'His biggest contribution as defence minister was to change the rules of bringing martyred soldiers' bodies home.'
And one big, angry family, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The central government forces are supporting one group and the state government forces are supporting another group and this is resulting in non-stop cross-firing, which has resulted in the killing of many innocent people.'
'If they don't make Ajit Pawar chief minister, what can he do?'
'The cousins do not have a good rapport with each other in politics, though they may be having a good rapport with each other in family life.'
'Israel has received an extremely hard and rude reminder that it cannot go ahead and talk of normalisation of relations with other Arab countries without addressing the issues pertaining to Palestine.'
'For free supply of drugs and medicines itself, almost Rs 20,000 crores would be required.'
'Switching loyalty from one party to another is completely unfair as it devalues my vote.'
Even as a teen, Syed Firdaus Ashraf was terrified about losing his hair. So here's what he did.
'This committee underscores the Indian State's longstanding conventional approach to leverage top-down conflict management in North East India in general and Manipur in particular.' 'Trying to 'manage' violent conflicts top-down has not worked in the past, and apparently does not seem to work this time either.'
'If you make a film for Bihar and UP, Mumbai audiences reject it and vice versa.'
'We cannot accept that this incident was not in the knowledge of the home ministry.' 'If they had no knowledge about this incident, then it is a big intelligence failure as the Union home ministry has no idea what is going on in Manipur and what the state police is doing.'
'Political narrative in our country today is tilted towards Hindutva orientation and so Kejriwal becomes very dangerous to the BJP.' 'For them, he is a leader to watch.'
'Deeply hurt by Modi's conspicuous silence for over a month-and-a-half since the outbreak of violence, people in Manipur came on the roads and crushed their radio sets to express their frustration and anger.' 'The fact that Modi's Mann Ki Baat did not have a single reference to the Manipur violence further accentuated this hurt and anger.'
'The wife will not only abuse her husband for giving her less money, but also abuse the government.' 'Look at the price of a cooking gas cylinder, it is Rs 1,200.'
When I approached Shah Rukh, my palms were sweaty. I didn't know what to say to him. But there is\n\nalways a first time.
...It was original, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'The BJP has 106 MLAs and Eknath Shinde claims the support of 40 MLAs. So why are they both not forming the government right now in Mumbai? Why the delay?' Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf reports.
In his second term in office, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has retained 34 portfolios.
'...to address the serious faultlines that had got exposed during the pandemic.' 'If the economy is looking up this year, we could have been allocated an increase of at least 20%.'
'When the Congress is put against someone like Narendra Modi, they do not have anything new to offer to the people of India.'
Bobby Deol talks about his next film, Ab Tumhare
Apart from Kerala, in no state did the Grand Old Party scored in double digits.
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