Former finance minister P Chidambaram, who is facing probe in the INX Media case by both the ED and the CBI for alleged money laundering and is currently in jail, turned 74 on Monday. On this, his son tweeted a letter saying “no 56 can stop you”, which is seen as a challenge thrown to the prime mini
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Three months after the government’s report on jobs said India’s unemployment was at a four-decade high, Union minister Santosh Gangwar insists that there is no job crisis. Instead he blamed the north Indians for lacking requisite qualifications for employment.
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Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre is stifling all voices of dissent in the Kashmir valley with brute force and challenged it to arrest her.
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The vice-president, M Venkaiah Naidu, echoed the home minister, Rajnath Singh, when he said the only thing leftfor India today to discuss with Pakistan is the unresolved issue of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
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Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Veerappa Moily, while assailing his party colleague Jairam Ramesh for the latter’s pro-Narendra Modi remarks, said Ramesh was among those responsible for “policy paralysis” of the Congress-led second United Progressive Alliance government.
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Rahul Gandhi, former Congress president and MP from Kerala’s Wayanad, said Kashmir is India’s internal issue and there is no room for Pakistan or any other foreign country to interfere in it.
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Former Congress president and current Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad Rahul Gandhi’s recent comments, in which he criticized the Narendra Modi government on its handling of the Kashmir issue, have drew fire from the ruling BJP.
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Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who represents the Congress from West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha, said “acts must be judged issue-wise and not person-wise,” while tweeting about the futility of demonizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi all the time.
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Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, on Wednesday, saiddemonizing the prime minister, Narendra Modi,all the time was “wrong”. To drive in his point, Ramesh gave the example of the success of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana and how it got Modi votes from rural women.
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Amid the several questions raised about the four-decade-old MiG-21 fighter planes that remain the core of Indian Air Force’s warplane fleet, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa said, “The Indian Air force is still flying 44-year-old MiG-21 fighter jets when no one even drives cars that old.”
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The defence minister, Rajnath Singh, suggested that bilateral talks between India and Pakistan on Kashmir would happen on Pakistan-occupied Kashmir – the territory under Pakistan’s control since it tried to invade Jammu & Kashmir and annex it in 1948.
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The Pakistani prime minister, Imran Khan, took to Twitter and attacked the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, which he called “fascist” and “Hindu supremacist”.
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Vikram Singh Saini, BJP MLA from Muzaffarnagar’s Khatauli, on Tuesday, sparked a row after he said the party workers were “excited” because they will now be able to get married to “fair girls from Kashmir”.
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Telangana Congress working president Ponnam Prabhakar Goud claimed that state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party was majorly controlled by chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao.
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Former chief minister and PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti said that the deployment of forces by the centre in Kashmir and the statements given by its leadership in the recent days suggested “something big” is being planned.
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Home minister Amit Shah took a dig at former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh, during a discussion on the anti-terror Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill that cleared both houses of parliament.
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With the speculations rising on the Centre’s possible move to abrogate Article 35A, The Jammu & Kashmir governor, Satya Pal Malik, asked the people of the state not to pay heed to rumours regarding the state’s special status.
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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, while speaking at the first convocation of St Xavier’s University, Kolkata, said, “Education is the most important instrument for upholding human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
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Kerala filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan asked BJP spokesperson B Gopalakrishnan to buy him a ticket to the moon and to also book him a room there, while responding to his “move to the moon” remark.
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Army chief General Bipin Rawat warned Pakistan of a “bloodier nose” if it chooses to go into another war with India while advising the neighbouring country of not repeating “misadventures”.
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