The Union Home Minister further said the elections in the state would be held in the next six months after the ongoing Amarnath Yatra concludes, adding that the Centre would extend all its support whenever the Election Commission comes out with a schedule for polls. The Rajya Sabha will be a bigger test for the NDA as it is well short of the majority in the 245-member House but is banking on the support of friendly parties to get the two bills passed. The BJP has issued a three-line whip to all its Rajya Sabha members to remain present in…
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The Meteorological Department warned of “extremely heavy” rainfall in adjoining areas of Thane and Palghar on 2,4 and 5 July. A few places in Mumbai could get heavy to very heavy rainfall Monday and Tuesday, it added. Mumbai witnessed 93 mm of rainfall and Palghar area received 361 mm in the last 24 hours. General Manager of Western and Central Railways A K Gupta with senior officers has been constantly and closely supervising the situation from Mumbai Central Control Room to “keep the wheels of local trains rolling,” tweets Western Railways. BEST buses have been diverted due to waterlogging at…
est Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell came up with an epic response to Mohammed Shami doing his salute celebration during the India-West Indies match on Thursday. Cottrell had dismissed Mohammad Shami in during India’s innings and celebrated in his trademark style by saluting. Shami was later seen imitating Cottrell’s salute when the West Indies pacer got out to Yuzvendra Chahal in the 30th over of the second innings. It was all in good fun though, and even Cottrell smiled at Shami’s imitation act. Cottrell tweeted about the incident later and even came up with a funny response in Hindi.
Reiterating the saffron party’s stance on the contentious Article 370, BJPnational general secretary Ram Madhav on Saturday said the Centre is committed to repealing the provision which provides special status to Jammu and Kashmir, ANI reported. “As far as Article 370 is concerned, our ideological commitment is well-known. It has to go lock stock and barrel as the Home Minister (Amit Shah) clearly mentioned yesterday in Parliament,” Madhav told the news agency. “Our government is committed to resolving all outstanding issue in Kashmir. We are moving in that direction,” he added. While addressing the Lok Sabha on Friday, Home Minister Amit Shah had…
The bonhomie between Scott Morrison and Narendra Modi was on full display on Saturday when the Australian Prime Minister tweeted a selfie with his Indian counterpart and praised him in Hindi “Kithana acha he Modi!”, a message which went viral. Mr. Modi replied to his tweet by saying he was “stoked” about the energy of the India-Australia relations. “You have made the message go viral by writing Kithana acha he Modi!” the Indian Prime Minister said. The two leaders are in Osaka, Japan for the G20 Summit. The newly-elected Australian Prime Minister met his Indian counterpart in the morning and shared some light…
Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the Suraji Yojana of the state government was a top priority scheme, which will revive the rural economy and will become a milestone in generating employment for rural youth. Baghel was chairing a meeting of the State Rural and OBC Area Development Authority held here at Mahanadi Bhawan on Thursday. The meeting also expanded the working area of the authority and made necessary amendment in the authorities’ rules and regulations regarding allocation of fund. The meeting was attended by Scheduled Caste and Tribal Development Minister Dr Premsai Singh, Minister for Home Affairs Tamradhwaj Sahu,…
Q. How do you explain the setback the Congress received in the parliamentary election after the unprecedented mandate it won in the assembly polls just a few months earlier? A. We began fulfilling all the promises we made to farmers, tribals and common folk soon after the assembly election. In the BJP, on the other hand, infighting came to the fore after the election and the morale of the party cadre was low. The BJP was nowhere to be seen in the Lok Sabha campaign. Most political analysts gave the Congress 10 or 11 seats, but when the results came,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held bilateral talks with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman and discussed deepening cooperation in trade and investment, energy security and counter-terrorism with the “invaluable strategic partner” in Osaka. Modi, who is in Japan for the G20 Summit, met with the Saudi Prince on the margins of the summit after the informal BRICS leaders’ meeting. Saudi Arabia is India’s top supplier of crude oil but the two countries have expanded their relationship beyond energy, and their governments have agreed to build a strategic partnership. “An invaluable strategic partner. PM @narendramodi met with…
Union home minister Amit Shah’s question on “who is responsible for partition” triggered a huge row in parliament during the debate on the bill to extend President’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir. The bill sailed through the Lok Sabha, but the argument over it was fierce and drew into its ambit partition and Article 356, under which central Rule can be imposed on a state. In a scathing attack against the Congress, Mr Shah said it was not the BJP but the Congress who used the Article 356 as a political tool to dismiss the existing government in the state.…
Osaka – World leaders attending a Group of 20 summit in Japan are clashing over the values that have served for decades as the foundation of their cooperationPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday put forward a five-point approach to address common challenges facing the world, including protectionism, unilateralism at global financial organisations like the WTO and terrorism.