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Shopian civilian killings: FIR against Army major disgusting, says BJP

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP today termed the lodging of an FIR against Army personnel over the killing of two youth, allegedly in firing by jawans, in Shopian as "unfortunate and disgusting" asserting that nothing should be done that demoralises the forces. The issue was also raised in the state Assembly by a BJP MLA who demanded the FIR be withdrawn as a magisterial probe was already ordered in the incident. The J&K Police had yesterday registered an FIR under sections 302 (murder) and 307 (attempt to murder) of the Ranbir Penal Code against personnel of the 10, Garhwal unit of the Army over the deaths of two youths, allegedly in Army firing, in Shopian last week. State BJP spokesperson Virender Gupta in a statement termed as "unfortunate and disgusting", the lodging of the FIR against a major and other personnel on the charge of murder and attempt to murder by the state government when no FIR was lodged or enquiry ordered against the stone ...

Kashmir still under fire because of Abdullahs, Nehru-Gandhi family: BJP

Farooq Abdullah's politics is of no use: BJP

Jharkhand Assembly polls: Campaigning for Phase-III ends, voting on Dec 12

According to police sources, adequate security personnel, including central para-military and the state police forces have been deployed for a smooth and peaceful conduct of the voting

BJP confident Rajya Sabha will pass Citizenship Amendment Bill on Wednesday

Sources in the party said that the legislation will also sail through the Rajya Sabha as the ruling NDA has the numbers.

BJP retains Karnataka, set to win 12 bypoll seats under CM Yeddiyurappa

The BJP's good show in 12 seats comes as a morale booster for the saffron party after it's setback in Maharashtra

Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut says illegal 'intruders' should be thrown out

Ahead of tabling of the Citizen (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha on Monday, the Shiv Sena has opposed granting of any voting rights to illegal "intruders" even as it advocated citizenship for immigrant Hindus. The bill (CAB) seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan escaping religious persecution there. "Illegal Intruders should be thrown out. Immigrant Hindus must be given citizenship, but let's give rest to allegations of creating vote bank & not give them voting rights, what say? And yes what aboutpandits, have they gone back to kashmir after article 370 was removed?" Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut tweeted in morning and tagged Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who will introduce the CAB in the Lower House. Raut's comment assumes significance as he is the chief whip of the Sena in Parliament. What stand does the Sena, which has 18 MPs in Lok Sabha, take on the bill is being closely watched as the saffron ...

Citizenship Bill: Sena accuses Centre of 'invisible Hindu-Muslim partition'

Sena pointed out that most of the states from the North East region have opposed the CAB along with Bihar where the BJP is sharing power with the JD(U), and West Bengal

BJP to go solo in 2022 Mumbai civic body election against Shiv Sena

The Sena has been controlling the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country's richest civic body, since the last 30 years

Telangana encounter: BSP and BJP spar on Twitter over UP's crime record

After BSP grabbed the chance to hit out at the Yogi government, suggesting UP police "learn" from its Hyderabad counterparts, the former retorted with statistics on encounters it has under its belt

'Abki baar 3 paar' would be BJP's slogan for Delhi assembly polls: Kejriwal

Kejriwal said the Aam Aadmi Party's slogan would be 'abki baar 67 paar' in the assembly polls due early next year

Divide and win: How Citizenship Bill and NRC are BJP's next Ram Mandir

Since we raised the question of old and new history, it might be necessary for us to go back a few decades to understand the nature and complexity of migration in the east, especially Assam

NCP leaders who defected to BJP meet Sharad Pawar, eye homecoming

Among the key NCP leaders who had jumped the ship ahead of the election included Ganesh Naik, MLA Shivendrasinh Bhosale and Vaibhav Pichad, among others

BJP's rebel with a cause

Demonetisation, according to the author, led to another major flaw in the way the government dealt with the crisis in the micro, small and medium enterprises sector

Letter to BS: Political system refusing to allow dissent becomes a tyranny

A letter signed by 49 celebrities was sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting the spike in attacks on Muslims, Dalits and other minorities

Yediyurappa may expand cabinet after Dec 5 bypolls: Karnataka deputy CM

Including the Chief Minister, currently there are 18 ministers in the cabinet, whose sanctioned strength is 34.

Citizenship Amendment Bill cleared by Cabinet today: All you need to know

The Union Cabinet today gave its nod to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which will now be tabled in Parliament soon

Pankaja Munde breaks silence, says not quitting BJP

Pankaja, daughter of BJP stalwart late Gopinath Munde, also denied rumours that her act of removing "BJP" from her twitter bio was aimed at putting pressure on her party

Citizenship Bill: Students' union of Assam's Cotton University bans BJP-RSS

Along with the BJP-RSS, the students' union and alumni association also banned entry of all organisations and leaders, who are supporting the CAB, into the institution

Frames per Second: Never against the family

Supriya Sule hugging Ajit Pawar reminded one of the advice Michael Corleone gave his elder brother Fredo

Kejriwal looks to 'water' down BJP campaign with a volley of freebies

BJP's strategy seems to be simple: Make people believe that their and the lives of their loved ones are at risk with Kejriwal and his party in power