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The vandalisation of the plaque triggered tension between the TDA and YSRC workers, necessitating deployment of police to avert clash between the rival party workers, they said.

Shutters were down in most of the shops and establishments during the 12-hour shutdown in Basirhat, around 70 km from Kolkata.

Bhatti Vikramarka, leader of the Congress legislature party, ended his fast at the state-run NIMS as the continuing it would pose a threat to his life.

Gandhi is on a thanksgiving visit to Wayanad, which has sent him to Parliament this time with a massive victory margin of 4.31 lakh votes.

Prahlad Joshi, who had earlier met Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and DMK’s TR Baalu, met Sonia Gandhi for around 15 minutes.

The session, the first of the 17th Lok Sabha, will go on till July 26 and the budget will be tabled on July 5.

Congress and JD(S) leaders are making all efforts to save the government, with even plans of cabinet expansion, fearing the BJP might revive efforts to topple it encouraged by the spectacular win in the Lok Sabha polls in which it won 25 of the 28 seats i...

If the Speaker accepts their request, the Congress may lose the Opposition party status as its strength will come down to just six.

JKPCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said that Congress favours early delimitation in a time-bound manner and completion of the process before the conduct of assembly elections in the state.

The press conference by deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot came after he was cornered with much criticism for his role in, and the result of, the Lok Sabha poll.

BJP's Jual Oram won from Sundergarh defeating Sunita Biswal of the ruling BJD by over 2 lakh votes while George Tirkey finished third. There were eight candidates in the seat.

The Trinamool Congress supremo and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee launched an attack on the saffron party, saying that it had replaced its 'Jai Shree Ram' slogan with 'Jai Maa Kali' given a downward slide after the elections.

Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said the names of all defaulters should be made public and urged the government to stop "putting pressure" on the Reserve Bank of India to withhold the names.

The 66-year-old BJP MP from North Goa, who was re-inducted in the Modi ministry in its second innings, said the country stands united in its fight against terrorism.

As per a Supreme Court directive, May 30 was the deadline to submit the details. Last month, the EC had written to all recognised political parties to comply with the SC directives.

A decade ago, AP Abdullakutty, an MP from Kannur, faced expulsion from CPI (M) after he extolled the Gujarat Model of Development mooted by Narendra Modi, the then Chief Minister of Gujarat.