-The Telegraph Kairana: Ganna, the sugarcane crop, is threatening to overshadow any talk of "Jinnah" and sour the BJP's chances in Monday's test against a combined Opposition in a corner of western Uttar Pradesh. After the shock setbacks in Gorakhpur and Phulpur in March, the Kairana Lok Sabha by-election has become crucial for the BJP. It's also critical for its rivals, offering a test, days after the Karnataka drama, of whether a united...
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SP has highest income among 32 regional parties, shows study
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The total income of 32 regional political parties in 2016-17 was Rs 321 crore with the Samajwadi Party (SP) getting the highest at Rs 82.7 crore, says a report by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR). These regional parties declared a total expenditure of Rs 435.48 crore during the year, ADR added in the report. Of these 32 parties, 17 showed Rs 114.45 crore collectively as...
More »Crime against women on the rise in UP, says Yogi government -Aman Sharma
-The Economic Times Two sisters, aged 17 and 13, were shot dead in Etawah in Uttar Pradesh on Monday night by a man who was stalking the elder sister for several months now. He had been booked by the police in an FIR, but got out on bail. The younger girl was shot as she was a witness to her sister’s murder. This is just a continuation of a series of crimes...
More »Under Modi Government, VIP Hate Speech Skyrockets - By 500% -Nimisha Jaiswal, Sreenivasan Jain and Manas Pratap Singh
-NDTV NDTV scanned nearly 1,300 articles and cross-referenced this with databases. We went through 1,000 recent tweets of politicians and public figures. New Delhi: The use of hateful and divisive language by high-ranking politicians has increased almost 500% in the past four years, an NDTV data collection exercise has found. The premise of the exercise was simple: it seems not a day, or a week goes by without some senior politician -...
More »Does Aadhaar FIR name journalist? Yes, no -Sanjay K Jha
-The Telegraph New Delhi: Different answers by two Union ministers to the same question have left the "victim" bewildered. The conflicting answers have both been given in Parliament, making a mockery of the principle of "collective responsibility" of the government. While information technology and law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had on February 2 stated that an FIR had been registered against unknown persons over a newspaper report on Aadhaar data breach, junior home...
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