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New Delhi, Apr 2: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Saturday said his wife Sonal Shah's income grew from Rs 14 lakh annually to Rs 2.3 crore in the last five years, which is a 16-fold increase. The declaration was made by Shah while filing his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections from the Gandhinagar constituency. As per the declaration, the BJP President's total movable

Wayanad, Apr 2: Hitting out at the Congress President for deciding to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Kerala, Communist veteran and former Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Monday said his description of Rahul Gandhi as an 'Amul baby' was still relevant. In his Facebook post, the 95-year-old Marxist, the only living Communist leader who walked out of the National Council of the Communist

New Delhi, Apr 2: Congress on Monday demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "condemnable and divisive" statement that hurt the sentiments of people in Wayanad in Kerala. In a press statement, Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal said, "by alleging that Rahul Gandhi is contesting Wayanad seat on account of there being residents of a particular religion living there, is a

New Delhi, Apr 2: BSP supremo Mayawati Tuesday defended in the Supreme Court the construction of life-size statues of herself in Uttar Pradesh, saying they represent the "will of the people". The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, in an affidavit filed in the apex court, said the memorials and statues of herself and other leaders are "intended to promote values and ideals of various sants, gurus

Ghaziabad, Apr 1: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath described the Indian Army as "Modi ji ki sena" (Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Army) during an election campaign for the BJP here. Hitting out at Opposition parties over a host of governance issues Sunday, Adityanath said what was "impossible" for the Congress, Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party is possible under the BJP rule

Amravati, Apr 1: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "dividing" Hindus and Muslims on the religious line. Addressing a rally here in east Maharashtra in support of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) nominee, Owaisi alleged that the prime minister was trying to "save" the Sangh Parivar in the Samjhauta train blast case. A special court recently acquitted Swami

Wanaparthy, Apr 1: Seeking to woo women voters, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the Rs 72,000 money proposed to be given to the poor by Congress under the ' Nyay' scheme would be deposited in their bank accounts. This money would go to the bank account of the woman in a family. Every month, this money will directly go to the bank account of women. Crores of women will get power and

Paralakhemundi, Apr 1: BJP president Amit Shah Monday lashed out at the Congress, accusing the grand old party of trying to "defame" Hindus by giving them a terror tag. "Rahul (Gandhi) Baba's party attempted to link Hindu community with terrorism. It was a bid to defame Hindus across the world," Shah said, addressing a rally in Paralakhemundi under the Berhampur Lok Sabha constituency, which will

New Delhi, Apr 1: Facebook Inc said on Monday it was removing 687 pages and accounts linked to India's main opposition Congress party, just days before voting begins in a general election, because of "coordinated inauthentic behaviour" on the social media platform. The announcement marks a rare action from Facebook against a prominent political party in a country where it has more than 300 million

New Delhi, Apr 1: Had it not been for Khalid Khan Bachcha, Dawood Ibrahim would not have been Dawood; he would have perished in obscurity long ago, killed either by his rivals or the police, says a new book. "Dawood's Mentor: The Man Who Made India's Biggest Don" chronicles how Dawood meets Khalid and they eventually forge an unlikely friendship. Together they defeat and neutralise every mafia