Politics

The government banned production, import and sale of e-cigarettes and similar products, citing health risk to people, especially youth, and an ordinance will be brought in to make it an offence.

Banerjee raised the issue of renaming West Bengal and said Modi has assured all help in the matter.

The Congress, however, accused Shah of "belittling" India's multi-party democracy and asked if the BJP chief is questioning the collective wisdom of the founding fathers of the Constitution.

Farooq's son, Omar Abdullah had promised during the Lok Sabha elections that if his government comes to power in the state, it would press for abolition of the PSA.

14 Cases of corruption had been lodged against Prasad, his son, Siva Ramakrishna, and daughter, Vijaya Lakshmi.

Before reaching the pact, Chavan had said they were in talks with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (of Prakash Ambedkar), Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana and Samajwadi Party for seat-sharing.

The chief minister’s statements come a day after his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar said NRC would be implemented in the state.

Devendra Fadnavis said so far, his yatra has covered over 3,000 km and reached out to over 100 constituencies (out of the total 288) in the state.

Bhosale joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Delhi in the presence of top saffron party leaders, including party president Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

BJP governments in Gujarat and Uttarakhand have already announced reduction in fines, which have risen steeply in the amended motor vehicles law.

Earlier, the Jagan govt has issued orders to paint the village secretariats, which will be established by October 2, in the YSR Congress Party colours.

After senior leader GT Deve Gowda, the comments made by JDS legislator from Gubbi constituency SR Srinivas on Thursday pointed to a mounting rebellion in the party.

Addressing a press meet in Kolkata, Dilip Ghosh iterated that the BJP will implement NRC in Bengal and throw out infiltrators. Banerjee had said earlier in the day that her government would never allow the exercise in the state.

The West Bengal government had also passed a resolution in the assembly recently, sending out a strong message to the BJP that the Trinamool Congress will go all out to oppose NRC.

Sitharaman had said in Chennai on Tuesday that the slowdown in the automobile sector was due to many factors like the change in mindset of millennials, who now prefer taxi aggregators like Ola and Uber.

Speaking during the programme, Adityanath said that every incident in life offers an opportunity to learn something. Whenever there is an opportunity to learn, it should be grabbed.