Hyderabad: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday hit out at BJP governments for bringing ordinances against religious conversion through fraudulent means, including those for the sake of marriage, claiming these violated the fundamental rights under the Constitution. He also described the Centre’s agri-marketing acts as ‘draconian’ and dared the Narendra Modi government to come out … Read more
NEW DELHI: On the foundation day of the Congress on Monday, its chief Sonia Gandhi urged the party leaders and workers to unite in fighting dictatorship and protecting the country’s democracy, Constitution and the countrymen. Addressing party workers in a video message on the 136th foundation day of the party, Gandhi said the country is … Read more
Seventy years ago, India won independence from Britain. Millions of Indians took part in that epic struggle. They did so not just to drive the colonial power out but also to achieve freedom for themselves — from poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity, as the first Prime Minister said in his first … Read more
Vikas Dubey was a goon, killer, in 2001, of a minister inside a police station when BJP ruled the state, criminal overlord of a small chunk of Kanpur district, politician-cum-muscleman, killer of eight policemen recently, fugitive and victim of an Uttar Pradesh police ‘encounter’. More pertinently, in the light of public approbation of his killing … Read more