Politics

The PDP president's remarks came following violent protests in Jammu and reports of Kashmiri students being targeted in colleges and universities at some places outside the state.

Recently, 14 students were booked for sedition for raising ‘anti-national slogans’ following a private complaint filed by local BJP leader Mukesh Lodi.

There is an internal debate in the Congress about whether it should strengthen itself and maximise its gains or sacrifice self-interest to build alliances to unseat the Modi government.

Separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik stated in a statement that the leadership of Kashmir regrets every killing on Kashmir's soil.

In a statement, VHP's international working president Alok Kumar said the act was perpetuated by a local youth, indoctrinated in the name of religion.

Manjhi has sought to assume an aggressive posture ever since the HAM suffered a setback recently with its state unit chief Vrishan Patel and national spokesman Danish Rizwan quitting the party, though both are critical of each other.

Multiple sources from the AIADMK and the BJP have confirmed that talks are for a pre-poll alliance and there is no question of the AIADMK contesting the general elections alone like it did in 2014.

The Rafale and the Eurofighter jets were the two shortlisted for acquisition by the Indian Air Force after technical trials among six competitors.

The chief minister will sit on a hunger strike along with his ministers, party MLAs, MLCs and MPs. Members of state employee associations, social organisations and student organisations will also join the fast, it said.

The blame game erupted with Gupta charging the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader with lying that names of 24 lakh voters had been deleted in Delhi in the past four years.

Over two dozen spots have been identified on a 12-km stretch from Lucknow airport to the state Congress office where party workers will be welcoming Priyanka Gandhi

Chautala's lawyer Amit Sahni said that the INLD leader was released from Tihar Jail on furlough on Friday evening

Congress has become a toy in the dirty game of multinational corporates. Their language is not in the interest of the country, she said.

Yatra, which is directed by Mahi V Raghav and is set to release in the two Telugu-speaking states on Friday, traces the life journey of YSR, as he was popularly known, in undivided Andhra Pradesh.

Rahul is set to announce multiple schemes such as a monthly unemployment allowance of Rs 4,000, minimum 100 days of work for the youth and the ambitious scheme of slashing the electricity bills by half as per the election manifesto.

Anxiety-gripped Congress has convened a legislature party (CLP) meeting Friday ahead of budget presentation and warned its MLAs that absence would invite action under the Anti-Defection Law.