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Rahul Gandhi asked to respond by Feb 15 to notices on remarks on PM
The breach of privilege notices was served on the Congress MP by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey after Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Prime Minister had connections with billionaire Gautam Adani. Rahul Gandhi made the accusation against the Prime Minister during his speech in Lok Sabha while participating in the discussion on motion of thanks on President's address.
Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will change picture of Haryana: Dushyant Chautala
They will change the picture of the state, he told media persons after the inauguration programme of Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. Chautala said that Phase-1 of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, which has been completed, will improve the connectivity of NCR with Mumbai and it will connect Delhi-Gurugram with three National Parks. Not only this, now the journey from Delhi to Jaipur will also be reduced by two hours, he added.
'Extortion-mafia-corruption' is the other name of Trinamool Congress: Nadda
The contents of his speech at the two rallies, first being at Purbasthali in Est Burdwan district and the second being at Kanthi in East Midnapore district were more or less the same. During his speech he drew a comparative between the "progress of India in the world under the leadership of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi" and the "backwardness of West Bengal under the leadership of the chief minister Mamata Banerjee".
Honest govt, safe environment garner huge investments in UP: Piyush Goyal
Addressing the Uttar Pradesh global investors summit in Lucknow on its last day, the commerce minister said that there have been commitments of several lakhs of crores rupees by investors during the summit. "It is the proof that the people now believe that it is now easy to invest in the state, that the state has an honest system, that law and order is in place and the investors have invested their faith in the people of the state," Goyal noted.
Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar appointed new governor of Bihar
As per the notification issued from the President office, Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar will be the new governor of Bihar. He will replace Phagu Chauhan. Arlekar was shifted from the post of Himachal Pradesh's governor to Bihar. The President has sent Phagu Chauhan to Meghalaya as the state's new governor.
Explainer: CAA and its shadow on N-E politics
This Act grants citizenship to refugees from six communities of religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh only if they have lived in India for at least six years. This amendment of the Citizenship Act of 1955 provides a means to acquire Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities that are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis or Christians, who entered India before December 2014.
Explainer: The positives and flipside of a caste census
The caste census is a caste-wise breakup of the population that enlists all scheduled and unscheduled castes in terms of both numbers and percentage. India's first caste census was conducted in 1881. In January 2017, instead of the poverty line, the Union government agreed to use Socio-Economic Caste Census as an instrument for identification of beneficiaries and transferring funds for social schemes in rural areas.
BJP, Bihar Grand Alliance plot ways to upset caste equations of rivals
The BJP has managed to gain political ground in states like Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Haryana on the basis of Hindutva and the politics of breaking the government. Maharashtra is an example of breaking the government. However, the BJP also lost power in a similar way when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar used the same tactic in August last year and forced the saffron party out of power in Bihar.
Playing caste census card, Bihar Grand Alliance puts BJP in a fix
The BJP has some certain patterns of contesting elections and one of them is to polarize Hindu voters. Such a ploy of the saffron party was successful in states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and the BJP is looking to repeat the performance in Bihar. However, the political ground of Bihar is not looking conducive for the saffron party as the seven-party government of the Grand Alliance has prepared policies to counter it and one such policy is a caste-based census.
President accepts Maharashtra Governor Koshyari's resignation, Ramesh Bais is new Governor
Simultaneously, the President has transferred Jharkhand Governor Ramesh Bais as the new head of Maharashtra Raj Bhavan, according to an official communique this morning. The appointment of Bais, 75 -- who has been the previous Governor of Tripura -- will take effect from the date he assumes charge in Maharashtra.
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