As per Law Minister Pratap Jena of the BJD-led Odisha Government, the State has initiated a process to sell 35,272 acres of land that belongs to Shri Jagannath Mandir in Odisha and six other States.
The Congress government in Puducherry lost the trust vote. Two more MLAs from the Congress-DMK coalition led by Chief Minister V. Narayan Swamy resigned reducing the government to a minority.
Around 20 BJP and TDP workers in Andhra Pradesh are involved in attacks on Hindu temples, 15 have been arrested and others are on the run.
Advocate Puneet Kaur Dhanda has filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking to purge the voter list of bogus voters. Bengal is due for Assembly elections early next year.
Before the Assembly elections next year, political clashes have started between BJP and Trinamool Congress. Now, graffiti has appeared in Nadia District threatening voters with dire consequences if they do not vote for the TMC.
A Turkish court has sentenced a Muslim cleric Adnan Oktar to 1075 years in prison under the charges of sexual abuse, child sex abuse, cheating, political and military espionage, etc. Two of his aides – Tarkan and Oktar, were also convicted and sentenced to 211 years and 186 years in prison respectively.
BJP MLA Sadhvi Pragnya Singh took Congress leader DIgvijay Singh to task for his offensive remark that ‘Nathuram Godse was the nation’s first terrorist’.
Some members of the Congress have opined that had I become the PM in 2004, the party might have averted the 2014 Lok Sabha drubbing.
BJP MLA from Badlapur constituency here kicked chairs for not being invited to the ground-laying ceremony of a martyr’s memorial.
In UP there is a practice of writing the owner’s caste on the vehicle number plate.