Amit Shah has not undergone any fresh COVID-19 test, Government official clarifies

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NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has not undergone any fresh COVID-19 test, an official said on Sunday, a clarification which came after BJP’s Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari tweeted on the test. Shah is recuperating at a hospital in Gurgaon after testing positive for coronavirus last week. A Home Ministry official said when a … Read more

IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad self isolates; met Amit Shah on Saturday

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NEW DELHI: IT and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has gone into self isolation, as he had met Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday evening, a source said. Prasad does not have any symptoms and the self-isolation is purely based on existing protocol, the source added. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that … Read more

Will go for Ramlala’s darshan after Prime Minister Modi, others leave: Uma Bharti

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BHOPAL: Former Union minister Uma Bharti on Monday said she will go for darshan of Lord Ram in Ayodhya after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others leave the venue of the ground-breaking ceremony for Ram temple construction there, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The 61-year-old senior BJP leader’s comments came a day after … Read more

India’s home affairs minister tests positive for coronavirus

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Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah announced on Twitter that he was tested after developing symptoms of Covid-19, and has been admitted to a Delhi hospital. “I got the test done and was found positive,” the 55-year-old minister said, adding that he asked those who have been in contact with him in the past few … Read more

Manish Sisodia writes to Amit Shah, seeks directions to LG to allow hotels, weekly markets in Delhi

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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, seeking directions to LG Anil Baijal to allow hotels and weekly markets in the city. Sisodia’s letter comes a day after Baijal rejected the Arvind Kejriwal government’s decision to allow hotels and weekly markets to reopen in the national capital, … Read more

Opposition seems to have lost its sting during pandemic, but the ruling party is consolidating its base

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Pradyut Bordoloi and Gaurav Gogoi, members of Parliament from Assam, failed to catch the last flight from Delhi to Guwahati on March 24. Until the previous day, both the Congress MPs were present in the Lok Sabha for the budget session. And neither of them had an inkling that a nationwide lockdown was in the … Read more

No ‘Operation Lotus’ in Maharashtra, says Devendra Fadnavis after meeting Amit Shah

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MUMBAI: Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said no “Operation Lotus” was happening in Maharashtra as the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government will collapse on its own due to its “internal contradictions”. Fadnavis made this statement while speaking to reporters in New Delhi, after a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The former … Read more

Amit Shah selects 5 Gujarat villages under ‘Saansad Adarsh Gram’ scheme

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Ahmedabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday announced selection of five villages in his Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency as part of the ‘Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’. A statement issued by Gandhinagar Lok Sabha office of Shah informed that Mankol and Modasar in Sanand taluka of Ahmedabad district, Billeshwarpura and Ramnagar in Kalol taluka of … Read more

BJP realises limitations of virtual world

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New Delhi: BJP was quick to turn to online communications both within the party and for public outreach when Covid-19 hit the country. But now, about four months on, the party feels the need to improve public connect in election-bound states such as Bihar and MP. Hence it is planning to balance virtual and real … Read more