The Feel Good Factor!
A week before the country goes for elections, public sector oil companies reduced petrol prices by 75p/litre.
The Unity
Former rivals Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, forced to form a secular `grand` alliance along with Congress to take on a resurgent BJP, registered their first major victory by bagging six seats in the Assembly bypolls in Bihar on Monday.
Yogi and Bhogi
In 2000, Rampal Dass, a junior engineer in the Haryana irrigation department was sacked. He now heads a dera or cult worthRs. 100 crores and goes by the name of Sarguru Rampal Ji Maharaj.
The 63-year-old owns a fleet of luxury cars, including BMWs and Mercedes and lives in an ashram in Barwala, Haryana, spread over a sprawling 12 acres. Charged with sedition or waging war against the nation, the controversial guru was finally arrested by the police on Wednesday night.
Kejriwal will not 'resign' again
"There is one thing I have learnt about politics. Whatever happens, one should not resign from their post and I am definitely not going to resign again," said AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to his audience at Durga Chowk in Kirari on Sunday evening.
Haath ka Safaya!
If Lok Sabha elections were to be held today, Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party will emerge as the front-runner, according to ABP News-Nielsen National Poll.The Opinion Poll has found that NDA is set to win 233 seats in the 543-seat parliament while the incumbent UPA-II government is projected to win mere 119 seats.
The Real Master
Pakistan protesters reached the Islamabad parliament building in their bid to force Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign, but did not go inside.
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After BJP`s Amira Kadal candidate Hina Bhat declared that revoking Article 370 would compel her to take up arms, politicians across party lines in the state said the law was sacrosanct. Chief minister Omar Abdullah termed it Kashmir`s only link with the rest of the country while PDP patron Mufti Sayeed said even Parliament did not have the mandate to review or abrogate Article 370.
New Year Gift!
The price of non-subsidized cooking gas (LPG), which customers buy after consuming their quota of subsidized cylinders, was hiked by a steep Rs 220 per cylinder on Wednesday on firming international rates.
Meaning of BJP
Former Janata Dal (United) spokesperson Sabir Ali, who was expelled on Monday by the party for praising BJP`s prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi, has joined the BJP at the party headquarters. He said he joined the party to fight against corruption, inflation and appeasement.