Crushed between the State and the Indian Railways, nearly one-third of the people living in Haldwani along the tracks face an eviction threat — their homes are in danger of being razed, and the future of their schools, banks, and hospitals is in peril Atiq Shah, 65, stands before the tree that Chirag Ali Shah … Read more
Mahendra Singh Sisodia. File | Photo Credit: Facebook/@iamsisodia1 A Madhya Pradesh minister has stirred a controversy by reportedly asking Congress members in the state to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or face the threat of demolition by the Chief Minister’s bulldozer. A video of Panchayat Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia making the remarks at … Read more
A war of words erupted between BJP and AAP over the North Delhi Municipal Corporation bulldozing ‘encroachments’ in Jahangirpuri. AAP alleged that an ‘order had been issued’ to harass a community in the name of encroachments, while BJP alleged AAP was giving religious colour to the drive. BJP had ‘engineered clashes’ in various parts of … Read more
Yogi Adityanath was an unexpected pick by the BJP for the chief minister’s post after the party scored a landslide win in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. A poster boy for Hindutva, saffron-robed Adityanath was considered a rabble-rouser and often accused of making provocative remarks against Muslims. This time round, his appointment as the … Read more