Politics

He thanked PM Modi, Union Home Minister and BJP chief Amit Shah and acting BJP president JP Nadda.

The month-long political impasse in Maharashtra ended dramatically earlier in the day with the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Devendra Fadnavis taking oath as the chief minister.

The comments came after BJP's Devendra Fadnavis and NCP leader Ajit Pawar took oath as the Maharashtra chief minister and deputy chief minister, respectively, on Saturday.

The NCP supremo said he only learnt about Ajit Pawar, his nephew, becoming the deputy CM in the morning.

During a recent administrative meeting, a visibly angry Mamata Banerjee came down heavily on the Police Superintendent for failing to control the rallies by the BJP backed Jharkhand’s Disom Party in Malda North.

The controversial comment comes at the backdrop of recent killings of Maoists in alleged fake encounters and the arrest of two student CPM activists under the anti-terror UAPA for their alleged Maoist leanings.

The AAP slammed the three BJP MPs from Delhi, Harsh Vardhan, Hans Raj Hans and Ramesh Bidhuri, who did not attend the discussion on air pollution in the Lok Sabha.

Roy said he was at loss to understand this because Kumar had returned to the NDA fold in July 2017 and formed a coalition ministry in Bihar.

Pradip Kumar Patnaik, who formed the outfit this month, has criticised Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and looks set to take on party candidate Prem Chandra Jha for the assembly seat on November 25.

In the wake of the Supreme Court judgment on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri masjid land title dispute on November 9, Thackeray had announced he would visit the temple town in Uttar Pradesh on November 24.

Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and others have been accused of paying just Rs 50 lakh through which YI obtained the ownership of the Associated Journals Limited (AJL), which owed Rs 90.25 crore to the Congress.

Along with a group of BJP leaders, Lakshman staged a protest at Tank Bund as part of BJP’s nation-wide call against Rahul Gandhi for his campaign against the rafale deal and the Centre.

The five-phase assembly elections will commence on November 30 and end on December 20 with counting taking place on December 23.

Noting that the economy slows down every three years but it will pick up soon, the Minister of State for Railways said 'some people' are trying to malign the image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The People's Republican Party MLC Jogendra Kawade also said that the Shiv Sena's move to snap ties with the BJP in Maharashtra was a courageous decision.

The air quality remained in the severe category on Thursday and the Delhi-NCR region shrouded by a thick layer of toxic smog.