Bangla infiltration: BJP whitewash Didi ‘blueprint' claim

Bangla infiltration: BJP whitewash Didi ‘blueprint' claim

Saturday, 04 January 2025 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

As Bengal politics sparked over Bangladeshi infiltration the State BJP on Friday hit back at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after she accused the Centre and BSF for encouraging infiltrations. The State BJP said the infiltrators were Banerjee's vote bank. Launching a scathing attack on Banerjee for her "malicious campaign" junior Union...

Delhi Police uncovers immigration racket

Friday, 03 January 2025 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Delhi Police has uncovered a large-scale illegal immigration racket involving Bangladeshi nationals and arrested four people, including two persons from the neighbouring country who allegedly entered India illegally.  The other two arrested are accused of facilitating the Bangladeshi nationals' unlawful immigration and document fabrication.

SC slams Punjab over Misleading claims on Dallewal

Friday, 03 January 2025 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Punjab Government and said its officials and some farmer leaders are creating a false impression in media that attempts are being made to break farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal's fast. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan said it needs...

Mamata accuses BSF of allowing infiltrators from Bangladesh to India

Friday, 03 January 2025 | Pioneer News Service | Kolkata / New Delhi

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Border Security Force (BSF) of letting infiltrators from Bangladesh enter India and charged the BSF with trying to destabilise the state. Stating that she could sense a "blueprint of the central government behind this attitude of the BSF", Banerjee also accused...

AAP-BJP lock horns over farmers

Friday, 03 January 2025 | Rajesh Kumar | New Delhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)  and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are locked in a letter war over the farmers issue. Senior BJP leader and Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan wrote a letter to Delhi chief minister Atishi and criticised the AAP government for not implementing several pro-farmer schemes...

Bangladesh court denies bail for ISKCON monk over sedition

Friday, 03 January 2025 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

A court in the southeastern port city of Chattogram on Thursday denied bail to Hindu monk and former ISKCON leader Chinmoy Krishna Das in a sedition case. A group of 11 lawyers stood for him with a bail petition during the hearing for which Das appeared virtually.“The hearing continued for...

Omar defends statehood demand, cites legal and political necessity

Friday, 03 January 2025 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

Newly elected Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah Thursday reignited the debate surrounding the 'Kashmir issue' by claiming the issue still exists, whether on this side of the border or the other. In his maiden interaction with the media in Srinagar, Omar also expressed hope...

Munde refuses to resign amid sarpanch murder controversy

Friday, 03 January 2025 | TN RAGHUNATHA | Mumbai

Maharashtra Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (AP) leader Dhananjay Munde -- who is in the eye of a controversy over the sensational murder of  a Sarpanch in his home district of Beed – on Thursday refused to resign from his post, a couple days after prime accused in the murder...

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