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Monsoon session of Parliament from next week
ad_1] The monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 19 and continue till August 13 with a total of 19 days of business. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday reviewed the preparation ahead of the start of the monsoon session. The last three sessions were...
Rajinikanth confirms ‘no politics’ decision, dissolves party
Months after opting out of politics citing health worries, superstar Rajinikanth today stressed that he did not plan to change his mind and dissolved his outfit Rajini Makkal Mandram, effectively closing that chapter. “I have no plans of entering politics in future,” said Rajinikanth, 70, after meeting with...
Assam ‘encounter spree’: 20 shootings in 40 days
A Delhi-based advocate’s complaint has landed the Assam Police on the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) radar over what he said was an “encounter spree” that began after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s government took charge two months ago. Since June 1, more than 20 instances of encounters either...
Staff evacuated from India’s Kandahar consulate
Around 50 diplomats, and other staff members at the Kandahar consulate in Afghanistan have been evacuated by India in view of the Taliban fighters rapidly seizing control of a number of key areas in the region triggering security concerns, say sources. On Tuesday, the Indian embassy in Kabul said...
NIA probes terror funding across J&K
The National Investigation Agency is conducting multiple raids across Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a terror funding case. Officials of the premier investigation agency said that the search operations are taking place in connection with a case regarding the online radicalisation in the Indian subcontinent that was filed...
Modi, Shah credit Yogi’s policies For UP local poll win
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday credited Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s policies for the BJP’s win in Uttar Pradesh’s local elections. “In UP’s ‘block pramukh‘ elections, the BJP has emerged victorious. The big win is due to Yogi Adityanath government’s policies. All workers of the party deserve to be...
BJP claims ‘historic victory’ in violence-marred UP local polls
Sticks, stones, guns and bombs tarred local polls in Uttar Pradesh, where political developments have assumed heightened significance ahead of the all-important state elections early next year, as the ruling BJP claimed a “historic victory” on Saturday. Counting of votes for the 476 posts of block panchayat chiefs...
Assam to bring law against cheating for marriage
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said the state government will soon bring a law to check the menace of men marrying women by concealing their religious identity and other information and added that it will be “equal for Hindus and Muslims”. Stating that even a Hindu...
Amit Shah says ministry to empower cooperatives
The government is determined to make cooperatives and all cooperative institutions more empowered, Union minister Amit Shah, who met some leading figures of the country’s cooperative sector on Saturday, said. The meeting came three days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reallocated the portfolios of his ministers in which Shah...
Prashant Kishor, Mamata 3-hour meeting ahead of TMC overhaul
Political strategist Prashant Kishore met with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Friday, amid the workings of a big organisational haul in the Trinamool Congress. The meeting, which lasted for over three hours, ‘is very significant’, said a party insider. After the TMC’s victory in the...
Ministry says economy showing signs of revival from second wave
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Friday said the economy has started showing signs of revival from the impact of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on the back of targeted fiscal relief, monetary policy and a rapid vaccination drive. The broad-based economic relief package, extended to mitigate...
Second wave not yet over
The second wave of Covid, which caused an unprecedented number of infections in March-April, is not yet over, the government warned today, urging people to keep following precautions like avoiding crowds and wearing masks. “The war is not over yet,” said VK Paul, who heads the government’s Covid task...
SC rejects plea for moratorium on bank NPAs
‘fit case’. The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the plea seeking the moratorium on the declaration of accounts as NPA till June 23, it announced. The court said that it is a matter of policy and that it does not see it as a ‘fit case’ for intervention. In...
WhatsApp tells court new privacy policy on hold
WhatsApp has informed the Delhi High Court that they have voluntarily put updated privacy policy on hold. Senior Advocate Harish Salve made the submission on behalf of WhatsApp before a Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh. “Government has asked to shut down the policy. We have said we will not enforce...
Gorkha faction presses for permanent solution in hill areas
The Gorkha Janmukthi Morcha of Bimal Gurung faction met Trinamool Congress’ all India general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday in Kolkata. Roshan Giri met Abhishek along with another leader Dr RB Bhujel. Roshan said that they are in Kolkata to meet leaders and ministers of different departments...
Kerala reports first Zika virus infection
Kerala, which has been reporting a surge in coronavirus cases, has officially confirmed its first case of Zika virus – a mosquito-borne viral infection. Samples of 13 persons, suspected to be positive for Zika virus, have been sent to the National Institute of Virology in Pune. The symptoms of...
Jagan Mohan’s sister floats new party
. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister YS Sharmila Reddy will launch her political outfit, YSR Telangana Party (YSRTP), in the neighbouring state on Thursday after being granted approval by the Election Commission. The launch of Sharmila’s new venture coincides...
Exits outweigh entries in Modi’s Cabinet overhaul
The jumbo recast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet appears to have been based as much on damage control as a look to the future in states where the BJP hopes to expand. The exits have made a bigger impact than the entries and the one that has had...
