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Panda's tweet came after senior journalist Ramesh Rath of Odisha Television Limited (OTV) was picked up by the police here on Thursday in connection with a viral fake sex video of a female BJD MP.

The list also features most of the senior leaders in the state, including Digvijaya Singh, whose absence has been questioned persistently by the BJP.

Gandhi said, "When Congress party fights, we do that to protect and strengthen the foundation. This is the difference between us and the central government. They talk of the building, but they thrust schemes from the top without talking to the panchayat a...

CM Yogi Adityanath is expected to attend the campaign in Bihar for 6 days as bypolls are due in Uttar Pradesh along with elections to 10 Rajya Sabha seats.

>The LJP has already announced a list of 42 candidates for the first phase of Bihar assembly election slated to be held on October 28.

Reacting to the development, senior TMC leader and former MP Mamatabala Thakur, who too belongs to the Matua community, said the BJP is shedding "crocodile tears" before the state assembly polls next year.

The Congress and many other opposition parties have also been protesting against the farm legislations passed by Parliament recently, claiming that these will harm the interests of farmers.

Holding that the Sikhs and Bengalis have lived in harmony in West Bengal for ages, he said that "the BJP will not be able to draw them into communal politics".

The delegation alleged the state CID, which is investigating the case, is misdirecting the probe to falsely implicate political opponents in the BJP, Dhankhar said in a Twitter post.

Deputy CM Sushil Modi, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and former Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das are also among the list of star campaigners for the first phase of polls.

The state home department said the Sikh person whose turban was pulled off during a confrontation with the police was arrested in accordance with the law for carrying illegal firearms during BJP’s march to the secretariat.

Political parties will have to get prior permission from the district magistrate or police to campaign and hold public gatherings, while following the SOPs. The enclosed places where such events will be held can be filled up to 50% of capacity with a maxi...

Nadda's Bihar tour will start at 10.30 am tomorrow with a visit to the renowned Hanuman Mandir where he will offer prayers. At 11.15 am, the BJP President will visit JP Niwas at Kadamkuan in Patna to garland the statue of Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan.

Gambhir cited the installation of a giant first-of-its-kind 20-feet smog tower to get the height of Asia's biggest landfill site at Ghazipur down by 40 feet as one of his achievements in his first year as lawmaker.

In accordance with the seat-sharing formula for the 243-member assembly, the JD(U) has got 122 seats but is contesting only 115, leaving the remaining seven for the Hindustani Awam Morcha of former chief minister Jitan RamManjhi, who is back in the NDA.

The Economic Offence Wing of MP police early this year had booked Scindia and members of two charitable trusts run by his family in connection with an old complaint of land grab in Gwalior.