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MP: BJP delegation submits memorandum to Governor over 'deteriorating law and order situation'
A BJP delegation led by party's MP from Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur, has submitted a memorandum to Governor Anandiben Patel over 'deteriorating law and order situation in Madhya Pradesh.'The memorandum which was submitted to the Governor on Sunday claimed that over 10,000 government officials have been transferred by Kamal Nath-led Congress government in the state which has taken a toll on administration and policing.This comes after rapes and murder cases were reported in the state. Opposition leader blamed law and order and shunting of cops as a reason for the spike in crime.In Jabalpur, a four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a minor boy. This comes three days after rape and murder of a five-year-old girl in Ujjain.
Priyanka Gandhi to visit UP for first time after Congress' poll debacle
New Delhi [India], Jun 10 (ANI): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday for the first time after facing massive defeat in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.Congress' general secretary in-charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka will visit Rae Bareli on Tuesday evening and will take part in review meetings that will take place on Wednesday to discuss the reasons behind party's poor performance in the general elections in the state.Along with Priyanka, Congress general secretary in-charge of western Uttar Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia will also take review meetings in Delhi on June 11 and in Lucknow on June 14.According to sources, district presidents from the eastern region of the state and other senior leaders will be attending marathon meetings which will go till late in the presence of secretary in-charges of eastern Uttar Pradesh.Sonia Gandhi retained the Rae Bareli seat by defeating the BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh by over 1.67 lakh ...
Congress turning into a divided house due to infighting among leaders
New Delhi [India], Jun 09 (ANI): While the Congress has always maintained that no crisis is going on within the party after facing defeat in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the real picture is quite different from what they are claiming.The Congress party units across the country are getting into an internal tiff instead of analysing the reasons behind losing the poll battle.The Congress was badly defeated in the Hindi belt states in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Congress leaders in most of the states have started getting into an argument with each other over the defeat.It is worth mentioning that Congress President Rahul Gandhi has so far not opened up about the ongoing misery happening within the party.As per reports, internal tiffs are also going on in Jammu and Kashmir after the Congress's drubbing in the state in Lok Sabha polls for which, the party has blamed the National Conference. Congress had alleged that Farooq and Omar Abdullah did not campaign for the party in
United by fear of China, Hong Kongers staged record march
They came from all walks of life, a sea of white-clad Hong Kongers, braving hours in the tropical heat and galvanised by fear that their unique city is being subsumed by China. The international financial hub has seen plenty of political turbulence over the last decade as concern mounts that its freedoms and culture are being undermined by a resurgent Beijing. But even by Hong Kong's track record for eye-catching protests, Sunday's demonstration against the city government's plans to allow extraditions to the mainland was historic. It began with crowds of peaceful marchers stretching out for miles -- families with flag waving toddlers, grandparents in wheelchairs, expats and business types, musicians banging drums, artists, activists and more. Most chose the colour white to represent justice. But it ended with angry masked youths fighting running battles through the night with riot police. In many ways, it was a cross-section of what Hong Kong now is. Throughout the day protesters ...
Violence mars end of huge Hong Kong protest against China extradition
A huge peaceful protest in Hong Kong against controversial plans to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland descended into violence early Monday as police fought running battles with small pockets of demonstrators. Organisers said more than a million people took part in the Sunday march - the largest protest since Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China - confronting the city's pro-Beijing leadership with a major political crisis. The city government is pushing a bill through the legislature that would allow extraditions to any jurisdiction with which it does not already have a treaty - including mainland China. The proposals have sparked an outcry and birthed an opposition that unites a wide cross-section of the city. Sunday saw huge crowds march in blazing summer heat through the cramped streets of the financial hub's main island in a noisy, colourful demonstration calling on the government to scrap its planned extradition law. The march passed without incident. But shortly after ...
Greek prime minister to ask president for early election
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has a meeting set with Greece's president to ask him to call an early national election by dissolving parliament. Tsipras' office said the prime minister would visit President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Monday afternoon. After his left-wing party's poor performance in the European Union election two weeks ago, Tsipras said he would request the dissolution of the Greek parliament to trigger a vote for its replacement. The government wants it held on July 7. A regularly scheduled election is not due until October, when the four-year term of Tsipras' government ends. The prime minister's Syriza party finished the European Parliament election well behind the conservative opposition party New Democracy. The leader of a former partner party in the current coalition government, former defense minister Panos Kammenos, said Sunday that his Independent Greeks would not participate in an early parliamentary election. Kammenos resigned from Tsipras' Cabinet and ended ...
Trinamool terms MHA advisory as political conspiracy
The ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday described as 'political conspiracy" the advisory from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to the West Bengal government on the law enforcement machinery in the state and said it would respond 'appropriately'.
Iran gears up for high-stakes diplomacy amid tension with US
As its nuclear deal with world powers unravels amid heightened tensions with the US, Iran will see a week of high-stakes diplomacy capped by the first visit of a Japanese prime minister to Tehran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Shinzo Abe will arrive on Wednesday in Iran after earlier meeting with President Donald Trump, whose maximalist approach toward the Islamic Republic has seen America re-impose sanctions once lifted by the 2015 accord and create far-reaching newer ones. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas also will visit Tehran as well this week. What Abe will be able to accomplish remains unclear, as Iran already has warned Europe it will begin enrichment of uranium closer to weapons-grade levels by July 7 if it doesn't come up with new terms to the deal. It also comes as Japan tries to negotiate its own trade deals with Trump, who has been quick to impose tariffs on other nations. But Abe, whose nation relies heavily on Mideast crude oil to power its economy, already has ...
Don't leave room for Muslim Prabhakaran: Sri Lanka President
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena called for unity among all communities saying the country has now divided.
Kazakhstan elects new leader, as hundreds arrested in protests
Kazakhstan on Sunday elected the hand-picked successor of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev with 70 per cent of the vote, exit polls showed, as police arrested hundreds of opposition protesters. The victory of career diplomat Kassym Jomart-Tokayev was never in doubt after he received the blessing of powerful Nazarbayev, who had led the Central Asian nation for the last three decades. Tokayev, 66, took just over 70 per cent of the vote, according to the government-approved "Public Opinion" pollster. His nearest opposition rival Amirzhan Kosanov had around 15 per cent. But the day was marked by the biggest protests the Muslim-majority country has seen in three years, as demonstrators urged a "boycott" of what they said was a fixed election. The build-up to the vote saw an intensifying crackdown on the opposition with courts sentencing protesters to short stays in jail and police raiding activists' homes. The interior ministry said around 500 people were arrested on Sunday, with ...
BJP prepares roadmap for polls in 2 assembly seats
The BJP's Odisha unit Sunday reviewed the Lok Sabha and assembly election results and prepared strategy for ensuring win in the polls at Bijepur and Patkura assembly seats. Odisha Chief Minister and BJD president Naveen Patnaik had won from two seats and on June 2 resigned from Bijepur Assembly constituency and retained the Hinjli seat. The election to Patkura assembly constituency was postponed following the death of Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Bed Prakash Agarwalla. The core committee of the party met under the chairmanhip of state president Basant Panda and discussed the party's strategy in the polls in the two seats, the date of election of which is yet to be announced. It was followed by a full-fledged meeting of party executives that thanked the people for their support which blessed BJP with eight of the 21 Lok Sabha seats and 23 of the 146 assembly constituencies in the state. The meeting also discussed at length the causes behind its debacle in other seats .
BJP will help allies on their seats in Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis
In Maharashtra, BJP will work on the seats of its allies to increase their winning chances in the upcoming state elections, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here on Sunday."In view of the Assembly elections, the Maharashtra Core Committee met BJP national president Amit Shah. The strategy for the forthcoming elections has been worked out. Our president has said to work for the allies of BJP as well," Fadnavis told reporters here.Fadnavis attended a meeting presided over by Union Home Minister and BJP president Amit Shah of the Core Groups of Haryana, Maharashtra, and Jharkhand. The meeting discussed strategies for the assembly polls for the three states.The state assembly election is due to be held in Maharashtra in October to elect 288 members.The meeting took place in the BJP head office in the national capital.Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, his Jharkhand counterpart Raghubar Das, BJP's national general secretary Ramlal along with other party leaders were also ...
Pak, Afghan officials to hold talks on Monday
Senior officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold talks here on Monday under a bilateral arrangement to improve cooperation in different fields. Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood will lead the Pakistan delegation while the Afghan side will be led by Deputy Foreign Minister Idrees Zaman at the first review session of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Action Plan for Peace and Solidarity (APAPPS). "The forthcoming session will provide the two sides an opportunity to review progress made under this framework since the inaugural session and to exchange views on further collaboration in agreed areas of cooperation, the Foreign Office said in a statement. The APAPPS was established in May 2018 to provide a comprehensive and structured framework for institutional bilateral engagement between Pakistan and Afghanistan in diverse areas of cooperation. The mechanism works through five working groups on politico-diplomatic ties; military-to-military coordination; intelligence cooperation; economic .
No democracy in West Bengal, says BJP leader Mukul Roy
BJP leader Mukul Roy on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led West Bengal government, saying that there is no democracy in the state.He also raised questions over the role of police in not allowing the bodies of deceased BJP workers to be taken to the party headquarter. He said that the role of security forces was unfortunate.Speaking to ANI, he said: "We have been saying it for long that in Bengal, there is no democracy. There was so much violence during the Lok Sabha elections.""Mamata Banerjee wants to create an atmosphere of fear by visiting different parts of the state. Just to create that atmosphere of fear, yesterday in Basirhat, their block president himself fired from his gun and injured five of our workers," he said."Our party wanted to pay tribute to the workers in our party office but Mamata's police stopped it. The way police behaved today is very unfortunate," he added.He also said that while the cremation of killed BJP workers will now .
LS polls fought on 'fake nationalism', state elections will be on local issues: BS Hooda
The Lok Sabha elections were fought on the basis of "fake nationalism" but the upcoming state elections will be fought on local issues, said former Haryana Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday, adding Congress would win in the state."The recently held Lok Sabha elections were held and won on the basis of fake nationalism but the upcoming Vidhan Sabha elections will be fought on local issues, and Congress will win them. And that is because people are frustrated with the BJP government in the state," Hooda said at a meeting here.Many Congress MLAs, former MLAs, former MPs, party candidates from the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and other local leaders were present at the meeting which had been called keeping in mind the upcoming state elections.Hooda blamed the Modi factor and "fake nationalism" for Congress' defeat in the Lok Sabha elections and asked the party leaders to shake off the thought of defeat from their minds. He asserted that "people needed ..
Drop plans to disinvest subsidiaries of Air India: SJM to govt
Days after the Narendra Modi dispensation assumed office for a second term, the RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) passed a resolution on Sunday advocating that the government should drop its plan for disinvestment of subsidiaries of national carrier Air India. "SJM strongly urges upon the government not to go ahead with its plan to disinvest the strategically important subsidiaries of Air India," the Sangh affiliate said in the resolution passed in its meeting held in Pune. The three wholly owned subsidiaries of Air India -- Air India Air Transport Services Ltd (AIATSL), Air India Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) and Alliance Air Services Ltd (AASL) -- are being put on disinvestment list again, it said. "The government should rather support the Air India subsidiaries to further expand their businesses by claiming back their businesses given to private parties earlier for example ground handling business of key airports given to AISATS, a Singapore-funded company during the ...
No water supply in 849 unauthorised colonies: BJP
The Delhi unit of the BJP Sunday accused the AAP government of having failed in supplying water to nearly 1,000 unauthorised colonies and making life difficult for their residents. "No water is being supplied to 849 unauthorized colonies. And no water pipelines have been laid in 147 such colonies because no objection certificates (for the purpose) have not been issued to the Delhi Jal Board," said Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari. He alleged that the water being supplied to several colonies are simply not potable and people drinking it are falling sick. AAP's chief spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj, however, countered the BJP charges saying that when his party formed the government in 2015, only 926 unauthorised colonies were having water lines. In 15 years of its tenure, the Congress government had provided water lines to only 926 colonies, he said. He added that in just 4 years, the Kejriwal government, however, managed to increase the number of unauthorised colonies receiving water ...
BJP stopped from taking workers' bodies to Kolkata (2nd Lead)
The last rites of two BJP workers, who were killed in clashes in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali area on Saturday, were performed in their native village on Sunday after the saffron party was denied permission to take their mortal remains to Kolkata, a state BJP leader said.
Nirupam, tribals protest against proposed zoo in Aarey Colony
Former president of Mumbai Congress Sanjay Nirupam Sunday took out a protest march along with local tribals against the Maharashtra government's proposal to set up an international-standard zoo in Aarey Milk Colony. The state government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to set up the world-class zoo at Aarey Colony, located in suburban Goregaon. The zoo is proposed to be spread over 190 acres and will be set up at the cost of Rs 500 crore. The Adivasi Rights Conservation Committee, Mumbai held the march in Goregaon against the government's proposal. Several tribal families that reside in the hilly parts of Goregaon, neighbouring Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), took part in it. The committee claimed that at least seven hamlets will have to be relocated to set up the zoo. Prakash Bhoir, one of the protesting tribals, said, "There is no need to put the animals behind cages. We are already suffering from ...
J-K: Terrorist hideout busted, ammunition seized
Security forces on Sunday busted a terrorist hideout in Panthna forests of Keshwan belt of the district.The hideout was revealed after a joint search and cordon operation was launched by the Army along with the Special Operation Group (SoG).Ammunition and other support items were recovered from the spot.Earlier on Friday, four suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists were killed in an encounter in Panjran's Litter area in Pulwama district of the state.