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New Delhi, Apr 4: Veteran BJP leader L K Advani said on Thursday that his party has never regarded those who disagreed with it politically as "anti-national" or "enemies" but only as adversaries. His views assume significance at a time when the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah have made the issue of national security a key plank for the general elections and

Noida, Apr 4: He adopted their village, represents them in the Lok Sabha after they broke tradition to vote for him, but Union minister Mahesh Sharma is now strictly persona non grata in Kachera with slogans and posters making it abundantly clear he’s not welcome any more. The protests, which started following a standoff with a realty group and spilled into anguish over the lack of development in

New Dehli, Asserting that her brother Rahul Gandhi is the "most courageous" man she knows, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday urged the people of Wayanad to "take care" of him. Her appeal to the people of Wayanad came after AICC president Rahul Gandhi filed nomination from the parliamentary constituency in Kerala. "My brother, my truest friend, and by far the most

New Delhi, Apr 4: If Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins this spring's general election, as is widely expected, it will also be another massive victory for the marketing machine created to amplify Brand Modi into every Indian living room. Opinion polls regularly show Modi is India's most popular politician, and to turn that appeal into votes, his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pulled out

Wayanad, Apr 4: Congress president Rahul Gandhi, accompanied by his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, is here to file his nomination paper for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat. Rahul is contesting from the seat in Kerala in addition to his traditional stronghold of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. He reached Wayanad Thursday morning in a helicopter from Kozhikode, where he was staying at a guest house after

New Delhi, Apr 4: The Madras High Court on Wednesday asked the government to ban Chinese video app TikTok, saying it was "encouraging pornography". Created by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co, TikTok allows users to create and share short videos with special effects. It has become hugely popular in rural India, home to most of the country’s 1.3 billion people. Jokes, clips and footage related to

New Delhi, Apr 3: State-owned telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is likely to cut as many as 54,000 employees as the board of the company has approved a retrenchment plan, according to media reports. The board is likely to take a final decision on this after the Lok Sabha elections. The telco’s board has given the green signal to three out of 10 suggestions recommended by

New Delhi, Apr 3: About 1,700 Jan Dhan bank accounts in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad district have come under the scanner of the Election Commission-deployed surveillance teams for receiving suspicious deposits during the poll season, officials said. They said about ₹10,000 each, totalling about ₹1.7 crore, have been deposited in these accounts over the past few days and the instances have come under

Thrissur, Apr 3: Ending the uncertainity prevailed over the last few days, actor and Rajya Sabha MP Suresh Gopi’s name has been cleared by the central leadership as BJP’s candidate for Thrissur Parliamentary constituency. Earlier, BJDS nominee Tushar Vellappalli’s name was decided forThrissur, but after his shift to Wayanad to fight against Congress President Rahul Gandhi from there,necessitated a

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 3: In the backdrop of repeated instances of Maoist presence, security has been tightened in Wayanad where Congress President Rahul Gandhi is contesting the April 23 Lok Sabha election. Rahul Gandhi will file his nominations papers from Wayanad on Thursday after a roadshow along with his sister Priyanka Vadra, who is also the AICC general secretary incharge of eastern Uttar