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Mamata Banerjee says ‘those who clash with us will be destroyed’

Mamata says ‘those who clash with us will be destroyed’

After losing a substantial amount of her turf in West Bengal to the BJP in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election, state chief minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee conveyed a sharp political message with her Eid greetings. Read More

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Shiv Sena likens Pakistanis who harassed guests at Indian high commission to ‘drunken monkeys’

Sena: Pakistani ‘drunken monkeys’ created ruckus at Indian mission

Targeting Pakistan on the harassment meted out to guests at the Indian high commission in Islamabad during an iftar party, the Shiv Sena, on Tuesday, likened the Pakistanis who harassed the guests to “drunken monkeys”. Read More

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Shashi Tharoor over the three language formula: Nobody in North is learning Malayalam and Tamil

Shashi Tharoor says nobody in North is learning Malayalam and Tamil

Shashi Tharoor said the solution to the three language formula is not by “abandoning the idea but by its better implementation”. Read More

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Asaduddin Owaisi uses Narendra Modi’s ‘third child’ status to take dig at Baba Ramdev’s remark

Owaisi uses Modi’s ‘3rd child’ status to take dig at Ramdev’s quip

Asaduddin Owaisi, leader of AIMIM and Hyderabad MP, reacted to yoga guru and FMCG major Patanjali Ayurved head Baba Ramdev’s remark that in order to control India’s population, a couple’s third child onwards should be stripped of voting rights. Read More

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Baba Ramdev says a couple’s third child onwards should be disenfranchised to control population

Ramdev says third child onwards should be disenfranchised

Baba Ramdev, yoga guru and the head of FMCG major Patanjali Ayurved Limited, has called for taking away voting rights of a couple’s third child and subsequent children as a measure to control India’s rapidly growing population. Read More

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Gautam Gambhir calls attack on Muslim in Gurgaon ‘deplorable’

Gautam Gambhir, the BJP’s newly-elected MP, condemned the assault on a Muslim man by some fringe Hindutva elements. Some youths mercilessly thrashed a Muslim man for wearing a skull cap and made the victim chant “Jai Sri Ram”. Read More

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Randeep Singh Surjewala: Election Commission wants to set a new precedent of ‘dark secrets’

Surjewala says EC wants to set a new precedent of ‘dark secrets’

Senior Congress leader and spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala slammed the election commission and termed as “constitutional travesty” the EC's rejection of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's demand Read More

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Priyanka Sharma refuses to apologize for posting Mamata Banerjee meme

Priyanka Sharma ‘won’t apologize’ for posting Mamata meme

BJP youth wing activist Priyanka Sharma said she would not apologise for uploading a morphed image of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Facebook. Read More

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Kamal Hassan, referring to Nathuram Godse, says ‘India first terrorist was Hindu’

Kamal Hassan, referring to Godse, says ‘India 1st terrorist was Hindu’

Actor-turned-politician and founder of Makkal Needhi Maiyam Kamal Hassan kicked a row by saying free India’s first “terrorist was a Hindu”, while referring to Nathuram Godse – Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin. Read More

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Ram Madhav says ‘we don’t need kingmaker as we have already king’

Ram Madhav: ‘Don’t need kingmaker, we already have king’

The Bhartiya Janata Party general secretary, Ram Madhav, on Tuesday, said in an interview to NDTV that “the BJP will win a majority and form a government on its own because of huge support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He said, “We won’t need anyone to form the next government, we are confident. Read More

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