Category: NATIONAL NEWS

New Delhi, Jun 13 (DIN NEWS) BJP president Amit Shah today hailed his party’s drive to enrol new members and train them, and said opposition parties are also now emulating this exercise. Addressing party functionaries after releasing training booklets to educate workers, Shah said the BJP’s ideology is aimed at changing the society and the country’s politics, sources said. The training booklets also include measures to effectively deal with media. The party had launched a membership drive after it stormed to power at the Centre in 2014 and claimed to…

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New Delhi, Jun 12 (DIN NEWS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues, who spent the night at the lieutenant governor’s office, today dug in their heels with Health Minister Satyendar Jain beginning an indefinite hunger strike to press for their demands. The AAP government’s demands include a direction to IAS officers to end their “strike”, action against those who have struck work for “four months”. It has also asked the L-G to approve the proposal for doorstep delivery of rations.Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, Development Minister Gopal Rai…

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Srinagar, Jun 12 (DIN NEWS) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said militants “will only have themselves to blame” if security forces hit them harder than before after the Centre’s peace initiative ends. On May 16, the Union government directed security forces not to launch counter-terror operations during Ramzan but said they reserve the right to retaliate if attacked.  “With the militant organisations doing their best to make sure the ceasefire is a failure they will only have themselves to blame if the security forces come back at them…

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Raipur, Jun 11 (DIN NEWS) BJP chief Amit Shah today asserted that the opposition has a key role in a democracy and said his party’s slogan of “Congress-free India” means freeing the country of that party’s “culture”. He also said his some of the remarks on Congress president Rahul Gandhi should not be taken as a personal attack as he had only replied to certain questions posed by the opposition party leader. “‘Congressmukt Bharat’ means getting rid of the ‘Congress culture’. Democracy is not possible without the opposition. It is…

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New Delhi, Jun 11 (DIN NEWS) The country has become slave to a handful of BJP-RSS leaders but the entire opposition will unite in six months to a year to make them realise that India will be run by its people and not just three persons, Congress party president Rahul Gandhi said today Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat will soon see the strength of India, Gandhi said, while addressing an Other Backward Class (OBC) convention, aimed…

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Mumbai, Jun 10 (DIN NEWS) One thousand auto-rickshaws will welcome Congress president Rahul Gandhi on his day-long visit to the city on Tuesday, party leader Sanjay Nirupam said today. “Almost a thousand auto-rickshaw drivers have decided to welcome Rahul ji to the city in their vehicles. This is the love the common man feels for our party president,” Nirupam said in a statement here. “Rahul ji ensures that the common man’s opinions, grievances and inputs not only reach him but also are responded to. And this is the way the…

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Ambikapur, Jun 10 (DIN NEWS) BJP chief Amit Shah today attacked Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his party’s “dismal” track record in 55 years of its rule, even as he set a target of winning 65 seats in the upcoming Chhattisgarh Assembly polls. Sounding the bugle for the year-end elections in Chhattisgarh, Shah questioned Gandhi for seeking an account of the work done by the BJP-led government at the Centre in the last four years. The Raman Singh government would retain power in Chhattisgarh and the BJP would win 65…

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New Delhi, June 9 (DIN NEWS) Twenty-six people were killed in dust storms and lightning that struck parts of Uttar Pradesh yesterday, while two persons died today in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra. A downpour battered Mumbai, causing disruptions in rail and air traffic, and a dust storm hit the national capital and its surrounding areas that had been reeling under the scorching heat for a few days. There were reports of rains in Punjab, Haryana and some parts of Uttar Pradesh, which had been sweating it out in sweltering conditions.…

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Hyderabad, Jun 9 (DIN NEWS) People of the country share the common value system and culturally they are one, though they speak in different languages, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here today. “That cultural oneness is what that has kept us together,” she said. She referred to descriptions and episodes in ‘Bhagavata’ and worship of Lord Krishna which were commonly shared by people in the North East, in the South and in other parts of the country. Sitharaman was Chief Guest at a talk on ‘Re-emergence of India that is…

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