'It will be a long time before we will see the likes of Vajpayee again.'
Why Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Manjinder S Sirsa is furious with the director and actor of Sacred Games 2.
Facing ire over his alleged inflammatory speech warning Muslims of a 'final battle', Union Minister of State for Human Resource and Development Ram Shankar Katheria claims he did not make any such comments.
'With over 50 per cent of medical seats reserved for those who have the ability to pay a fee ranging from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1.5 crore for a five-year MBBS course and quotas in accordance with affirmative policies in government colleges, the band of seats available for the not-so-rich and non-OBCs is very narrow.'
'The politics of Goa is moving around a sole entity, which is land.'
'BJP leaders are trying to save their lives in Punjab.'
'This is a fascinating side to Sonia Gandhi, the way she disarms her opponents.'
'Will you declare MSP for 100 odd crops that the farmers of India grow?'
'We will resist it.' 'Farmers will not let that happen.'
From the kind of food to the art which will be displayed at the museum, historian Pushpesh Pant shares his vision.
'I am happy Sanjay Raut and Sharad Pawar changed the game of Maharashtra politics.'
'Since the RJD came to power, criminals have stopped fearing the law.'
'The Scindias betrayed Jhansi ki Rani and now the Congress party.' 'So this is nothing new as he is repeating the history of his family.'
'The message they want to send to the country is that they can do anything by hook or crook'
'We know how to kill a terrorist, but we do not know how to stop an innocent boy getting radicalised.'
'If there is effective prosecution, only then we will get justice, but first let them (NIA) run the case honestly in court.'
'He was such a diverse poet that he wrote the song M bole toh Master of Munnabhai MBBS and also Yeh Rishta kya kehlata hai of Meenaxi.'
'When the Babri Masjid was demolished, we didn't take permission from anyone.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com presents 10 dynasts of the BJP who have managed to get elected this time round.
It is a waste of time to speak up in today's India, believes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'There was already a cash crunch and this (lockdown) has created more trouble.'
'Where should shudra-OBCs go because of whom the nation is surviving?'
'In 2021, assembly elections are going to be held in Assam. The BJP, sitting in Delhi, is thinking everything is hunky-dory in Assam. But that is not the case.' 'People of Assam are no longer with the BJP.'
'The home minister of India has given his assurance to the MP of Lakshadweep.'
'No Indian political party functions in a democratic way.'
'People with vested interests in the BJP don't want the Patels to get reservation.'
'During the lockdown if you terminate your employee, then you will face action under the NDMA.' 'This will be the first time something like this will happen in the history of India.'
Bharat Pardeshi, one of the leaders from the All India Railway Act Apprentice Association, spoke to Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf about why they had to resort to the unpopular move, disrupting the lives of thousands of railway commuters in Mumbai.
'The Naxals started firing indiscriminately.' 'The whole jungle echoed with the sound of bullets.' 'The only thing I heard from that side was 'Chhodna kisi ko nahi (don't let anyone escape)'.'
'I can barely see anything in the news about the farmer protests, and all I've seen of Nirav Modi is that he can't come home because he's busy, and that the CBI is writing letters begging him to please at least call the Indian embassy, no?'
'As a doctor, I always knew I would get it, but I was always sure I would get cured too.'
'These atheist people wanted to finish the progress of Sabrimala temple devotees and now they are using this (the Supreme Court verdict) as a weapon to destroy the believers.'
'If you believe the Congress will win in 2024 because Modi is blundering from one monumental disaster to another, that means you are living in a fool's paradise.'
'If it is not possible for the Indian Railways to have separate non-vegetarian and vegetarian compartments, then what is the harm in railways serving only vegetarian food?'
'If the Chinese military gets hold of some western sectors on the India-China boundary, it will give them added military advantage.'
'If the situation escalates, then mini-scale firing might happen.'
The Bombay high court raised some key points before granting bail to actor Salman Khan.
'He was full of Hindustan, its tehzeeb and its culture.'
Some police encounters that stunned India.
'They are deliberately targeting journalists who are not succumbing to government pressure and therefore these journalists are paying a price.'
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