Tag: BJP
Joint Pakistan-India drills leave Sidhu critics red-faced
NEW DELHI: Hindutva groups have slammed former Indian cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa recently, but a joint military...
Muslim survivors of Indian massacre shaken by citizenship test
NELLIE, India: Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says he...
Congress taunts Modi over ‘friend’ Nawaz’s arrest
NEW DELHI: Indian political party Congress has taunted its rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "friendship" with the deposed prime minister...
BJP hits out at Tharoor’s ‘Hindu Pakistan’ remark
MUMBAI: A day after Indian political party Congress, leader Shashi Tharoor remarked that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will turn India into "Hindu Pakistan" if it...
India’s constant issues with Pakistan reflect BJP’s hostile policy: report
BEIJING: When it comes to diplomacy, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ideology is nationalist in nature as reflected through New Delhi’s constant disputes with Pakistan, says a...
Modi’s party pulls out of governing alliance in Indian Kashmir
India's ruling party withdrew on Tuesday from an alliance government in the India-held Kashmir region in what analysts described as an attempt to appear...
India shrine issues fatwa against Jinnah following AMU clashes
Amid clashes over Muhammad Ali Jinnah's portrait at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in India, the popular Dargah-e-Aala Hazrat (shrine of Ahmed Raza Khan...
BJP’s UP minister calls Quaid a ‘mahapurush’
Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Swami Prasad Maurya, on Tuesday, slammed the party’s Aligarh MP, Satish Gautam, for questioning the Aligarh...
Threatened, ostracised if we target Modi and BJP, say Indian journalists
NEW DELHI: India has constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and by some measures the biggest and most diverse media industry in the world....
India’s Modi may need an alliance to rule southern state, poll...
NEW DELHI: Gains by India’s ruling party in a southern state election next month will fall short of a majority, an opinion poll showed,...
Indian Supreme Court rejects calls for probe into death of Judge...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court dismissed on Thursday petitions calling for an investigation into the death of a lower court judge in 2014 when...
Eight go on trial for rape, murder of young Kashmiri girl
SRINAGAR: Eight men accused of involvement in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state appeared in...
Hindu-Muslim riots erupt in India, three dead and dozens injured
KOLKATA: Clashes in India between supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party and those of an opposition party snowballed into Hindu-Muslim rioting, with three...
Must ‘recognise’ and ‘tackle’ problems in Kashmir, says ex-PM Manmohan Singh
NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi's government has been accused of unprecedented mismanagement in Jammu and Kashmir by the former prime minister Manmohan Singh, according to NDTV. ...
“Car that killed nine children in India belonged to BJP leader”
The tragic road accident on the Muzaffarpur-Sitamarhi highway on February 24, which killed nine children has now started to haunt BJP in the state,...
Muslims have no place in India, they should go to Pakistan...
NEW DELHI: Parliament member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vinay Katiyar on Wednesday issued a statement which read: “Muslims should not even be living in this country, they should...
Anti-Pakistan campaign rooted in New Delhi: report
LONDON/WASHINGTON: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's close aide and Bhartiya Janata Party's New Delhi spokesperson has eerie links to the expensive advertisements that sprung...
