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Congress says Udhav Thackeray govt won’t face any problem
Days after saying that the Congress will contest the next Maharashtra Assembly polls alone and not as partners of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, the party’s state unit chief Nana Patole on Sunday assured that his party stands strong with Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray with all its might until...
Move to sell public sector oil companies to foreign investors
IPA Webdesk The government has initiated a move to sell state-owned oil companies to foreign investors. The Commerce and Industry Ministry has floated a draft cabinet note seeking inter-ministerial views on a proposal to allow up to 100 per cent foreign investment under automatic route in oil and...
Former IL&FS chief Ravi Parthasarathy arrested
Former chairman of the bankrupt Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) Ravi Parthasarathy has been arrested by the Economic Offences Wing-II, here, following a complaint given by 63 Moons Technologies. “The kingpin and the mastermind of the several crore IL&FS and ITNL (IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd) financial scam Ravi...
Centre to share 70% GST income from vaccine with states, says FM
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced tax relief on various Covid-19 medicines and equipment. However, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on Covid-19 vaccine to remain same at 5 per cent. Explaining the rationale behind this, Sitharaman said, “5 per cent GST on Covid vaccines will stay. The...
TMC-Congress alliance for 2024 Lok Sabha polls?
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday said people voted for ‘Didi’ (Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee) because they felt she is the one who can prevent Narendra Modi of being reelected as Prime Minister in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a press conference in Kolkata...
Traders body seeks probe against Amazon, Flipkart
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Saturday urged the government to revisit the foreign direct investment norms for e-commerce players and start investigation immediately against e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart “without any delay”. The Karnataka High Court on Friday dismissed the plea by e-commerce giants Amazon and...
Modi to meet J&K team in move for holding elections
IPA Webdesk Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to meet an all-party delegation of political parties from J&K on June 24 in New Delhi as part of the move towards restoration of electoral democracy in the union territory of Jammu & Kashmir. The meeting, which comes weeks before the...
Sarbananda in Delhi ahead of cabinet rejig
Former Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal headed for Delhi amid speculation that he might get a ministerial berth in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet expansion. Sonowal had served as a Minister of State for Sports and Youth Affairs from 2014 to 2016 during the first term of the Narendra...
Tharoor panel tells Twitter to ‘abide by Indian laws’
IPA Webdesk Twitter was grilled by MPs across parties and told bluntly that “Indian laws are supreme and the company has to abide by the laws of India in India,” sources said after a meeting of the parliamentary panel on IT led by Congress’s Shashi Tharoor. During a...
Third wave ‘inevitable’, says AIIMS chief
A third Covid wave in India is “inevitable”, and it may hit the country in the next six-eight weeks, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV. “As we have started unlocking, there is again a lack of Covid-appropriate behaviour. We don’t seem to have learnt from what happened...
Chirag Paswan’s counter-move against uncle
LJP leader Chirag Paswan, the son of former Union minister and LJP founder late Ram Vilas Paswan, was caught in a controversy on Friday after an alleged audio conversation of the former LJP chief with a worker was leaked on social media. The audio conversation between Chirag Paswan and...
Pawar-Kishor meet discussed ‘wider alliance’ for 2024
A day after election strategist Prashant Kishor met NCP chief Sharad Pawar, a spokesperson of the party on Saturday said there is a need to have a “wider alliance” of political parties against the ruling BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sbha polls. Kishor met Pawar at the latter’s...
UP police notice to Twitter MD for provoking ‘communal hatred’
IPA Webdesk The Uttar Pradesh Police has sent a legal notice to Twitter India’s Managing Editor for “provoking communal unrest” on the assault on a Muslim man in Ghaziabad earlier this month. Manish Maheshwari, Managing Director of Twitter in India, has been asked to come to the Police Station...
Digvijaya Singh says his critics on Article 370 remark ‘Illiterate’
In a recent conversation with a Pakistan-based journalist on the Clubhouse app, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh hinted at ‘relooking’ the decision of revoking Article 370. During the conversation, Digvijaya said, “Democracy was not there in Kashmir when they revoked Article 370, ‘insaniyat’ was not there as they had put...
Second bribery case against Kerala BJP chief
Thiruvananthapuram: An FIR (first information report) has been filed against the BJP’s Kerala chief – the second in less that 10 days – on the allegation that he had given money to a tribal leader to return to the BJP-led alliance as a candidate for the assembly election...
Lakshadweep BJP leaders quit over sedition case against Aisha Sultana
As many as 15 leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Lakshadweep have reportedly resigned from the party’s primary membership over a sedition case being filed against filmmaker Aisha Sulthana by Abdul Khader, who heads the saffron camp’s island unit. Khader had filed the complaint with the Kavaratti...
Another BJP turncoat met TMC leaders, but calls it courtesy call
A day after Mukul Roy joined Trinamool Congress leaving BJP, former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who had moved to the saffron party only months before the assembly elections, met TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Saturday fuelling speculations of his return to the old party. Banerjee, who unsuccessfully fought...
Student-activists released after stern court warning
IPA Webdesk Student-activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha walked out of Delhi’s Tihar jail today, hours after a court ordered their immediate release. They were arrested for alleged conspiracy in the north-east Delhi riots case. “It shows the desperation of the government… We are women...
