussle between some of BJP's old guard in Assam and those who have joined the party in recent times. Sarma asserted that he himself, his predecessor Sarbananda Sonowal, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, and former Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai were the so-called new BJP" people. There is nothing called new or old BJP. Had the party thought in that way, do you think Sonowal or Himanta Biswa Sarma could have become the chief minister (of Assam)? he told reporters here in response to a question about the tussle within the Assam BJP unit. Sar

230 BJP MLAs begin constituency visits to boost party prospects in MP polls

Two hundred and thirty Bharatiya Janata Party legislators from Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra who arrived in Madhya Pradesh two days ago have fanned out in as many Assembly constituencies in the state to firm up the party's prospects for the year-end polls. They were given training on Saturday on what they have to do in the state during their week-long stay and have now begun sending their field reports to the party's central leadership in Delhi on a daily basis, a top BJP leader told PTI on Monday. Their job is to mingle with party workers and the public to understand the demands of the constituency and take stock of the ground situation, BJP insiders said. The BJP has made Union Ministers Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw as the party's MP election incharge and co-incharge, while their cabinet colleague Narendra Singh Tomar, who is Lok Sabha MP from Morena in the state, is convenor of the election management committee. The BJP last week released its first list o

Training program of BJP MLAs called from other states for MP polls begins

The BJP MLAs from four states which includes Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Bihar have arrived here for the training

80% of decisions taken by Assam CM Sarma-led cabinet implemented in state

On May 10 in 2021, Himanta Biswa Sarma was sworn in as the 15th Chief Minister of Assam.

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Significant milestone: PM Modi on Jan Dhan accounts crossing 50-crore mark

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lauded the feat of the number of Jan Dhan accounts crossing the 50-crore mark as a significant milestone. It is heartening to see that more than half of these accounts belong to women, Modi posted on X. The Union Finance Ministry said on Friday that the total number of Jan Dhan accounts in the country has crossed the 50-crore mark, with 56 per cent of them belonging to women. About 67 per cent of these accounts have been opened in rural and semi-urban areas, the ministry said in a statement. Terming it a significant milestone, Modi said, "It is heartening to see that more than half of these accounts belong to our Nari Shakti. With 67% of accounts opened in rural and semi-urban areas, we are also ensuring that the benefits of financial inclusion reach every corner of our nation." The total deposits in the Jan Dhan accounts are above Rs 2.03 lakh crore while around 34 crore RuPay cards have been issued with these accounts free of cost, the ..

Many fishermen were brought back to homeland since 2014: MoS Murugan

Murugan also said that the situation has changed positively since 2014 and many fishermen have been saved