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BJP and Congress pledge Jaipur heritage protection in civic polls; BJP offers broad Rajasthan-wide policy, Congress details 50 heritage corridors, targets, authority.

Jaipur: The BJP state govt faces a fresh governance test amid polling for 309 urban local bodies, with PHED Contractual Agency Association announcing an indefinite strike over mounting unpaid dues.

Jaipur: City’s municipal election has become a test of how far delimitation can alter community arithmetic, with BJP and Congress moving beyond familiar candidate patterns to respond to changed Hindu-Muslim voter balances in the ongoing civic polls.

Jaipur: Former cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas Tuesday targeted BJP govt over law and order, healthcare and civic issues, accusing it of spending Rs 100 crore on IIFA while failing to allocate funds for the development of Govind Dev Ji temple. Addr

SANGRUR: A political row has erupted over the suicide of a 46-year-old Sangrur farmer — an addict’s father — who expressed his pain before finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema at a public rally on Sunday and asked why Punjab govt was unable to rein in th

Guwahati: Former IAS officer Devasish Sharma joined BJP on Tuesday, fuelling speculation over Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll.

NEW DELHI: Confrontation hit Parliament Street police station Tuesday after a group of Congress SC/ST MPs petitioned police for an FIR for the “untouchability-purification” committed against party president Mallikarjun Kharge, but cops refused to file the

Jaipur: The first phase of Rajasthan’s urban local body elections would begin Wednesday, covering 162 of the state’s 309 ULBs and marking a major rollout of simultaneous civic polling.

NEW DELHI: A group of expelled Bihar Congress functionaries Tuesday protested in front of the party office here, and demanded a meeting with Rahul Gandhi so that they could “apprise” him of the realities of the state unit.

Chandigarh: A Congress attempt to gherao Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini’s residence on Tuesday ran into a heavy police blockade, with security personnel using water cannons to stop protesters from advancing towards the high-security zone.

Shimla: Himachal Pradesh BJP president Dr Rajeev Bindal on Tuesday accused the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led Congress govt of weakening education, healthcare and financial sectors under the guise of “system change”.

Chandigarh: Congress workers from across Punjab staged a protest against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govt on Tuesday. Led by Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, the party workers gathered outside the Punjab Congress Bhawan here before marching