Politics

West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar said either Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should herself react to his statements or depute a specific minister for the purpose.

Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case of Maharashtra, will be part of the 21-member committee headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, according to a bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

The elite SPG security cover given to Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was withdrawn 28 years after the elite force's continuous deployment, and it was replaced by the 'Z-plus' security of the CRPF.

Stating that the NRC in Assam was part of the Assam Accord signed during the tenure of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, she said the exercise can never be implemented across India.

Kejriwal has been questioning the authenticity of the samples and has urged the government to recollect samples with the help of “neutral” agencies under media presence.

They held placards and raised slogans like 'stop cheating people'.

Mahasabha leader Rajyashree Choudhury also pinned the blame for Mahatma Gandhi’s death on those present at the spot at the time of the incident and the then Nehru government.

Slogans of ‘Release Abdullah’ and ‘Where’s Abdullah’ were also heard both inside and outside the House over the continued detention of MP and former Jammu and Kashmir CM Farooq Abdullah.

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board favoured seeking a review of the Supreme Court's judgement in the Ayodhya issue, and said it was against accepting the five-acre alternative land given for a mosque.

A resolution has already been passed in the state Assembly for setting up a legislative council, BJD leader and the Lok Sabha member from Puri Pinaki Mishra said.

The Home Minister said new hydro electric and solar power projects planned for Ladakh at a cost of Rs 50,000 crore will produce 7,500 MW power and will be completed in the next four years.

Ramesh Jarakiholi is one of the 17 disqualified MLAs who had defected from Congress-JDS alliance leading to the fall of the HD Kumaraswamy government.

A total of 7,944 candidates are in the fray for the election to 49 civic bodies in the state. The voting to elect about 2,100 ward councillors in all 49 municipal bodies across the state started at 7 am and ended at 5 pm.

The reverberations of the Maharashtra and Haryana polls are clearly being felt miles away in Jharkhand which will vote to elect a new government next month.

Critics have countered it, claiming Taseer was being targeted for his write-up 'Divider-in-Chief' in the Time magazine which was critical of Modi.

A media report cited the latest consumption expenditure survey by the National Statistical Office (NSO) to claim that consumer spending fell for the first time in more than four decades in 2017-18, primarily driven by slackening rural demand.