The Supreme Court will pronounce its order Wednesday morning on the pleas of 15 rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs seeking direction for Karnataka Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar to accept their resignations from the Assembly. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi concluded the hearings of the rebel MLAs, the Speaker and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy. Summing up the arguments, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the 15 MLAs, asked the bench to continue with its interim order directing the Speaker to maintain status quo on the issue of resignations and disqualification of the MLAs. The counsel for the rebel MLAs…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today tore into ministers who had skipped parliament duty and asked for a list of absentees to be given to him every evening. At a weekly meeting of the BJP parliamentary party, PM Modi asked Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi to give the names of ministers who had been absent despite being rostered for parliament duty. The Prime Minister advised his party’s parliamentarians to “work beyond the sphere of politics,” according to BJP leaders present at the meeting. Stressing on the water crisis, PM Modi reportedly asked lawmakers to sit with officials in their constituencies and…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 15 spoke to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and took stock of the flood situation in the state, where the deluge has claimed 11 lives this year while millions are affected, officials said. During the telephonic conversation, the Chief Minister briefed the Prime Minister about the current situation and informed him that 31 of the state’s 33 districts were hit by the current spell of floods. Modi assured Sonowal of all assistance from the central government in dealing with the situation, an official said. On July 13, the chief minister had briefed Home Minister…
Former Indian captain and cricket legend Mahendra Singh Dhoni may be dropped from the Indian squad as he is not in the future plans of Team India, the Times of India reported. According to reliable sources quoted by TOI, Dhoni is not the same batsman that he used to be and MSK Prasad will speak to him about retirement so that he retires and youngsters get chances. “We’re surprised that he’s not done it so far. There are youngsters like Rishabh Pant waiting to grab their chance. As we saw in the World Cup, Dhoni isn’t the same batsman anymore.…
Budget smartphones are getting better by the day when you look at the features they offer, but there are very few entry-level phones that offer what the Redmi 7A brings to the table. Last year’s Redmi 6A, did come across as a mild disappointment considering how well the Redmi 5A (review) did for Xiaomi, but with its latest entrant, the company’s definitely tried to up the game for its rivals — Realme and Samsung. Xiaomi’s latest sub-Rs 6,000 phone boasts of an octa-core processor, a sturdy, splashproof build, a capable camera and a monstrous battery, making it a pretty obvious choice for…
Nearly 50 days after Rahul Gandhi stepped down as Congress president, taking moral responsibility for the humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, the grand old party is yet to finalise a new chief. Gandhi, now an MP from Wayanad in Kerala, became the Congress president in 2017. He offered to step down from his post at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting on May 25, taking moral responsibility for the party’s drubbing in the 17th Lok Sabha elections. In these 50 days that went by, not only has Gandhi made his resignation public but also removed the tag of…
Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Monday said if his minister Navjot Singh Sidhu did not want to do his job, there was nothing he could do about it. This came hours after the cricketer-turned-politician sent his resignation to the chief minister on Monday. “If Sidhu doesn’t want to do the job, there is nothing I can do about it… how could a soldier refuse a job assigned by the General,” said Amarinder Singh. “There has to be some discipline in the government if it is to function effectively,” added the CM. “The minister should have accepted his new portfolio instead of shunning…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit the United States in September for the upcoming U.N. General Assembly meeting and is likely to address Indian-Americans in Houston during his trip, community leaders said Friday. Chicago and Houston are the two American cities in contention for the Prime Minister’s venue to address the diaspora when he is likely to travel to the U.S. later this year to attend the United Nations’ Annual General Assembly in New York. No official announcement about the trip has been made yet. According to informed community sources, the Prime Minister is likely to travel to…
Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant dropped four ministers from his cabinet on Saturday and replaced them with three defectors from Congress and a BJP MLA.Former opposition leader Chandrakant Kavalekar, former minister Filipe Neri Rodrigues and Jennifer Monserrate were administered oath of office by governor Mridula Sinha at Raj Bhavan. All three rebels were part of the 10-member Congress splinter group. Calangute MLA and BJP leader Michael Lobo was also sworn-in as minister in the state cabinet.Kavalekar, who led the Congress rebels to join the saffron party, is likely to be made deputy chief minister. He is a four-time MLA from Quepem.Jennifer is the…
Earlier today, specifications and renders of the Xiaomi Mi A3 leaked telling us what to expect from this smartphone. And now, an anonymous tipster has sent us a few images of the Mi A3 and its retail box which confirm the phone’s design and key specs. The white-colored retail box confirms that Mi A3 will come in Blue and White shades. But one of the images show the phone in Black as well. Rest of the specs include a 6.08″ AMOLED display, UD fingerprint scanner, and a 4,030 mAh battery with 18W fast charging support. There’s also a 48MP camera at the…