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Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 18: Kerala Police has registered a case against BJP state President P S Sreedharan Pillai for his alleged anti-Islam remarks. The case has been registered under Sections 153 and 153 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on a complaint by CPI(M) leader V Sivankutty. Section 153 A deals with 'Promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth

Chennai, Apr 18: Around 500 voters in Nagaraja Kandigai village in the Tiruvallur Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu boycotted the election in protest against the functioning of a polluting sponge iron factory in their locality, said an official. "We have asked the company to stop all its operations at its factory... Talks are on with the villages to convince them to participate in the electoral

New Delhi, Apr 18: A man flung shoes at BJP leaders addressing a press conference at the party's headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. It was not immediately clear why the person, who identified himself as a doctor by profession, threw the shoes. He was immediately bundled out by security guards at the party office and will be handed over to police. At the time of the incident, BJP leaders

New Delhi, Apr 18: Polling began Thursday morning for 95 Lok Sabha seats spread across 11 states and the union territory of Puducherry with Tamil Nadu witnessing contest in 38 constituencies. Voting was also underway in 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha and in 18 assembly seats in Tamil Nadu. Prominent faces in the fray in the Lok Sabha contest are Union ministers Jitendra Singh, Jual Oram

New Delhi, Apr 18: Jet Airways will temporarily suspend all flights operations from tonight after it failed to secure interim funding of ₹400 crore for maintaining even bare minimum operations, sources said on Wednesday. The airline currently only operated five aircraft with over 25 flights. The development assumes significance as just a day before the airline's lenders said that they remain

Bhopal, Apr 17: The BJP on Wednesday fielded Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, facing trial in the Malegaon blasts case, from the Bhopal parliamentary constituency, where she is set to have a direct contest with Congress heavyweight and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh. Ms. Thakur, who is out on bail, joined the BJP only hours before her name was announced as the Bhopal candidate

New Delhi, Apr 17: Advocate Prashant Bhushan has resigned from the governing bodies of NGOs Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), Common Cause and Swaraj Abhiyan. Bhushan said in a tweet: "People are asking if I have resigned from Common Cause, CPIL and Swaraj Abhiyan. I have resigned from the GBs (governing bodies) of these since the Bar Council was hounding me citing a rule that I can't

Jaipur, Apr 17: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday said Ram Nath Kovind was made the president of the country to balance caste equations ahead of the assembly election in Gujarat in 2017. "People even say that Ram Nath Kovind was made president considering Gujarat assembly elections in 2017. I was reading an article. He (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) was afraid that he was not

Tasgaon, Apr 17: Kashmir is an integral part of India and it would continue to remain so as long as the BJP exists, party president Amit Shah said here on Wednesday. Shah's remarks came at a poll rally, in response to National Conference leader Omar Abdullah's recent suggestion of having a separate prime minister for Kashmir. "No one can take away Kashmir from us. As long as the BJP exists

Akluj, Apr 17: Putting a new spin on Rahul Gandhi's "why are all Modis thieves" remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Congress president, by making the jibe, had maligned the backward community he hails from. Addressing a poll rally here, Modi also slammed the "dynastic politics" of Sharad Pawar and claimed the NCP chief had "fled" the poll arena from Madha Lok Sabha