The Delhi CM wrote to Modi on the fourth day of the sit-in he and his ministers are holding at Baijal's office, demanding that the L-G direct the IAS officers to end their "strike" and act against those who have struck work.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said there is no alternative to the Trinamool Congress, and no other party can take its place in the state.
RJD MLA Dinesh Bhai has threatened to immolate himself if he does not get to keep his assembly seat.
So far, the maximum 83 deaths have taken place in Tarn Taran district, followed by 14 in Batala and 13 in Amritsar. The tragedy has been unfolding since Wednesday evening in the three districts.
"Centre and state will soon begin the process of giving reservation, following the Delhi High court order," Khattar told reporters in a joint press conference along with All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti chairperson Yashpal Malik.
'It is undemocratic and shows fascist tendencies.'
Gupta tried to raise the issue of alleged corruption in land deals involving Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Public Works Department Minister Satyendra Jain.
Dausa Member of Parliament Kirori Lal Meena, who was on a dharna in Jaipur seeking justice for a tribal woman allegedly raped by an Indian Police Service officer about 13 years ago, was arrested along with 13 others in the wee hours of Wednesday.
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'The most serious issue is that of shooting a lawyer in the chest. That news has been buried.'
'People belonging to all religions reside in our country and this is our strength that they stay together as a team. Why should you exclude (them)?'
Naidu also termed the dharna by opposition leaders near the Gandhi statue in Parliament premises as a big tamasha and an insult to the Father of the Nation.
Interacting with a group of teachers from All Guest Teachers Association teaching in different government schools and paid on daily basis, who have been sitting on a dharna for around three weeks at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, Kejriwal said: "Hunger strike won't help you. Don't trouble your body. I used to do this for 15 days and then I finally decided to enter politics."
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who sat on a two-day dharna outside Rail Bhavan, is unwell and undergoing tests at a hospital in Ghaziabad on Wednesday.
The TRS on Tuesday alleged that the Centre was being 'insensitive' in not bifurcating the high court so far.
'BJP leaders are trying to save their lives in Punjab.'
'We are patriots who love India and the secular ideals it has always upheld.'
The CBI's new boss has never served in the Bureau.
Party's state unit chiefs of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat were also detained along with the workers during the protests.
Targeting the Aam Admi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday accused Arvind Kejriwal of becoming an expert of "dumping issues half-way" and running away from answering questions.
Violence erupted after some students, protesting against the alleged eve-teasing incident, wanted to meet the vice chancellor at his residence, according to police and university sources.
The feud in the family -- brother versus brother, sister versus brother, and daughter versus mother -- is an open secret. In the absence of the patriarch, there is no one to compose their differences, reports Satyavrat Mishra.
'Why shouldn't we talk against the BJP when it is solely responsible for bringing in these three laws by riding rough over Parliamentary procedures and norms?' 'We will talk against the BJP because it is the sole political party responsible for pushing these destructive farm laws'
Addressing a press conference, farmer leader Gurnam Singh Chadoni said if the Centre does not accept their demands during Saturday's talks, they will intensify their agitation against the new farm laws.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday stoked a potential controversy when he called Arvind Kejriwal a Veda Mukhyamantri (mad chief minister), while recalling his own days in the police force.
The panel will look into issues related to compliance procedure.
Train and bus services between Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh remained suspended or disrupted even as Gujjars of Madhya Pradesh staged a dharna at many places on Monday in support of the agitation by their community in Rajasthan to press for Scheduled Tribe status.
The ten central trade unions have demanded a cash transfer of Rs 7,500 a month to all families that do not pay income tax, free ration of 10 kg per head in a month to all the needy, expansion of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment scheme to cover more days of job, withdrawal of labour codes and farm bills, halt on privatisation, universal pension coverage and withdrawal of "draconian" circular on forced premature retirement of government officials.
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Traffic was thrown out of gear in the city as BSP workers, raising slogans and carrying placards, thronged the area.
Amid repeated calls to party workers to peacefully hold the indefinite dharna over the Singur land issue, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said her party did not want the Tatas to leave, but to restrict its small car factory in Singur to 600 acres.
The top court issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi government seeking their responses on the issue.
'This is against the Constitution and we will oppose it tooth and nail.'
Haasan said that interference in the functioning of an elected government is 'unacceptable in a democracy'.
The magnificent Jat community has taken his tears to its heart, observes Sudhir Bisht. In Tikait, they see their late leader's son, the son of their doughty farm leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, says Dr Sudhir Bisht.
'Ambedkar made a Constitution which provided different powers to the state and central governments. Today Narendra Modi wants to destroy that Constitution'
The chief minister said Najeeb, who has been missing for over two weeks now, will come back only when Prime Minister Narendra Modi could be made to realise that he is losing votes over the issue.
The Bharatiya Janata Party versus Election Commission row escalated on Thursday with party workers protesting outside the Benaras Hindu University in Varanasi.
Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) supporters stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway on Friday as the crowd swelled there, notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration's ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site where security force in large numbers was re-deployed.
A quick look at the 66-year-old leader's political journey in the mid-1970s shows how injuries and physical assaults have shaped her political career over the years.
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