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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is stifling democracy to save his "close friend" industrialist Gautam Adani, according to former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.
He was referring to the comments made by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar at a presser in New Delhi called to announce the Karnataka poll dates.
On Wednesday, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the Congress and the JD(S) had struck a deal for the Assembly elections to be held in the State.
The central government's contribution in this centrally assisted scheme to be made under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana will be Rs 40.05 crore.
Speaking at the 'News 18 Rising India' programme here, Shah said Gandhi should go to a higher court to fight his case. Instead, Shah added, he has been trying to put blame on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Jaishankar, speaking at Network18's 'Rising India Summit', deplored attempts by Rahul Gandhi to draw parallels between the situation along the LAC with China and the Ukraine conflict.
A bench of justices KM Joseph and BV Nagarathna asked senior advocate Vivek Tankha and advocate Sumeer Sodhi to serve the copy of the petition to the standing counsel of Uttar Pradesh government and posted the matter for further hearing on April 5.
The Congress, however, has not withdrawn the privilege notice yet and demanded an apology from the chief minister instead of a mere withdrawal of the statement.
According to the ministry, four lakh women are directly engaged in sanitation and waste management as an enterprise in urban India.
The chief minister will call on Union Home Minister Shah around 10.30 pm. He is scheduled to meet with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday, according to Andhra Bhawan officials here.
The city logged 153 cases with a positivity rate of 9.13 per cent on Sunday and 139 cases with a positivity rate of 4.98 per cent on Saturday.
Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said he was unable to discern how the article could be said to have defamed the complainant when it "nowhere says that the respondent (Singh) is involved in the wrongful activities, nor does it make any other derogatory reference to her in connection therewith".
On Wednesday, Himachal witnessed a spurt in Covid-19 cases with 255 persons testing positive in the past 24 hours and one fatality, health officials said.
Delivering the second Dr Rajendra Prasad Memorial Lecture, Dhankhar, the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, said it is imperative that legislators distinguish between their legislative obligations and party compulsions.
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan said Congress leaders 'who are slaves of the Gandhi family' are trying to make Rahul Gandhi a national leader even though he is the 'most unsuccessful, weak, irresponsible, careless and egotist leader of the party'.
On Wednesday, The Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘Gaurav Yatra’ in support of late Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district will start on April 2, BJP’s local leadership announced.
The rebuttal came after reports that discussions were held during the recent ICC board meeting in Dubai about Pakistan possibly playing their league games in Bangladesh.
Four men had been sentenced to death for the 2008 series of Jaipur explosions that killed 71 people. On Wednesday, the Rajasthan High Court acquitted them and criticized the investigating agencies' "shoddy investigation".
On Wednesday, Goa’s Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Yuri Alemao termed the budget presented by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant “maximum announcements, minimum achievements”.
On Wednesday, the CBI told a Delhi court it would file a supplementary charge sheet against RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi, Tejashwi Yadav, their daughter Misa Bharti, and others in the land-for-jobs scam case within three weeks.
Bengaluru's residents tend to head out of the city on weekends. For one, even with new pubs and cafes popping up at every corner every day, the city is a nightmare to navigate.
On Wednesday, the AAP demanded the Election Commission recognize it as a national party immediately and ensure it gets all the "facilities" it is entitled to during the Karnataka Assembly elections.
Dropped from the playing XI in Test matches, stripped off vice-captaincy across formats and demoted in the annual central contracts category, Rahul will need to make a personal statement not only with the bat but also as a leader of men.
DC have been fretting about an Indian replacement for Pant, who met with a horrific car accident late last year and ruled out of competitive cricket for at least one year.
Morbi Bridge Tragedy: At least 135 people were killed while 56 were injured after British-era suspension bridge snapped on October 30, 2022 in Gujarat's Morbi district.