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TopicBharatiya Janata Party

Topic: Bharatiya Janata Party

Bihar, Rajasthan ministers’ health tips for kids—buffalo milk makes you ‘bhrasht’, meat ‘violent’

Bihar govt to ban open sale of meat near educational institutes, religious places, crowded areas for 'social harmony, hygiene'. Rajasthan minister says cow milk makes kids intelligent.

2 neighbouring states allow Muslims to leave work early for Ramzan. 1 faces ‘anti-secularist’ barb

Islamic scholars in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh have decided that the 40-day festival will be observed starting 19 February.

Nitin Nabin’s appointment as the BJP President is a selection, not an election

Nitin Nabin’s appointment shows that BJP is like other political parties, where party elites decide the head of the party organisation by strictly controlling the election process.

‘Why talk only about Umar Khalid?’ RSS leader flags ‘quick bail’ to Mohammed Zubair at interfaith meet

Addressing a programme organised by the Harmony Foundation of India in New Delhi, RSS outreach wing head Ramlal says Congress has made the BJP the Sangh’s only option.

BJP gets new working president. Who is Nitin Nabin, Bihar minister raised in BJYM nursery

Nabin will replace J.P. Nadda. Nadda had also been appointed the national working president as an understudy before being named the full-fledged president.

BJP defends Sanchar Saathi—‘Govt doesn’t want to snoop on you, app cannot read your messages’

Row has erupted over Centre’s directive to manufacturers & importers to pre-install the app on every smartphone sold in India within 90 days. Oppn calls it ‘Big Boss moment’.

From ‘khaki to saffron’: Once Kerala’s trailblazing IPS, ‘Raid Sreelekha’ eyes panchayat win with BJP

Five years post-retirement, R. Sreelekha is set to contest Kerala's upcoming Panchayat polls from Thiruvananthapuram’s Sasthamangalam ward.

Bihar polls & the complex caste dynamic: How parties are sticking to tried-and-tested strategies

As Bihar goes to polls next month, there is a sense of political déjà vu. Distribution of tickets reflects how the parties have not strayed from their traditional support base.

Congress’s Pawan Khera gets EC showcause notice after BJP targets him for ‘holding two voter IDs’

This comes amid Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's attacks on the Centre & the ECI for 'vote chori'—the focus of his recent Voter Adhikar Yatra in poll-bound Bihar.

Politics marked by paradoxes: Anatomy of BJP’s ‘Jat dilemma’

New Delhi: Days after Satya Pal Malik, the former governor of Jammu and Kashmir passed away, a Sarva Khap Panchayat was held at Charkhi...

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.