Politics

Through the revised policy, the government is planning to raise at least Rs 2,000 crore extra from excise collection in 2020-21, said a senior tax department official.

The source of funding of these protesters would come out soon, Dilip Ghosh said alleging that these protests have been planned in order to malign India's image during US President Donald Trump's ongoing visit.

Vijayapura MLA, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, called 102-year-old HS Doreswamy, who has criticised the BJP on various issues in the past, a fake freedom fighter who behaves like a Pakistan agent.

The Rajya Sabha MP also hit out at the Centre for setting up a new trust, despite one being formed during the tenure of the late prime minister PV Narasimha Rao.

Singh holds one of the three Rajya Sabha seats in the state that will fall vacant in April. Both Singh and Scindia are said to be keen on grabbing them.

Uddhav Thackeray asked why no 'terrorist' (assailant) involved in the attack on students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) last month has been arrested so far by the BJP-ruled Centre.

Addressing a meeting of Bhim Army workers at the Reshimbaug Ground in Nagpur, located close to the RSS headquarters, the Bhim Army chief demanded ban on the Sangh to end "Manuvad".

Accused Hasan Koti made the comments in a video after coming to know that MNS workers, in their so-called anti-Bangladeshi infiltrator drive, were going door-to-door in Malvani asking people for identity documents, an official said.

Protest groups in the state questioned Telangana government's nod to Amit Shah's rally at a time when many anti-CAA rallies were previously not allowed to take place.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee drew criticism from veteran CPI(M) leader Amiya Patra who also blamed the Trinamool Congress for Pal's death.

Three days after he took oath as the chief minister of Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday afternoon.

The former Union minister also said the Elgar Parishad case and the case of violence at Koregaon-Bhima in Pune district on January 1, 2018, were two completely different cases.

In a statement, the NGO said, Delhi Election Watch and ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all the seven-party leaders including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Bypolls to over 12,500 panchayats in Jammu & Kashmir will be held in eight phases from March 5 to March 20.

Sanjay Singh's remarks came on a day the Supreme Court said the blockade of a public road at Shaheen Bagh is 'troubling us' and suggested that the protesters go to another site where no public place would be blocked.

Babulal Marandi said the CAA is for Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, Buddhists and Parsis who had faced persecution for several years in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and there was no reason for the natives to fear it.