Politics

Due to several political developments over the past few years, the EC wants the three political parties to respond on why their ‘national party’ status should not be taken away.

The Congress, in its official Twitter handle, said Dikshit, a lifelong congresswoman and as a three-time chief minister of Delhi, had she transformed the face of the national capital.

Bharat Lal, a 1988-batch IFS officer, who at present is additional secretary to the President, has been appointed as additional secretary in the Jal Shakti Ministry's drinking water and sanitation department.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has constituted a high level committee to investigate the Sonbhadra firing incident and asked to submit the report within 10 days.

The Supreme Court had said in its order that 15 rebel MLAs of the Congress-JD(S) government in Karnataka 'ought not' to be compelled to participate in the proceedings of the ongoing session of the state Assembly.

In a letter sent to Adityanath Priyanka said, "I appreciate the security arrangements made by the police and administration during my visit, but it causes a lot of inconvenience to the people and this troubles me."

The CPI, the BSP and the NCP are facing the prospects of losing their national party status after their dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal directed Arvind Kejriwal to appear before the court on August 7.

Chandrababu Naidu also questioned dual Standards of Jagan and said, 'Jagan has charged higher tariff for his two power plants in Karnataka and he is questioning our tariffs in AP.'

The members were participating in a discussion on the The National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which has already been passed by Lok Sabha earlier this week.

'The proposed amendments will lead to further promotion of ease of doing business, de-clogging of National Company Law Tribunal and Special Courts,' an official release said.

Swatantra Dev Singh also claimed that the party will sweep the zila panchayat polls, scheduled to be held next year.

The verbal duel between the two leaders started during a discussion on the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, when opposition members including Owaisi started interrupting BJP's Satyapal Singh.

West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh is of the opinion that BJP wants development of Gorkha people and they are sympathetic to the Gorkhaland statehood demand.

The SP-BSP alliance could bag just 15 of 80 seats in the state in the Lok Sabha elections this year, after which the BSP parted ways with the SP.

The chief minister sought time from the Speaker to move the trust vote in the House in the wake of the resignations of the 16 MLAs of the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) alliance.