"The government bowed down only because their defeat was clearly visible in Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. After the elections in five states, they will bring back this law from the back door," Congress party chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala told a press conference while reacting to t...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, is all set to form government for the seventh consecutive term in western Indian state of Gujarat after scoring a resounding victory in the local election, which analysts see as a significant boost for the ruling party and an indi...
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In government, the BJP has frequently used enforcement powers to try and prevent inter-communal tensions from spilling into outright violence due to concerns about its law-and-order message and India's international reputation, some analysts say. Many Muslims say they live in fea...
Though final results would be announced by India's Election Commission in the evening, live TV reports suggested that the BJP wrested Tripura from the Communists and seemed comfortably placed to form the next government in Nagaland with its alliance partner, while Meghalaya gave a fractured mandate...
Places the U.S. Government Warns Not to Travel Right Now Related: 10 Safest States in America On Thursday, it cited a French media report that said that OCCRP was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and "other deep state figures" like Soros. ...
A new India dawns...pic.twitter.com/h0F4Tl6uHT — William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill)December 12, 2018 At its peak, the BJP had governments (or was part of the government) in 21 states. With yesterday’s election performance, the Congress now has a government or is part of the governmen...
Kashmir’s statehood must be restored for the new government to have powers similar to other states of India. The region’s last assembly election was held in 2014, after which the BJP for the first time ruled in a coalition with the local Peoples Democratic Party. But the government ...
New Delhi, Jan. 17 (PTI):External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday made a statement on India's presidency of G20 at the party's national executive meeting as he asserted that the country's image has transformed globally in the last nine years of the Narendra Modi-...
All the three seats -- Ajmer, Alwar and Mandalgarh -- were held by India's as well as Rajasthan's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The three seats fell vacant due to the deaths of its lawmakers last year. The bypolls are perceived as a litmus test for the BJP government in th...