Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Tripura’s outgoing chief minister Manik Sarkar will be today shifting to his new residence–the CPI(M) state committee office. Sarkar, who has ruled the state for 20 years, is in the process of checking out of his official residence on Marx-Engels Sarani, about 500 metres from his new home, CPI(M) state party secretary Bijan Dhar told reporters. “He would be moving in to the party office in a few hours. Sarkar would be living in one room of the party office guest house with his wife Panchali Bhattacharya,” he said. CPI(M)…

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The proceedings of the Lok Sabha were today disrupted for the third consecutive day amid protests by various parties, including NDA allies TDP and Shiv Sena over various issues. As soon as the House met for the day, members from various parties, including TDP, Shiv Sena, TRS, YSR Congress, AIADMK and TMC started raising slogans over various issues, following which Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the proceedings for an hour this morning Most of the protesting members were in the Well before the Speaker took her chair to conduct the proceedings.…

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Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today asked all political parties to ensure that those found desecrating statues are dealt with strictly and said such incidents of vandalism can never be justified. The minister’s comments came hours after the Home Ministry said it had sent an advisory to all states and Union territories to take strong action against anyone involved in the destruction of statues. “I appeal to everyone, all parties, that anyone indulging in such acts should be dealt with strictly. These incidents can never be justified,” Singh told reporters…

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Opposition parties stalled proceedings in the Rajya Sabha for the second day today, forcing an adjournment till 11.30 hours over the PNB banking fraud, special package for Andhra Pradesh and constitution of the Cauvery Water Management Board. As soon as the listed papers were laid on the table, TMC members, legislators from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh rushed into the well of the House shouting slogans. While TMC members raised slogans demanding that the alleged mastermind of the banking fraud Nirav Modi be brought back to the country, the AIADMK…

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The Lok Sabha today was adjourned till noon following vociferous protests by Opposition members over the Punjab National Bank fraud and other issues while those from NDA ally TDP continued to raise their demand for a special package to Andhra Pradesh. Soon after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan made obituary references, members from the Congress, TRS and other parties as well as from the TDP trooped into the Well raising various issues. This was the first day the House met after the recess of the Budget session. Before the start of proceedings,…

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The situation in South Kashmir’s Shopian district was tense after the police on Monday recovered two more bodies, raising the death toll in last night’s firing incident on a vehicle to six “Two more bodies were recovered in Shopian district this morning,” a police spokesperson said Police recovered the body of another militant, identified as Ashiq Hussain Bhat of Lashkar-e-Taiba, seven km from Pahnoo where the Army had fired upon two vehicles when they tried to flee from a Mobile Vehicle Check Post. They also fired on the Army and…

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The BJP will form the government after winning around 45 seats in the 60-member Tripura Assembly, Assam Minister and BJP in-charge for the state Himanta Biswa Sarma today said. The BJP and its ally Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT) were leading in 31 out of the 47 constituencies whose trends were available, according to Election Commission sources here. “We will be winning 44-45 seats in Tripura. We will form the government,” he told reporters here as initial trends indicated that the BJP is leading in 25 seats out the…

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The ruling Congress today described opposition BJP’s Bengaluru specific ‘charge sheet’ against the party government in Karnataka as “bundle of lies not fit to be even put in a waste basket.” Bengaluru Development Minister K J George said BJP was making such “baseless” allegations, out of “frustration” after realising that the party will not win even 55 seats during the coming assembly polls for 224 seats in the state. “It is just a bundle of lies, it is not fit to be even put in a waste basket…they (BJP) feel…

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Kharge Writes To PM Modi Declining Govt’s ‘Special Invitee’ Offer For Lokpal MeetingLeader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi declining the government’s offer to attend the meeting of the Selection Committee for Lokpal appointment as a ‘special invitee’.   The government had invited him for today’s meeting of the Selection Committee as a special invitee.   In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kharge has said that a special invitee invitation is a “concerted effort” to exclude the voice…

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Makkal Neethi Mayyam founder President Kamal Haasan has argued against prohibition, saying a dry regime would lead to the creation of a ‘mafia’. Promise of implementing prohibition was being made to garner women’s votes, Haasan said about an issue discussed by all political parties in Tamil Nadu during the 2016 Assembly polls. Liquor sales is nationalised in Tamil Nadu, with various brands of alcohol being sold through outlets run by state-run Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (TASMAC). While opposition parties including DMK promised implementing prohibition in their election manifesto, ruling…

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