Politics

Maharashtra claims Belgaum, part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency but currently a district of Karnataka, on linguistic grounds.

Tapping on the trend, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday released a short video clip that says 'Rinkiya has unmasked the lies' — an attack on Kejriwal and the 'failure of its government to provide clean water to Delhi'.

Veteran Trinamool Congress leader Sougata Roy applauded Kerala for passing the resolution against Citizenship Amendment Act in an organised manner.

Yoganand Shastri alleged tickets for Delhi Assembly polls were being 'sold' by Delhi unit office-bearers.

Giving examples of nightlife in London and Indore city of Madhya Pradesh, Aaditya Thackeray said Mumbai, too, should not lag behind in providing similar facilities to people at night as the metropolis functions 24x7.

In keeping with his penchant for abusive attacks on opponents, Ghosh called intellectuals 'creatures' and said that they live and enjoy out of 'other's pockets', but have turned a blind eye to the 'torture of their predecessors in Bangladesh.'

Talking to reporters, Delhi Congress chief Subhash Chopra said through its theme song, the party will tell people about 'prosperous Delhi' during the 15-year tenure of the Sheila Dikshit government.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in its list released earlier this week, has fielded four Muslim candidates.

The list, announced by Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, includes sitting MLA Vijender Gupta, former mayors Ravinder Gupta and Yogender Chandolia, and former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra. It also includes 11 Scheduled Caste and four women candidates.

In the papers submitted during the nomination for 2015 Delhi polls, the senior AAP leader had declared that he owned a Maruti Swift car of make 2013.

Sisodia's retort came hours after Union minister Prakash Javadekar blamed the AAP government's "negligence" for the "delay" in the hanging of the four convicts.

Kiren Rijiju was speaking at the closing ceremony of the five-day 23rd National Youth Festival (NYF), which started on January 12 in Lucknow.

The Aam Aadmi Party has dropped 15 sitting MLAs from its list of 70 candidates for the February 8 Assembly election and given ticket to a total of 24 first-timers.

Main opposition Aam Aadmi Party MLAs led by Leader of Opposition Harpal Singh Cheema also raised slogans against the Amarinder Singh government targeting it on various issues.

Electoral bonds were first notified in January 2018 by the then finance minister Arun Jaitley and its first tranche had gone for sale in March the same year.

Kerala on Tuesday became the first state to challenge the amended citizenship law after the government filed a suit in the Supreme Court, seeking a direction to declare the contentious legislation unconstitutional.