Mumbai/Ahmednagar: Former union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and social crusader Anna Hazare on Monday strongly criticized the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre and in Maharashtra for letting down the farmers.
Mumbai: BJP MP Poonam Mahajan on Monday said that Maharashtra farmers’ protest was being propelled by ‘urban Maoists.’
Bhatkal: A special team of Bhatkal district police arrested a student of a prestigious college and filed complaints on several others on the charges of editing Hindu-Muslim classmates' selfie photos so as to present them as Love Jihad cases.
Patna: The Congress in Bihar has alleged that there was a large-scale EVM fraud in favour of the BJP candidate in one of the seats taht went for bypolls on Sunday.
New Delhi: The NIA has summoned former Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang for questioning in connection with an alleged "tax collection and terror funding" case.
Dehradhun: The Uttarakhand Police on Sunday charged an MLA of the Bharatiya Janata Party with criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt, after a video purportedly showed him beating up and hurling casteist abuses at two Dalit women.
United Nations: Under-Secretary-General Jeffrey Feltman has condemned the violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka and urged the government to bring those behind the attacks and hate speech to justice.
Nay Pyi Taw: Amnesty International released a report on Monday condemning the escalating militarisation in Myanmar's Rakhine state, from which at least 688,000 people from the Rohingya Muslim minority have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Lucknow: Poor polling percentage was recorded in the by-polls for the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials said.
