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Andhra Pradesh Pratyeka Hoda Saadhana Samiti is observing a one-day statewide bandh today over the demand of Special Status for the state. Opposition parties such as the Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP), Jana Sena, Congress and the Left parties have also extended their support to the shutdown.
BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the accused in the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl in Unnao, was detained by CBI on Friday. The development comes a day after the Uttar P...
The BJP released its first list of 72 candidates for the 12 May Karnataka Assembly Election, which included prominent names such as the party's chief ministerial fac...
As the battle between Karnakata and Tamil Nadu intensifies over the Cauvery issue, actors turned politicians Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan joined a protest in Chennai, dem...
05, Apr 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
The Opposition-sponsored bandh in Tamil Nadu disrupted public life in the state and in Pondicherry. Protests, fasts and demonstrations are being held against the Union government's failure to form the Cauvery Management Board.Read News
29, Mar 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik on Thursday said that the decision to add Dr B.R. Ambedkar's middle name 'Ramji' in state records was taken by the government as some states were writing his name incorrectly. On the recommendation of Naik, the Uttar Pradesh Government has passed an order to officially introduce 'Ramji' as the middle name of Dr B.R. Ambedkar in all documents and records in the state. Read News
28, Mar 2018, by : FnF Desk
Most major markets in the city were closed today as traders downed shutters to voice their protest against the sealing drive. A large number of traders, their family members and employees gathered at the Ramlila grounds to participate in a mega rally to mark their protest at the attack on their livelihoods, trade association leaders said.Read News
19, Mar 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
The Karnataka government accepted the suggestions of Nagamohan Das committee to form a separate religion status of the Lingayats community. The decision came just a few months before the state assembly elections. Read News
16, Mar 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
N Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party (TDP) walked out of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the Centre's denial of a special-category status to Andhra Pradesh.Read News
15, Mar 2018, by : FnF Correspondent
BJP's Mission 2019 got a major scare as the party received a stunning blow as it lost the prestigious Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh to the Samajwadi Party, supported by the BSP, and Araria Lok Sabha to the RJD in Bihar.Read News
The much awaited Gujarat verdict is pronounced and BJP has romped home with a wafer thin majority thereby creating history in India's electoral journey by winning six consecutive elections. The political pundits/analysts' are interpreting the result as per their convenience and understanding.
During his campaign for the 2017 Gujarat elections, Rahul Gandhi's temple run mostly skirted areas where the minority vote lay. Even when passing through such areas,...
Winston Churchill's observation that America can be depended upon to do the right thing after it has tried all the other alternatives is applicable to most countries...
The biggest challenge and the top priority in Kashmir are to deradicalize Kashmiri youth and militants and prevent it from turning into a Syria of India, says Dineshwar S...
30, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
Nitish Kumar in his earlier stint as the chief minister, had become a larger than life figure because of his success in controlling lawlessness in the state and preparing the ground for development. As a result, he was even seen as a possible player on the national stage.Read News
16, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
Nitish Kumar is in a bind. He knows that the mahagathbandhan or grand alliance in Bihar is fraying at the edges, but he doesn't know which way to turn. Read News
09, Jul 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
It is strange that despite past examples of the incendiary potential of linguistic chauvinism, politicians still pursue the same fateful path.Read News
30, May 2017, by : Amulya Ganguli
There is a long way to go before Uttar Pradesh can become Uttam Pradesh, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised after his party's massive victory in the assembly elections. Read News
28, May 2017, by : Abheet Singh Sethi
There have been 42% more terrorism-related deaths in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) since the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government (BJP) came to power in May 2014, compared with the last three years of the second term of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA-II).Read News
23, May 2017, by : FnF Desk
Two months is not a long time in politics to fall from grace, especially when a landslide of public support has propelled you to powerRead News
by : Priti Prakash
Independence was a painful journey that got with it death, destruction, migration, division, sacrifi...
by : Satya Narayan Sahu
Today is observed as Ambedkar Jayanti. While in JNU in late 1970s we never studied about Ambedkar. ...
by : Rajeshwar Singal
This may sound like a dilemma, but it is not far from truth. Conduct Rules are meant to govern condu...
by : Sunita Narain
The idea of secularism is this very idea of India which respects the equality of all. Of course, wit...
by : Ravi Kishore
Today every one is talking about judicial accountability i.e. how the whole system of judiciary is t...
by : Surya Mohan Dubey
Continuous deadly events happening every now and then prove that Indian Government has utterly faile...
