Baniya

Some theories also state that the word 'bunny' came from 'baniya' (the merchant community of India) and 'chow' is a colloquial term for food in South Africa.

BJP leader P Muralidhar Rao's comment about brahminsand baniyas in the party's "pockets" have triggered a huge row in Madhya Pradesh, with the Congress demanding an apology and slamming the ruling party for "arrogance".

BJP leader P Muralidhar Rao on Monday triggered a huge row with his statement that people belonging to Brahmin and Baniya communities are in his "pockets".

At least six girls were paraded naked in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district by locals as part of a ritual which villagers believe will please the rain gods and bring relief from the drought-like situation, officials said today.

The government on Monday announced 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for economically weaker sections in the general category and said it would move a constitutional amendment bill to bring it into effect. The mega move, just months before the national election, was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minist...

Political battles are temporary. Institutions such as the Mahatma and the Indian Army - even if it is strange to mention them together - are permanent. They define our nation, and always will.

Taking a dig at Shivraj Singh Chouhan for going on a hunger strike, the Shiv Sena today said the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister used Gandhian means to quell the farmers' movement even as his party president described Mahatma Gandhi as a "chatur baniya".

There has been no end to reactions to BJP president's Amit Shah's "chatur baniya" description of Mahatma Gandhi at what the party had called a meeting of "eminent persons" in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur. The Mahatma's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Saturday waded into the ongoing controversy around the remark.

Describing the Congress as a party that was never set up on the basis of ideology, BJP president Amit Shah said the party was launched as a special purpose vehicle to secure Independence. This is the reason, he went on, that Mahatma Gandhi advocated the party's dissolution right after Independence. "He was a Chatur Baniya," Mr Shah said, a descript...

Describing himself a "baniya" who understands business, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today sought to woo the traders community ahead of the Assembly polls, by promising to restructure the tax regime in Delhi and to put an end to "extortion and raid racket" by the VAT department.

Delhi's Chandni Chowk constituency, dominated by Muslims and Baniyas, is witnessing a triangular contest. Union Minister Kapil Sibal is seeking to score a hat-trick of victories, but is facing a stiff challenge in his endeavour from Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan and journalist-turned-politician Ashutosh, who has been put up by the AAP.

With 22.63 lakh voters, Ghaziabad is the second largest Lok Sabha constituency after Malkajgiri in Andhra Pradesh. The constituency has a fair sprinkling of Rajputs, Brahmins, Baniyas and Jats, and, with the exception of 2004, has voted for the BJP since 1991.

Some theories also state that the word 'bunny' came from 'baniya' (the merchant community of India) and 'chow' is a colloquial term for food in South Africa.

BJP leader P Muralidhar Rao's comment about brahminsand baniyas in the party's "pockets" have triggered a huge row in Madhya Pradesh, with the Congress demanding an apology and slamming the ruling party for "arrogance".

BJP leader P Muralidhar Rao on Monday triggered a huge row with his statement that people belonging to Brahmin and Baniya communities are in his "pockets".

At least six girls were paraded naked in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district by locals as part of a ritual which villagers believe will please the rain gods and bring relief from the drought-like situation, officials said today.

The government on Monday announced 10 per cent reservation in government jobs and higher education for economically weaker sections in the general category and said it would move a constitutional amendment bill to bring it into effect. The mega move, just months before the national election, was approved in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minist...

Political battles are temporary. Institutions such as the Mahatma and the Indian Army - even if it is strange to mention them together - are permanent. They define our nation, and always will.

Taking a dig at Shivraj Singh Chouhan for going on a hunger strike, the Shiv Sena today said the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister used Gandhian means to quell the farmers' movement even as his party president described Mahatma Gandhi as a "chatur baniya".

There has been no end to reactions to BJP president's Amit Shah's "chatur baniya" description of Mahatma Gandhi at what the party had called a meeting of "eminent persons" in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur. The Mahatma's grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Saturday waded into the ongoing controversy around the remark.

Describing the Congress as a party that was never set up on the basis of ideology, BJP president Amit Shah said the party was launched as a special purpose vehicle to secure Independence. This is the reason, he went on, that Mahatma Gandhi advocated the party's dissolution right after Independence. "He was a Chatur Baniya," Mr Shah said, a descript...

Describing himself a "baniya" who understands business, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today sought to woo the traders community ahead of the Assembly polls, by promising to restructure the tax regime in Delhi and to put an end to "extortion and raid racket" by the VAT department.

Delhi's Chandni Chowk constituency, dominated by Muslims and Baniyas, is witnessing a triangular contest. Union Minister Kapil Sibal is seeking to score a hat-trick of victories, but is facing a stiff challenge in his endeavour from Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan and journalist-turned-politician Ashutosh, who has been put up by the AAP.

With 22.63 lakh voters, Ghaziabad is the second largest Lok Sabha constituency after Malkajgiri in Andhra Pradesh. The constituency has a fair sprinkling of Rajputs, Brahmins, Baniyas and Jats, and, with the exception of 2004, has voted for the BJP since 1991.