'People do not want a 'maha milavat' (highly adulterated) government of those who assembled in Kolkata.'
'It doesn't look as if any sensible, worldly wise, person is in charge in China.' 'If at all anybody is in charge, it can only be a bunch of bumpkins of whom Xi has become a puppet,' observes B S Raghavan, the veteran civil servant.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The comment has caused a furore in the state with leaders from major political parties lambasting him over the issue.
He said the bearer bonds can be purchased by corporate donors and donated to political parties without revealing their identity.
The superstar blamed anti-social elements for the anti-Sterlite protests last week that resulted in 13 deaths in police firing, and called for a Jayalalithaa-style 'iron fist' policy to crush such people in the interest of Tamil Nadu.
Cutting across party lines, all MPs slammed Pakistan for awarding death sentence to Kulbhushan Jadhav.
Voting will be held in 55 seats on Sunday in the penultimate phase of Bihar election, with stakes high for the Bharatiya Janata Party as it had along with its then ally Janata Dal-United bagged majority of seats in last assembly polls.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
While Congress criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government for being "insensitive", saying yoga, a great discipline of ancient India, does not belong to the saffron party, Janata Dal-United termed it as yet another attempt to "impose the communal agenda" on Indian masses.
White House said Trump strongly believed that protecting environment and 'promoting our economy are not mutually exclusive goals'.
Swamped by Korean films dubbed in Mizo language, the film industry in Mizoram hopes that whichever party comes to power after polls should allocate more funds for its development.
Modi govt must implement few policy measures which it announced in Budget 2015.
Several SP leaders fear Muslim voters may shift loyalty, which will benefit rivals like the BJP.
Following the Budget being announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, leaders across the political spectrum provided their views.
Pakistan's hawkish Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who did little to change the force's India-centric stance, will leave the world's sixth-largest army grappling with a host of security challenges when he steps down on Friday.
Manish Sisodia's elevation as Delhi CM would set Arvind Kejriwal free to take up a significant role in national politics, or he could return to activism, says Sudhir Bisht.
Demonetisation hit informal sector hard and caused job losses which was not addressed by the budget, Moily said.
An international tribunal in the Hague has ruled in favour of the Philippines.
The world had lost an opportunity to know long-term toxic effects of Methyl Isocyanate which had leaked from the Union Carbide factory on the night of December 2, 1984, because government research agencies have lost track of a bulk of survivors, says Dinesh C Sharma.
Despite the recent electoral reverses, Rahul is getting ready to walk the fire once more. The question is whether he will get burned or burnished in the process, says Saroj Nagi.
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