Month: December 2025

  • BJP has been ‘splitting parties’ for its entire history: Maharashtra minister

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    BJP has been ‘splitting parties’ for its entire history: Maharashtra minister
    He said, the BJP poached one of his family members during the Assembly elections and has since poached a member of MP Rajabhau Waze’s family

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  • Young candidates infuse new energy into poll campaign

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    Young candidates infuse new energy into poll campaign
    Political parties are fielding young candidates, some as young as 21 or still in college, who are taking on seasoned politicians and bringing much-needed enthusiasm to the local body elections

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  • SIR extension proves that the revision is a hurried process, says Trinamool

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    SIR extension proves that the revision is a hurried process, says Trinamool
    The EC on Sunday announced the extension of the schedule of the ongoing SIR of electoral rolls in nine States and three Union Territories by one week

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  • Your Party is voted to be called … Your Party, Jeremy Corbyn announces – UK politics as it happened

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    Your Party is voted to be called … Your Party, Jeremy Corbyn announces – UK politics as it happened
    Former Labour leader announces official name at conference in Liverpool after vote by members Kemi Badenoch has reiterated her calls for the chancellor to resign on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, after accusing Rachel Reeves of breaking promises not to raise taxes.In this year’s budget, Reeves froze tax thresholds for three years longer than previously planned, meaning that as wages rise more people will have to start paying income tax.The chancellor called an emergency press conference telling everyone about how terrible the state of the finances were and now we have seen that the OBR had told her the complete opposite. She was raising taxes to pay for welfare.The only thing that was unfunded was the welfare payments which she has made and she’s doing it on the backs of a lot of people out there who are working very hard and getting poorer. And because of that, I

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  • Death toll passes 900 in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods

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    Death toll passes 900 in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka floods
    Officials in Indonesia say more than 442 people have died, while Sri Lanka suffers worst natural disaster since 2004 tsunami Authorities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand are racing to clear debris and find hundreds of missing people after more than 900 died in devastating floods and landslides across the south of Asia.In the latest example of the impact of the climate crisis on storm patterns and extreme weather, heavy monsoon rains, exacerbated by a tropical storm, have overwhelmed parts of south-east Asia in recent days, leaving thousands of people stranded without shelter or critical supplies. Continue reading…

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  • Your Party members vote to make name permanent at tense first conference

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    Your Party members vote to make name permanent at tense first conference
    Liverpool gathering lays bare bitter divisions within new party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah SultanaThe new leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called Your Party after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions.Just over 37% of members voted for the name Your Party, provisionally adopted when it was launched earlier this year, to become permanent. The votes for others on the shortlist were 25.23% to be called For The Many, 25.23% for Popular Alliance and 14.19% for Our Party. Continue reading…

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