In a series of tweets, ex-Tripura & Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy said Vijayvargiya & Dilip Ghosh must answer why the actors who had nothing to do with politics were given BJP tickets.
The BJP alleged that 4 of its workers were killed and over 4,000 houses ransacked after the state assembly poll results as it hit out at Banerjee for violence targeting its members.
BJP alleges 6 of its workers and supporters were killed in the violence, Centre seeks factual report from state govt while Mamata Banerjee calls for calm.
Central BJP leaders say that polarisation didn’t work, and believe Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was helped by the Bengali versus non-Bengali narrative.
Citing a SMS purportedly sent by the poll officer, Mamata Banerjee says she will move court over the election result in Nandigram where she lost to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari.
Of the 148 defectors from Trinamool Congress that got BJP tickets, including over a dozen sitting MLAs, only six have won, leading to more disgruntlement within the saffron party.
Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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