(LiveMint) On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the Supreme Court is set to begin its final hearing in the Ayodhya dispute case on Tuesday. The case will be heard by a bench comprising chief justice Dipak Misra and justices Ashok Bhushan and Abdul Nazeer. The bench which has been specially constituted for the case, will be hearing a total of 13 appeals filed against the 2010 judgement of the Allahabad high court in four civil suits. The move comes at a time when the demolition of Babri Masjid completes 25 years…
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(FE) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as a social media savvy politician. Currently over 37.5 million people follow PM Modi on the micro-blogging site. It has been learnt that there has been a leap of 51 per cent in the following, according to Times of India report. This has come after PM Modi had pipped Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan to become the most followed Indian on social media site Twitter in 2016. PM Modi was active on Twitter since 2009. As per Twitter. Modi has used Twitter for campaigns like #MakeInIndia, #SwachBharat, #MannKiBaat and #SelfieWithDaughter to reach and connect with citizens. Government is encouraging people…
(AU) जदयू के बागी नेता शरद यादव और अली अनवर की राज्यसभा सदस्यता रद्द कर दी गई है। राज्यसभा सचिवालय ने सोमवार रात यह जानकारी दी। नीतीश कुमार के गुट ने उपराष्ट्रपति से इन दोनों नेताओं की सदस्यता खत्म करने की अपील की थी। सदस्यता रद्द होने पर अली अनवर ने कहा कि उन्हें इसकी जानकारी उस वक्त मिली जब वे राजकोट में एक मीटिंग में शामिल थे। उन्होंने कहा कि वे शरद यादव से बात करेंगे और फैसला साथ ही लिया जाएगा।
(TNIE) Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday, in an apparent dig at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on his unopposed nomination, said the one who claimed to bring internal democracy within the party was appointing himself as the party president. Pradhan added Rahul had been working as the party ‘president’ for the past three-four years under his mother’s influence ‘and this time it has just been made official.’ “For the last 10 years, Rahul ji had been saying he’d bring internal democracy in Congress. Now he is appointing himself as the party president. He had been the president for the…
(FE) The Centre’s Budget allocations for scheduled castes and tribes’ (SC&ST) welfare could leapfrog 40% if a “new arrangement” proposed by a high-level committee is put in place. The Ratan P Watal committee has recommended that, of the Centre’s scheme funds, SC/ST wellbeing be allocated not less than what corresponds to half of their numerical strength to the country’s total population, official sources told FE. The panel was asked to propose a new formula in this regard given that the practice of Five-year Plan allocations has been dispensed with. In the 12th Plan period (FY13-17), SC/ST welfare was supposed to…
(LiveMint) The Election Commission (EC) on Monday asked the chief electoral officer (CEO) of Gujarat to ensure that no political party, organization or candidate publishes any advertisement in the print media on 8 and 9 December unless pre-certification has already been obtained. The instruction comes ahead of Gujarat elections on 9 and 14 December. “I am directed to state that instances of advertisements of offending and misleading nature published in print media have been brought to the notice of the Commission in the past. Such advertisements in the last stage of the election vitiate the entire election process. The affected candidates…
टोल हमारी सुविधा के लिए होने चाहिए न की हमें परेशान करने के लिए| पर दिल्ली बदरपुर फ्लाईओवर का तो हाल बेहाल हैं, पीक टाइम पर अगर आप यहाँ के टोल में फस गए तो जाम से निकल पाना काफी दूभर हो जाता हैं, इसके साथ ही बहुमूल्य ईंधन की भी बर्बादी होती हैं | यह तो सब जानते हैं की एनसीआर स्थिति गुरुग्राम और नॉएडा टोल प्लाजा पर लोगों को भारी जाम से निज़ात दिलाने के लिए न्यायालाओं को खुद संज्ञान लेते हुए टोल ख़त्म करने का आदेश देना पड़ा| ऐसे में फरीदाबाद स्थिति टोल प्लाजा में लगनेवाले जाम से…
(PTI) Legendary Bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor, the romantic screen icon of ’70s and ’80s, died this evening. He was 79.He took his last breath at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital here.Actor Randhir Kapoor, son of veteran actor Raj Kapoor, confirmed the news. “Yes he has passed away. He had kidney problem since several years. He was on dialysis for several years,” Randhir Kapoor told PTI. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning, he said.”Shashi Kapoor expired at 5:20 pm on December 4 at Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai,” Dr Ram Narain fron Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital told PTI. Born on March 18,…
Today Rahul Gandhi has filed the nomination for the post of Congress President and set the stage for a contest against PM Narendra Modi ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Current Congress chief and his mother Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh are among the proposers for his candidature.
(BS) A host of party heavyweights will be present when Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi files his nomination for the party chief’s post at its headquarters here on Monday, with over 90 sets of nomination papers likely to be filed to support his candidature. Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh will be among proposers for the candidature of Rahul Gandhi for the party chief’s post. Accompanied by her mother Sonia Gandhi, Singh and other senior Congress leaders, Rahul Gandhi will file his nomination papers for the election to the top Congress post tomorrow, the last date for filing of nominations.