Politics

Kafeel Khan was accused of corruption and medical negligence, and was suspended after 63 children died in the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, Yogi Adityanath's home turf.

The former minister said the NCP will ensure defeat of those who have left the opposition party for power.

The code, which was derived to act against paid advertisements that violate norms set by the Election Commission, came into force on March 20 in the last Lok Sabha polls.

The 15 seats were vacated after the disqualification of the rebel Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs following their resignation from their respective parties.

The RJD, which heads the five-party coalition, on Tuesday gave party tickets to its candidates for Nathnagar, Simari Bakhtiarpur and Belhar besides telling its cadres that the nominee for Daraunda will be announced soon.

The case is based on a Mumbai Police FIR that had named Maharashtra ex-deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, and former chairmen and functionaries of the Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank.

Jitan Ram Manjhi, who had recently threatened to pull out of the five-party formation, said his party would field its candidate under all circumstances from the Nathdwara assembly seat in Bhagalpur.

Prasad said the thinking of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country's first home minister, was in the right direction on Jammu and Kashmir's accession to India.

On the issue of one common language in the country, Tharoor said the BJP's ideology of promoting Hindi, Hinduism and Hindustan is 'dangerous' for our country.

If the rebel MLAs get relief from the Supreme Court, it will mean a triangular battle among the BJP, Congress and JDS in the 17 constituencies in the state. If not, the BJP will have to face the rebels, along with the two opposition parties, as the disqua...

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Gadkari's comments came against the backdrop of the strike by transporters, taxis and auto-rickshaws in Delhi against the new law that provides for heavy penalties for traffic rule violations.

Congress secretary Pranav Jha said, 'We heard about the comment. I don't know in what context it was made. But, the party thinks that criminals do not get affected by the robes they don'.

Although introducing behavioural change towards encephalitis was successful, introducing the Swachh Bharat Mission and constructing 2.6 crore toilets as a means to stop diseases such as encephalitis was initially a challenge, according to Adityanath.

A United Nations report in June said India, currently with a population of about 1.37 billion, will overtake China, with 1.43 billion people right now, as the world’s most populous country around 2027.

Adityanath said that his government had not discriminated among beneficiaries, and if one were to look up statistics, Muslims had availed greater proportion of welfare schemes.