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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...
