New Delhi, ,27/2: The rules for the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) for fast-tracking citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are likely to be issued before the Model Code of Conduct for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections comes into effect. The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) gets…
Shimla, 27/2: Congress is staring at losing its government in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday after disgruntled MLAs switched sides to vote for BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan against party candidate Abhishek Singhvi in the Rajya Sabha election and eventually winning on a draw of lots. After the polling, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu alleged that six…
Bhubaneswar, 27/2: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated Mission Shakti Bazar here in the city. Opening the MSB, the CM said that it will be a strong platform to support sustainable livelihoods for women in rural and semi urban areas of the state. It has been developed under 5T initiative to promote…
Chandigarh, 27/2: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday named three sitting MLAs and two former MPs to fight the Lok Sabha elections from four seats in Delhi and one in Haryana, where the party has entered into an alliance with the Congress. The party named sitting MLAs Somnath Bharti (New Delhi), Sahiram Pahalwan (South…
New Delhi, 27/2: Group Captains Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla are the four astronauts selected for Gaganyaan, the maiden space mission of India. Prime Minister Narendran Modi bestowed ‘astronaut wings’ to the four at a function at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. He also…
Patna, 27/2: A vehicle in RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s convoy met with an accident in Purnea district of Bihar, late last night. According to PTI, at least one person was reportedly killed while six others were injured in the accident. Tejashwi Yadav is currently on the state-wide Jan Vishwas Yatra. Yadav will be on a…
UP, 27/2: Samajwadi Party MLA and leader Manoj Kumar Pandey resigned from the post of Samajwadi Party Chief Whip today as voting in the elections for the 10 Rajya Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh is under way.. This comes after eight MLAs of the Samajwadi Party did not attend a meeting called by party chief…
Sweden, 26/2: Sweden is ready to take its responsibility in NATO, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday after Hungary’s parliament voted in favour of ratifying the Nordic country’s bid to join the military alliance. Hungary on Monday became the final NATO member to approve Sweden’s application from 2022 to join the alliance in response…
Mumbai, 26/2:Vijay Shekhar Sharma has stepped down as part-time non-executive Chairman of Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL), and the board of the bank has been reconstituted. The Reserve Bank has barred the PPBL from accepting deposits and credits from any customer post-March 15 for persistent non-compliances and continued material supervisory concerns in the bank.
Waynad, 26/2:CPI senior leader Annie Raja will contest as Left Democratic Front (LDF) candidate at Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in Kerala, where Congress top leader Rahul Gandhi is most likely to be in the fray for the second consecutive time. CPI decided to field a candidate of national stature at Wayanad as Congress’s national leader…
