The Delhi High Court on Wednesday deferred hearing on Associated Journals Limited’s (AJL) plea, challenging the single bench judgment to vacate the National Herald House in the national capital, to January 16. AJL is the publisher of the National Herald newspaper.
The High Court changes the date at the request of Abhishek Manu Singhvi. Earlier the hearing was scheduled for January 15.
On December 21 last year, the Delhi High Court had dismissed the petition filed by AJL, challenging the Centre’s decision to cancel its lease and vacate the Herald House.
The Centre, in its eviction order passed on October 30 last year, had mentioned the violation of lease conditions by AJL and had said that the Herald House’s 56-year-old lease to AJL had ended.
The publisher had then approached the high court on November 12 last year against the eviction order of the Union Urban Development Ministry.
AJL, in its petition, stated that the Central government’s decision to cancel the lease is “politically motivated.” It further stated that the impugned order is vitiated by mala fides and biases, and had been issued with oblique political motives.
“The proceedings have been initiated for the purposes of scuttling the voices of dissent and the voice of the largest opposition party in the country. It is a clear affront to the freedom of speech and expression guaranteed under Article 19(1) (a) of the Constitution and a deliberate attempt to suppress and destroy the legacy of the first Prime Minister of the country Jawaharlal Nehru, by the powers that be,” the petition read.
AJL also stated that shutting down National Herald premises was a “deliberate attempt by the government to suppress and destroy the legacy of Nehru.
Kit Harington believes that the final season of “Game of Thrones” was “designed to break” the cast of the blockbuster fantasy series. The actor, who plays fan favourite Jon Snowin the HBO show has said that the team was so tired and sleep deprived from the emotional goodbyes that they just wanted to be “done” with it.
Harington told to GQ Australia that the last season of ‘Thrones’ seemed to be designed to break us. Everyone was broken at the end. I don’t know if we were crying because we were sad it was ending or if we were crying because it was so fucking tiring. We were sleep deprived. It was like it was designed to make you think, ‘Right, I’m fucking sick of this.
“I remember everyone walking around towards the end going, ‘I’ve had enough now. I love this, it’s been the best thing in my life, I’ll miss it one day but I’m done’,” he added.
The show that aired in 2011 went to become a cult hit and scripted history at several award shows, but the actor revealed that he was initially shocked by the success of the series.
“After the first season I would say to people, ‘We definitely won’t get a second season’. Then after the second season I went, ‘Definitely not a third, no.’ everyone was, like, ‘Are you f**king kidding me, Kit? Of course we’re going to get a third’,” he said.
Harington, 32, looks back at the show fondly – the show gave him a breakout role and introduced him to his wife, actor Rose Leslie.
“That weight is off my shoulders. It’s done now. I can be proud of it. We’ve got eight seasons, and they can sit on a bookshelf at home ’til the end of time,” he said of the final season.
The body of an unidentified woman, who apparently had tattooed “Mohit” in Hindi on her right hand, was found stuffed inside a suitcase near Kondli canal in east Delhi’s Ashok Nagar area, police said on Wednesday.
The trolley bag was found abandoned near the canal at Dharamshila Road. The body had sharp injuries, Deputy Commissioner of Police (east) Panjak Singh said. He also added that the body had tattoo mark with “Mohit” in Hindi was found written on her right hand.
A case has been registered at the New Ashok Vihar Nagar police station and the matter is being probed, the body has not been identified yet, we are also scanning through the profiles of missing women registered at the local police stations, the DCP said.
Since no CCTV cameras have been found at or near the spot, it is not known that who would have dumped the bag. The body has been preserved in a mortuary and will be sent for post-mortem while an investigation is underway, said the police.
It refers to the government decision favoured generally by the opposition parties but only in principle regarding 10 per cent reservation for the Poor Upper Caste covering roughly 90 per cent of people from the General category with the parameters defined for getting reservation benefits being as high as household income above Rs 8 lakhs per annum, agricultural land less than 5 acres, residences less than 1,000 sq ft and residential plot less than 100 sq yards in a notified municipal area and 200 sq yards in a non-notified municipal area. If the Central government is really sincere about the economically weaker section (EWS) of the society, these parameters need to be made realistic. Otherwise, the proposed 10 per cent quota should be doubled to at least 20 per cent.
However, the proposed policy is not likely to be struck down by the Apex Court which has fixed maximum 50 per cent reservation quota only for backward classes made under article 16(4) of Constitution as per 1992 clarification by the Supreme Court. Simultaneously, the Central Government should implement verdict dated September 26, 2018, by a five-member Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court for the exclusion of creamy layer from reserved categories under scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Reservation-benefits must be given to families with up to two children.
The complete policy of Reservation incorporated in the Constitution for a limited period of just 15 years to create a homogeneous casteless society is in itself a big failure whereas this policy has instead made people of reserved categories separately identified from others.
Madhu Agrawal
Power (Shakti) and discipline
Afternoon Voice cherishes the values ingrained in Mahaveer Hanumanji. There is a lot of indiscipline and loose talk in our country. PM Modi, Amit Shah, and the RSS must do utmost to eradicate such bad habits growing among the masses.
Mahendra Singh
Reinstatement of CBI Chief a setback for Modi govt!
Reinstatement of Alok Verma as the CBI chief by the Supreme Court is a setback for the Modi govt who sacked and sent him on forced leave for charges of corruption. The controversy was termed as CBI v/s CBI as both Alok Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana had abused each other of corruption but the government’s midnight action was what looked suspicious as there are certain procedures that need to be followed in sacking a key member of an organisation that overlooks corruption in our country. It seems that the Modi government acts in haste and its advisors don’t seem to know the law of the land.
Corruption by the CBI head is a serious issue and needs to be addressed properly within the jurisdiction of the law. The SC wants the government and the leader of Opposition along with the Chief Justice of India to meet and look at the matter of corruption without any bias or nepotism. But with elections around the corner and BJP as well as Congress on loggerheads, justice cannot be expected in the case of corruption where each of the party’s favouring an individual for their poll prospects. It is the Supreme Court who should now appoint a special bench of former judges for a speedy solution on a matter that looks very critical and serious for the country!
S.N.Kabra
0.75% discount on fuel purchased through credit cards
The Union government post-demonetisation of currency on November 8, 2016, to encourage the use of cashless transactions, had started giving several discounts for promoting the use of credit and debit cards which also included 0.75 per cent discount on the purchase of petrol and diesel through credit or debit cards. Due to inadequate publicity, it is not clear which discounts are still prevailing which also included on online payment of insurance premiums.
With all such discounts having since lost relevance after the normalisation of currency-position; the Union government should not burden exchequer with subsidy-loss through such discounts anymore. Instead, steps should be taken to ensure banking to be made least expensive including in respect of credit and debit cards. The concept of minimum-balance-charge for bank-accounts should be altogether abolished with banks already earning a lot on providing a very small interest-rate on bank-balances in savings-accounts and no interest on credits in current-accounts. Likewise charges for the issue and maintain debit cards should be abolished.
However, consolidated steps can be taken to minimise currency-circulation which may also include a monthly cash-withdrawal limit from banks of say Rs 96,000 for an individual, which may be gradually reduced to Rs 50,000 per month.
Madhu Agrawal
Limit monetary benefit to ultra-rich Cricketers
The Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced an award money of Rs 15 lakhs extra in addition to the equal amount of match-money to each of the cricketers having played in recently concluded series with Australia where India won the series. All this is in addition to a very hefty annual salary-package of up to Rs 7 crores per cricketer and lifetime heavy pension after their retirement from cricket paid by BCCI.
It is absolutely unfair to create such a class-distinction in a society where cricketers earning otherwise also through their costly appearance in advertisements and business-income are paid so heavily from the BCCI funded through public-craze where cricket has become a religion for people. There should be an upper-limit of salary-package for BCCI which may be equivalent to a highest paid bureaucrat in the country.
If earning of BCCI is a criterion for payment to cricketers, then priests of famous temples can also demand such hefty payments based on the income of temples. The central government should ensure that BCCI funds may be utilised for public-welfare schemes in the manner income from famous Hindu temples like Tirupati are spent.
Subhash Chandra Agrawal
Strike – Where country loses
Currently, it is seen that BEST and Banks are organising strikes on a major level and the motive behind this strike is simple fulfillment of their demands. But do they ever realise how our country is adversely affected by these kinds of strikes? When BEST goes on a Strike, every common man is suffered and when Banks goes on strike, every financial work is hampered directly affecting the bank customer. Today, if we see our country is in debt which means every citizen carrying a hefty sum of Rs 60,000 as a share of the country’s debt. So everyone should think in this situation are really this strike important, should we really do this strikes now and then! If we really want our country to progress, every citizen should contribute with the sense of sacrifice and keeping personnel demands at distance. Otherwise, in no time, we will see a downfall rather than a rising Country.
Nehali Shimpi
Strike and senior citizens
I, a senior citizen aged 71 years from North Mumbai and a huge number of senior citizens above the age of 60 years travelling by BEST buses everyday and have savings accounts with nationalised and the other banks, are wholeheartedly grateful to all the strikers for putting me and crores of senior citizens like me into unbearable troubles for three consecutive days!!! It is ridiculous to note that though the bank employees get the heftiest salaries and bonus with so many types of leaves and allowances, they go on strike nearly every now and then. They are entitled also to go on privileged leaves and enjoy outings with their families at the cost of the bank (read crores of bank customers like me). Is this their art of avoiding work?
Hansraj Bhat
(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)
While his expressing concern on the decaying situation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, a senior UN official has urged all sides to intensify efforts to find a peaceful and civilian solution to the one of the worst crisis of refugees of the world. Acting Resident Co-ordinator and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Myanmar Knut Ostby said that he was deeply concerned on the violence which caused the death of 13 Myanmar police officers in the raids by ethnic Rakhine rebels on January 4. Ostby urges all sides to ensure the protection of all civilians and uphold their responsibilities under International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law.
Around 350 militants from the Arakan Army stormed four police stations in the northern Rakhine State on Friday, “killing 13 policemen and wounding nine others”, according to a statement released by the Army chief’s office.
Ostby is deeply concerned about the situation in northern and central Rakhine State” where an estimated 4,500 people have been displaced so far due to fighting between the Arakan Army and Myanmar’s security forces, Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told reporters on Tuesday and then added that Ostby was shocked by the reports of attacks on January 4, regrets the loss of life and offers his deepest sympathies to the families of the police officers who were killed.
He also appeals to all sides to intensify efforts to find a peaceful solution to the situation and to ensure humanitarian access to all people affected by the violence, Dujarric said. He also added that the United Nations has been in close contact with the Myanmar authorities in recent weeks and has offered to support ongoing efforts to respond to the humanitarian needs of those affected by the violence.
Myanmar doesn’t consider Rohingyas as an ethnic group and imposes the theory that they are Bangladeshi migrants who are living illigally in their country. The UN condemns the act and described the atrocities by the Myanmar military on Rohingya refugees as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing while the right groups declared it a pure genocide. However, Myanmar Budhist majoriy rejects the charge saying that its security forces launched a counter insurgency operation on august 25 in the response to Rohingya militant attacks.
The UN estimats that, around 700,000 Rohingya Muslim minority have fled to Bangladesh to escape the violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 25 last year, when the army launched a military crackdown.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) poll campaign in the state and inaugurated several infrastructure projects in Solapur, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday began his tour of the drought-affected Marathwada region in Maharashtra.
During his visit to Beed district in the region, Thackeray will hand over 100 cattle fodder-laden trucks and other essential supplies to farmers, a Sena leader said. The Sena chief is likely to highlight the agrarian crisis and criticise the BJP-led government over the same. According to Sena leaders, Thackeray will interact with farmers and distribute food grain and fodder for animals.
After the distribution of fodder and other essential supplies, the Sena chief will undertake a tour of the drought-hit region, he said.
He will also address a farmers’ rally in Beed before leaving for Jalna district, where he will hold talks with farmers, he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched road and underground sewerage system projects developed at an investment of Rs 1,100 crore in Solapur.
At a public rally there, Modi launched the four-laning of Solapur-Osmanabad section of NH-211, underground sewerage system and three sewage treatment plants.
Modi also laid the foundation stone for a Rs 1811 crore housing project of 30,000 units under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
Modi commissioned the four-laned 98.717 km Solapur- Tuljapur-Osmanabad section on NH-211 (New NH-52). The Rs 972.50-crore toll road project will improve connectivity between Solapur and the Marathwada region.
The housing project will benefit the homeless poor like rag pickers, rickshaw pullers, textile and beedi workers. It involves an investment of Rs 1811.33 crore, of which Rs 750 crore will be provided by the Centre and the state as assistance.
Modi laid the foundation stone for the Rs 244 crore water supply and sewerage system as part of area-based development in the Solapur smart city area.
This project, developed under the smart city mission, is expected to bring about significant improvements in service delivery.
During his last visit to Solapur in August 2014, Modi had laid the foundation stone for the four-laning of the Maharashtra-Karnataka border section of NH 9.
He had also commissioned the 765-kV Solapur-Raichur power transmission line then.
After a major blow that BJP received recently in the Hindi heartland states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh during the elections in December, it runs across as Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev, who was a staunch BJP supporter is likely to shift his loyalties towards the opposition, looking at the change in the political scenario ahead of the elections this year.
The politician and the co-founder of a billion-dollar consumer products business, Baba Ramdev’s support was considered to be a crucial role for the BJP in the previous election. However, just before the 2014 elections, he made a series of public remarks backing Modi as the man to lead India. Nonetheless, it was just the beginning of a multi-pronged campaign by Ramdev in support of Modi. According to the reports, a communications firm called Social Revolution Media and Research Pvt Ltd were started by two directors from companies under the Patanjali umbrella. It held weekly meetings with the BJP’s information technology division to coordinate messages on Twitter and other social media platforms.
Apart from that, the members of Ramdev’s organisation described how hundreds of thousands of volunteers spread out to mobilise votes for Modi to win with a mandate in 2014. Narendra Shastri, a yoga teacher with a Patanjali trust and one of the volunteers had said that he worked from dawn to dark, ringing doorbells and handing out pamphlets backing Modi’s party. Two days after the election results were announced in 2014, a pair of senior BJP leaders attended a stadium event in New Delhi to thank Ramdev and his volunteers. Both had signed the pledges as shown in Ramdev’s video released earlier in that year.
BJP MP Sharad Bansode commented, “Ramdev was never anti-BJP. He is always in support of the party. Whatever statements he is giving doesn’t necessarily mean that he has gone against the saffron party. Even if he passes a statement supporting Rahul Gandhi, that does not mean he is in support of Congress.”
In June 2018, BJP President Amit Shah met Baba Ramdev as a part of his ‘Sampark Abhiyan’ to seek his help for the 2019 general election. While Shah assured his full support to Ramdev in all his Swadeshi projects and formation of the proposed Vedic Education Board, the latter by way of reciprocal gesture left no one in doubt that he and his followers would go all-out in lending support to Shah’s party at the upcoming hustings. However, a few months after the meeting, Patanjali owner Baba Ramdev said that he would not support any person or oppose any party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Expressing his views on this, Baba Ramdev said, “I am an apolitical person, I am not bound by political limitations, Mother India is my first priority and my work is my religion. So, my only focus is that.” However, it is believed that this shift is also in retaliation to the change in the political scenario as BJP faced a drawback in Karnataka and Gujarat elections. However, he had also said in an interview that he won’t be campaigning for the BJP for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik stated, “There was a time when Ramdev used to claim himself to be independent and that he maintains good relations with all the parties. But now, it seems he has understood that the change of power is near at hand and changing his allegiance just as Mohan Bhagwat is doing.”
Later, Ramdev also challenged Modi government that it may prove to be costly in the next general elections if the price hike was not controlled. Former Rajya Sabha member and academician Bhalchandra Mungerkar expressed, “It’s evident that Ramdev has understood that Modi has failed to keep his promises made in 2014. Ramdev giving statements in favour of Congress can help the party in the upcoming poll.”
In 2012, Baba Ramdev called an indefinite fast against corruption and black money in the capital. While calling off the strike, Baba launched an all-out attack on Congress stating them responsible for the corruption taking place in the nation and had said that it is the most corrupt party in India. Baba Ramdev sprang in a surprise to all, in a yoga event organised in 2018, when he said that he is “on friendly terms” with Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Shiv Sena MP Vinayak Raut asserted, “It’s a fact that Ramdev’s anti-BJP stance might affect the party. There was a time when he was backing Modi, but the government’s decisions of Demonetisation and GST seem to have affected his business as well.”
Ramdev Baba has always managed to grab the limelight for all the wrong reasons. Now, before the elections, Baba has taken a midway to jump over the side of the winning party for his benefit.
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Before 2014, Baba Ramdev was venomous about the UPA; he did protest and gave glossy pictures to people about how everything would be prosperous and fine if they are voted out of power. He convinced voters about how common public would benefit with lakhs of rupees in their account, how the black money will flow back to India from foreign banks. However, after 2014, the situation for the common man has worsened. Baba became a successful businessman overnight and then preferred sitting on a wall divided between Congress and BJP so that he can jump any side after the election. Now, he is a corporate executive. Why would he align with BJP which helped him set up billion dollar business! While warning the Modi government that rising fuel prices would cost the government dearly, Baba Ramdev said that he would not campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Ramdev made these remarks while he was speaking on the importance of yoga at an event organised by a media house. While emphasising the importance of yoga, he gave special mention to Rahul and Sonia Gandhi who practiced yoga regularly. Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, known for his close association with the BJP, sprang a surprise on when he said that “he is on friendly terms” with Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Ramdev with time has matured as a politician/businessman. He knew nothing could be achieved by siding one politician or a political party. He had ambitions to become the Finance Minister of the country; Modi did not care about Baba’s sentiments. He is no longer that old baba who used to teach yoga. Now he knows that united opposition might come in power in 2019; so, now he has changed his tone and Gandhis, who were corrupt, as per him in 2014, are on friendly terms with him now.
He took a dig at PM Narendra Modi by terming him as a man in a hurry to be PM and by expressing disappointment over party nominations going to “tainted” candidates. The distrust appears to be mutual, with the yoga entrepreneur’s remarks completing the collapse of what was once seen as coming together of two forces united as much by their commitment to saffron issues as the intense antipathy towards Sonia Gandhi-led Congress. Baba Ramdev’s remarks came months after BJP president Amit Shah met him and sought his support for the next general elections. The BJP president’s meeting was a part of the saffron party’s contact for support campaign. Recently, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev cleared the air on whether he will campaign for any political party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2019. In a clear indication that he may not back any political party in 2019 general elections, Ramdev said that he was not bound by political limitations and Mother India is his first priority. If Mother India is his priority and every politician and political party is close to him, then what he did before 2014, what was that? Had anybody paid him to agitate and create anger against the UPA? If the UPA is very friendly to him and Rahul Gandhi is his buddy, then why did he accused Congress of trying to eliminate him on Ramleela ground? Is he speaking the truth now or he was speaking the truth then?
This is the second time when yoga guru has reiterated that he would not campaign for the BJP. Sometime back, Ramdev had categorically said that he would not campaign for the BJP. He told media that he has withdrawn politically. In 2014, Ramdev had openly supported the BJP and its then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. While the BJP has not gone public with its fresh view about Ramdev, the leadership, according to the sources, is exasperated with him for what is being referred to as a stubborn pitch for tickets for his nominees. Ramdev wants about a score of his nominees to be fielded by the party. These include an influential officer of an investigating agency, which is supposed to be probing the yoga guru’s flourishing business. Ramdev wanted the officer to be fielded from Amroha in UP. BJP’s central election committee instead allotted the seat to former cricketer Chetan Chauhan. The party also turned down his pitch for Nawal Kishore Yadav for Pataliputra seat. Although Nawal Kishore had appeared a shoo-in for the key seat, the party eventually settled for Ram Kripal Yadav when he crossed over from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). However, other candidates of Ramdev remain hopeful. One of those, Chand Maharaj, also a guru, has even started his campaign for Alwar. Ramdev has recommended other gurus as well — Sumedhanand who was seeking the ticket for Sikar and Debvrat Maharaj who has shown interest in Haryana’s Hisar constituency. Ramdev also recommended Karan Singh, who contested the last LS poll on a BSP ticket, for Kairana in western UP. He has staked his claim by impressing upon the party his contribution to saffron causes. Whereas BJP lauded his role in popularising yoga and his drive against black money but said that they can’t sacrifice the party’s interests to appease “someone’s outsize ego”. To which, Ramdev had described BJP ministers as “arrogant” while lauding Rahul for “giving a lifeline to a virtually dead Congress”. The sudden praise for Rahul Gandhi comes two weeks after Ramdev’s company, Patanjali announced to shift its proposed food park outside Uttar Pradesh after not getting the required clearances despite getting a nod from the Centre. Patanjali MD Acharya Balkrishna had then lashed out at the Yogi Adityanath-led government over its indifferent and negative attitude in granting clearance to the Rs 6,000 crore food park, which would be spread over 455 acres of land along the Yamuna Expressway. However, Adityanath went into damage-control mode and directed officials to expedite its opening. While Patanjali’s growth in the FMCG sector has been fast, it has also come under the spotlight for sub-standard products. Brushing aside such allegations, Ramdev said that each product went through thorough checks by more than 300 scientists before being launched in the market. Last year, nearly 40 per cent of Ayurveda products, including items from Patanjali, were found to be of substandard quality by Haridwar’s Ayurveda and Unani Office, a Right to Information (RTI) reply revealed. To cover up all these and to seek some sort of revenge, he further attacked BJP stating people who are making the cow a religious animal are wrong. The cow has no religion. Petrol to people and Congress to Cow, he spoke about all those issues which are either on the hit list or the list of BJP. Let’s see how he deals with his shifting loyalties in 2019.
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The NCP on Tuesday dubbed a “slap” in the face of Narendra Modi government the supreme court order reinstating CBI Director Alok Verma, who was sent on administrative leave by the Centre last year.
The apex court has set aside the Centre’s October 23 order to divest Verma of his powers following a feud between him and his deputy Rakesh Asthana.
NCP national spokesperson Nawab Malik said people are now hoping that Verma will act on major cases, including the Rafale deal, before his tenure as the CBI director ends on January 31.
“The SC’s decision to reinstate Alok Verma is a slap in the face of the Modi government. Policy decision is a different issue, but he does have the powers to arrest,” Malik said.
While reinstating Verma, the top court has restrained him from taking any major policy decision till completion of a CVC (Central Vigilance Commission) probe into corruption charges against him.
“People are now hoping he will act on major cases he was handling, including Rafale,” Malik added.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday deferred hearing on Associated Journals Limited’s (AJL) plea, challenging the single bench judgment to vacate the National Herald House in the national capital, to January 16. AJL is the publisher of the National Herald newspaper.
Kit Harington believes that the final season of “Game of Thrones” was “designed to break” the cast of the blockbuster fantasy series. The actor, who plays fan favourite Jon Snowin the HBO show has said that the team was so tired and sleep deprived from the emotional goodbyes that they just wanted to be “done” with it.
The body of an unidentified woman, who apparently had tattooed “Mohit” in Hindi on her right hand, was found stuffed inside a suitcase near Kondli canal in east Delhi’s Ashok Nagar area, police said on Wednesday.
While his expressing concern on the decaying situation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, a senior UN official has urged all sides to intensify efforts to find a peaceful and civilian solution to the one of the worst crisis of refugees of the world. Acting Resident Co-ordinator and Humanitarian Co-ordinator for Myanmar Knut Ostby said that he was deeply concerned on the violence which caused the death of 13 Myanmar police officers in the raids by ethnic Rakhine rebels on January 4. Ostby urges all sides to ensure the protection of all civilians and uphold their responsibilities under International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) poll campaign in the state and inaugurated several infrastructure projects in Solapur, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday began his tour of the drought-affected Marathwada region in Maharashtra.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched road and underground sewerage system projects developed at an investment of Rs 1,100 crore in Solapur.
The NCP on Tuesday dubbed a “slap” in the face of Narendra Modi government the supreme court order reinstating CBI Director Alok Verma, who was sent on administrative leave by the Centre last year.