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Rajya Sabha ruckus: Opposition rejects inquiry panel, says bid to ‘intimidate’

10Sep

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India, Politics

Rajya Sabha ruckus: Opposition rejects inquiry panel, says bid to ‘intimidate’

The Congress and other Opposition parties have decided to not be a part of an inquiry committee that Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu wants to line up to research the acrimonious scenes that were witnessed on August 11 within the House during the passage of the overall Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill. Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Naidu Thursday saying the constitution of the committee seems to be “designed” to “intimidate” MPs into silence. Sources said all the main Opposition parties — among them the Trinamool Congress, CPM, CPI, RJD, Shiv Sena, NCP and Aam Aadmi Party — have decided an equivalent . After the unruly scenes, the Opposition parties had alleged that “outsiders” who weren't a part of “Parliament security” were ...

Locked Rahul Gandhi’s handle tamporarily for policy beach :twitter to high court

12Aug

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India, Politics

Locked Rahul Gandhi’s handle tamporarily for policy beach :twitter to high court

NEW DELHI: Twitter on Wednesday told the Delhi supreme court that it's temporarily locked the account of Congress member Rahul Gandhi and removed a post where he shared the photograph of the oldsters of a nine-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped and murdered in southwest Delhi. The microblogging site said that the tweet has been removed because it was found to be in violation of the platform’s policy. “The account has been locked and therefore the tweet isn't available,” advocate Sajan Poovayya said, in response to a petition seeking registration of FIR against Gandhi for allegedly revealing the victim’s identity by posting a photograph together with her parents on Twitter. A bench of judge DN Patel and justice Jyoti Singh expressed satisfaction with the “prompt” action taken by T...

Rahul Gandhi likely to visit Maharashtra, has shown interest in Bal Thackeray’s work: Sanjay Raut

6Aug

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Politics

Rahul Gandhi likely to visit Maharashtra, has shown interest in Bal Thackeray’s work: Sanjay Raut

Even as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hosted 100 Opposition MPs for breakfast on Tuesday, he's likely to also make his first visit to Maharashtra since the MVA government came to power in 2019. The party, however, has not confirmed when he would be touring the state. Gandhi has reportedly shown keen interest in how late Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray worked, handled his party and relations. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, who met Gandhi on Monday, said, “We had a healthy exchange of ideas on various issues during our meeting. The Congress leader sounded positive and assured .” Raut said Gandhi sought to urge an insight into Balasaheb’s sort of working. “Rahul wanted to understand Balasaheb’s nature and his sort of working. He wanted to understand how the Sena chief went about handling ...

Rajya Sabha Passes Deposit Insurance & Credit Guarantee Corporation (Amendment) Bill

5Aug

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Politics

Rajya Sabha Passes Deposit Insurance & Credit Guarantee Corporation (Amendment) Bill

nsurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (Amendment) Bill amid opposition uproar, with minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman saying the proposed legislation will help small depositors, including those of the stressed PMC Bank. The bill was passed after a brief debate. The Bill proposes that albeit a bank is temporarily unable to fulfil its obligations thanks to restrictions like moratorium, depositors can access their deposits to the extent of the deposit insurance cover through interim payments by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC). For this, the Bill seeks to insert a replacement Section within the DICGC Act, 1961. Replying to a quick debate, Sitharaman said the legislation would offer relief to small bank depositors. She said the proposed legislation also ...

Five journalists move Supreme Court over snooping

3Aug

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Politics

Five journalists move Supreme Court over snooping

Five journalists, reported to possess been under surveillance through Pegasus software, have moved the Supreme Court for a judicial oversight mechanism to be found out to affect complaints. Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, S.N.M. Abdi, Prem Shankar Jha, Rupesh Kumar Singh and Ipsa Shataksi have moved the apex court, saying they were subjected to “deeply intrusive surveillance”. They said a forensic examination done by Amnesty International on mobile phones revealed traces of interference. Explained | Pegasus and therefore the laws on surveillance in India They said their fundamental rights, primarily of privacy, and dignity, were violated by the snooping. A Bench led by judge of India N.V. Ramana is scheduled to listen to on August 5 three petitions, including one filed jointly by senior journalis...

Does President Kovind Pay Rs 2.75 Lakh a Month as Income Tax?

30Jul

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India, Politics

Does President Kovind Pay Rs 2.75 Lakh a Month as Income Tax?

President Ram Nath Kovind is in Kanpur on a four-day visit. But before reaching Kanpur, he stimulated a touch of an issue . Speaking at a public event, he said that while he does earn a healthy salary of Rs 5 lakh a month as President of India, he's unable to save lots of much, as he pays Rs 2.75 lakh as tax monthly . He acknowledged that, as a results of this, he makes fewer savings than several other officials in positions of public service.

UP makes negative RT-PCR mandatory for those visiting from these states

19Jul

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Politics

UP makes negative RT-PCR mandatory for those visiting from these states

Uttar Pradesh has said visitors from states like Maharashtra, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and people with a positivity rate of quite 3 per cent will need to show a negative RT-PCR report no older than four days, consistent with HT's sister publication Live Hindustan on Monday. aside from this, only those that have received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine are going to be allowed to enter UP, the report added. Live Hindustan said chief minister Yogi Adityanath took the choice during the meeting of Team-9 officials on Sunday. Adityanath said that Covid-19 cases are surging in several states of the country. A negative RT-PCR report should be made mandatory for people coming to Uttar Pradesh from those states where the speed of corona positive is quite three per cent, which isn't quite four days o...

Sher Bahadur Deuba wins vote of confidence in Nepal Parliament

19Jul

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India, Politics

Sher Bahadur Deuba wins vote of confidence in Nepal Parliament

Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba secured a cushty majority within the House of Representatives on Sunday, Together with his Nepali Congress being joined by most other parties — including a neighborhood of the most Opposition Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) — in supporting the vote of confidence Tabled within the House on the primary day that it convened after it had been reinstated by the Supreme Court. A total of 165 members voted in support of Deuba, with just 83, mostly loyalists of CPN-UML chairman and outgoing Prime minister K P Sharma Oli, casting their votes against. The vote came after hours of debate, which saw a series of allegations and counter-allegations. The CPN-UML Maintained that Oli was right to dissolve the House and call new elections,...

Social media platforms ‘killing people’ with misinformation, says Biden

17Jul

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Politics

Social media platforms ‘killing people’ with misinformation, says Biden

The U.S. President’s comments came each day after US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about The vaccines a threat to public health President Joe Biden has said that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on Their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines. Mr. Biden's comments came each day after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared misinformation about the Vaccines a threat to public health, and as US officials advised that deaths and high illness from the virus are almost Entirely preventable due to the vaccines. Mr. Biden, asked if he had a message for platforms like Facebook where false or misleading information about the Coronavirus vaccines has spread, told reporters, “They're killing people.” “The only pandemic we've is a...

10Jun

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Politics

“About my dead body”: Kapil Sibal del Congress at the Jitin Prasada style switch

New Delhi: As Congress processes the change of Jitin Prasada to BJP, a high profile output that once again exposes the deep crisis of the part, the focus of attention is in other members of the "G-23" or the Group of "dissident" leaders of 23 "dissidents". Who wrote A Sonia Gandhi asking for sweeping reforms. Kapil Sibal, a prominent member of this club, emphatically discarded a similar movement, declaring that it would be "on my dead body". However, the former minister of the Union, seized the opportunity to send a message to the heads of matches, which is time to listen. He also disapproved what he nicknamed "Prasada Ram Policy according to the personal gain" instead of ideology. "I do not want to comment on what the party leadership has done or not done, we have reached a stage in India...