On the Islamic State-style video sent by the ULFA-I to TV news channels, the DGP said it was the first time that such a video has been received.
'The TMC has become a private limited company.'
Fortune favours the brave and he has done well by taking risks and winning it all, says Aditi Phadnis.
Senior NCP leader R R Patil or 'Aaba', was a quintessential grass root politician
'Look at what happened to the BJP in that India Shining episode in 2004.'
The incident comes two days after the Bharatiya Janata Party claimed that its worker Trilochon Mahato, 20, who was found hanging from a tree at Balarampur in the district on May 30, was killed by the Trinamool Congress. However, the Trinamool Congress has denied the allegations and termed it as baseless.
'There is no future for the Shiv Sena under Uddhavji's leadership.'
Unless the merger is reversed, the Congress is set to lose its Opposition Party status in the state assembly.
Kerala has recorded 24 cases including two foreign nationals.
The proposal is currently with the finance department and is expected to be placed before the Cabinet in the coming days.
'When you have a village which is controlled by the BJP, who are the people likely to perpetrate the attack?'
"The post-mortem report said it was a case of asphyxia due to ante-mortem hanging and suicidal in nature," the SP said.
Amid rising coronavirus cases in India, the government has asked people not to panic, saying no community transmission of the virus has been observed and there has only been a few cases of local transmission so far and that it is "not a health emergency" in India at present.
The 124th birth anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar on Tuesday was observed with traditional fervour across Maharashtra.
'We are hoping the preparations we have made will not be needed.'
'Mamata is synonymous with Bengal, its culture, language, traditions.'
Shiv Sena nominee Hemangi Worlikar romped home as the deputy Mayor of BMC.
"The people of Mumbai voted overwhelmingly for the BJP as they believed in our agenda of transparency in the civic administration. Shiv Sena emerged as the single largest party while we were two seats behind them. We did not get the numbers to have a Mayor of our own," Fadnavis told media persons at his official bungalow in Mumbai.
The reasons for the snail's pace at which the commission is proceeding are linked both to the government's indifference to it as well as the indifference of the parties appearing before it.
Union Agriculture Minister and Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar said on Friday there was no Modi wave in the country but argued that the new government at the Centre should be stable in the larger interest of the economy and the country. He observed that development would be a major plank in the run up to the coming parliamentary elections.
As the Odisha CM prepares to face the BJP onslaught, the BJP hopes to rope in some BJD heavyweights.
In Mumbai, 2,275 candidates are in fray for the 227 seats.
With her various overtures and right noises at the right time, Mamata is once again trying to reshape her image from being a regional leader to one with national appeal and acceptability. After all, the charge of building a Federal Front may also bring to the fore Mamata's chances to become prime minister in 2019.
Another minister -- Vinod Tawde -- has been accused of corruption in awarding contracts.
'In a democracy, how can you be scared of Amit Shah?'
Aman Garg, 17 Devansh Kaushik, 17 and Anmol Gupta, 18 share their success journey.
Legislators, bureaucrats feel an impact, with works relating to their constituencies stuck at various levels.
Mayura Janwalkar travels to Kedambe, a tiny village in Maharashtra's Satara district, now better known as 26/11 hero Tukaram Omble's home. An excerpt from 26/11 Stories Of Strength by The Indian Express.
Congress says K Chandrashekhar Rao backstabbed it; Chandrababu Naidu detests him.
'From chaiwala he has now become Rafalewala. He speaks a bunch of lies,' the West Bengal CM said.
'Modi is larger-than-life, but not invincible. Yet,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
After an acrimonious split, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are together again with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday announcing that Sena will be joining his government on Friday 'in keeping with the mandate' and will get 12 ministerial berths but there will be no deputy CM.
'The Left's decline is now a reality, both nationally and in West Bengal.'Behind it lie: Ideological rigidity and confusion, outdated party programmes... a socially conservative upper-caste leadership,' says Praful Bidwai.
The first phase of the crucial panchayat polls in West Bengal will begin on Thursday even as the ruling Trinamool Congress kept up its attack against the State E1lection Commission.
Why are far right Hindu organisations growing in strength? Why is there a rising subscription to Neo-Wahabism, the Saudi Arabian version of contemporary Islam?
The BJP and the Shiv Sena rule the state in coalition, apart from officially being partners in Delhi as well, while also never missing an opportunity to portray each other as a bungler deserving to be dumped.
'The Chennai floods in particular clearly show there is a nexus between corruption, disaster, destruction and death.' 'Urban development in India is the source of all corruption.'
'We have to find a way out of this confrontational politics.'
Ramji Raghavan is using this principle to help village children from government schools enjoy science and maths. Indulekha Aravind reports
BJP President Amit Shah -- arguably the second most powerful politician in the nation -- granted a rare television interview to the Network 18 group of news channels. Rediff.com's Rajesh Alva checks out what the BJP boss said in this word cloud assessment of the interview.
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