Jaya Bachchan set for 5th Rajya Sabha term: A look at her Parliament career till now
The Rajya Sabha has seen many actors as its members but not many have been as active and combative as Jaya Bachchan.
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Message to farmers, strike at Congress, as Modi govt announces 3 more Bharat Ratnas
In a third announcement of Bharat Ratnas within a fortnight, the government on Fridaynamed three more recipients for the country’s highest civilian award — former prime ministers Chaudhary Charan Singh andP V Narasimha Rao, and celebrated agricultural economist M S Swaminathan.
White Paper in Parliament, why BJP is keeping guns trained on Cong: ‘Regional allies not permanent foes’
From attacking the INDIA bloc as “ghamandia (arrogant)” and calling it “INDI” alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has trained his guns exclusively on the Congress in his recent speeches in Parliament. And on Thursday, the BJP government released a “White Paper” that was yet another scathing criticism of the Congress-led UPA government’s handling of the economy during its tenure from 2004 to 2014.
Gyanvapi row: Parties silent, RSS, BJP likely to leave matter to courts
WHILE THE Opposition maintained silence on the matter of an Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) report saying a “huge temple” existed where the Gyanvapi Masjid next to Kashi Vishwanath Temple now stands, the RSS and BJP indicated they were in no hurry to get into the issue, and would wait for courts to take the lead on the matter.
How the Ram temple draws a new line, frames challenge for Opposition
JANUARY 22 was presaged, way back on November 9, 2019, when the Supreme Court cleared the way for the construction of the temple; and then on August 5, 2020, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed the bhoomi pujan at the site in Ayodhya.
In Ayodhya Ram Temple speech, PM Modi says wait over, links ‘Dev to Desh’, and ‘Ram to Rashtra’
THE CONSECRATION of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya is the harbinger of an era of a prosperous India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Ayodhya Monday, giving the people a new mantra linking the two – “Dev se desh; Ram se Rashtra (from God to country, and from Ram to nation)”.
From Ram Temple event, Mohan Bhagwat calls for shunning disputes, flags rise of ‘new Bharat’
Taking upon himself the task of talking about hosh (reason) in a moment of josh (excitement), RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagat on Monday said after the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya that it was the time to end disputes and take everyone along.
Ram Temple and popular belief: What early European travellers wrote about Ayodhya
Early accounts of European travellers cited by the Supreme Court in its 2019 Ayodhya title suit judgment and a just-released book on Ayodhya by former Rajya Sabha MP Balbir Punj of the BJP record popular beliefs in the temple town that a castle or temple devoted to Hindu deity Ram once stood there.