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Address farmer issues or face MP like unrest, Yogi warned
The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government must address the basic problems of farmers at the earliest or prepare to face a "Mandsaur-like situation" in the state, a farmer leader said on Thursday. Taking a dig at the crop loan waiver scheme announced by Yogi Adityanath at his first cabinet meeting, Shekhar Dixit, national president of …
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June 8, 2017 -
5 farmers killed in ‘police firing’, admits MP home minister
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh on Thursday said that the five casualties during farmers' agitation in Mandsaur occurred during police firing. "Five persons were killed in police firing," Singh said over phone. The minister's remarks assume significance as the authorities had been claiming that the police had not fired during protests at Pipliamandi in Mandsaur district …
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June 8, 2017 -
RAF deployed in violence-hit Mandsaur in MP
Contingents of Rapid Action Force (RAF) were on Thursday deployed in Madhya Pradesh's violence- hit Mandsaur district where the situation remained tense. Two companies of RAF, comprising around 100 men each, have moved into Pipliamandi in Mandsaur, the site of Tuesday's shooting of five farmers, police said. While two companies of RAF have been posted in …
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June 8, 2017 -
Ex Congress MP booked for protest against CM Yogi
An FIR has been lodged against former Congress MP from Aligarh Bijendra Singh and 50 others for allegedly breaching peace during the visit of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to the city on June 5. The FIR was lodged on Tuesday, police said on Wednesday. Bijendra Singh described the filing of the case as a "brutal …
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June 7, 2017 -
BJP MP proposes to adopt village hit by caste violence
A BJP MP has sent a proposal to the Centre to adopt Shabbirpur village, which has been witnessing inter-caste clashes, under the Adarsh Gram Yojna. After a meeting with the officials concerned, BJP MP Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma chose the village under scheme and sent a proposal for the same to the central government. He said …
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May 25, 2017 -
Anil Dave: A man passionate about river conservation
An expert in river conservation and a member of the parliamentary forum on global warming, environment was a subject close to the heart of Anil Madhav Dave who was appointed environment minister only last year. Dave was involved in social work right from his early days and founded NGO "Narmada Samagra" for conservation of the …
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May 18, 2017 -
Cabinet changes law to throw out squatters from official houses
The cabinet on Wednesday approved changes in a law to fast track removal of ministers, members of Parliament and bureaucrats over-staying in government-allotted accommodations. People who overstay at official accommodations take recourse in courts, Minister of State for Coal and Power Piyush Goyal told reporters here. The decision to amend the Public Premises (Eviction of …
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May 17, 2017 -
Indian-origin MPs set for tough fight in UK general election
The ten Indian-origin MPs who made it to the House of Commons in the last UK general elections are set for a tough fight in the June 8 polls as Britain's major political parties finalised their list of prospective candidates. While many of those elected in May 2015 are defending quite comfortable margins, the changed …
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May 12, 2017 -
Sacked BJD MP from Odisha joins BJP
Suspended Biju Janata Dal (BJD) MP Jayaram Pangi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, officials said. Pangi along with hundreds of his supporters joined the BJP in the presence of Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and other senior party leaders. The former Koraput MP, suspended from the BJD for alleged anti-party activities, said …
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May 9, 2017 -
Honey trap perpetrator engaged in duping, extortion for over two decades
The woman held for 'honey-trapping' a BJP MP to extort money has been engaged in her sordid activities of entrapment and blackmail for more than two decades now with her first case surfacing in 1993 when she extracted Rs 70,000 from a Uttar Pradesh Police constable, a police officer said on Friday. "She is a …
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May 5, 2017 -
No-fly list will never be tool of harassment: Choubey
The no-fly list will not become a tool of harassment for airlines, the government said on Tuesday as it prepares to put in place a robust system to deal with unruly passengers in the wake of the assault incident involving a Shiv Sena MP. Asserting that the revised norms to tackle any unruly behaviour will strike …
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May 2, 2017 -
TDP MP revolts against Chandrababu Naidu
TDP MP from Chittoor, N. Shivaprasad, has raised the banner of revolt against the party leadership and said he could contest as the candidate of many other parties in the next elections. Considered close to Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Shivaprasad targeted him for ignoring the interests …
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April 15, 2017 -
SC issues notice to Centre, EC over perks to MPs
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a plea seeking scrapping of pension and other perks being given to Members of Parliament. A bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar also issued notices to the Secretary General of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha …
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March 22, 2017