The Centre has suspended with immediate effect the Free Movement Regime (FMR) between India and Myanmar. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the external affairs ministry has also started the process to scrap FMR. Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted, “It is Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji’s resolve to secure our borders. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) between India and Myanmar be scrapped to ensure the internal security of the country and to maintain the demographic structure of India’s North Eastern States bordering Myanmar.” Shah added that the ministry of external affairs…
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The BJP on Thursday rubbished as “blatant lie” Rahul Gandhi’s claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi got his caste included in the list of Other Backward Classes in Gujarat when he was the state’s chief minister. “This is a blatant lie. PM Narendra Modi’s caste was notified as an OBC on Oct 27, 1999, a full two years before he became the Chief Minister of Gujarat,” BJP IT department head Amit Malviya posted on X and shared the weblink of the official notification. “The entire Nehru-Gandhi family, starting from Jawaharlal Nehru to Rahul Gandhi, have been against OBCs,” he said. In…
* Nirmala Sitharaman tables White Paper Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharman presented a copy of the ‘White Paper on the Indian economy’ in Lok Sabha. Earlier, the supplementary list of business of the House on Thursday mentioned that the minister will lay a copy of the White Paper. The budget session started with the address by President Droupadi Murmu to the joint sitting of two Houses on January 31. This is the last session of the current Lok Sabha before the general elections expected to be held in April-May this year. The government had announced in the union budget presented on…
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Forbidden Stories announced on Thursday a new partnership to strengthen their ability to assist journalists worldwide. The partnership will see the two nonprofits share journalists’ requests for financial and non-financial support, including security assistance, with each other, as well as information about journalists who have been killed, jailed, or threatened. CPJ provides comprehensive, life-saving support to journalists and media workers around the world, including safety consultations, up-to-date security information, and rapid response assistance to those who are injured, forced to flee, or imprisoned for their work. Forbidden Stories’ “SafeBox Network” allows journalists at risk to share…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, saying the grand old party’s thoughts have become ‘outdated’. The PM accused Congress of creating narratives to split the country by trying to create a north-south divide. Congress which ceded large chunks of country’s land to the enemy is now giving sermons to us on internal security, he added. Modi said the Congress does not have guarantee of its leaders and policies but is questioning Modi’s guarantees. He added that Congress was aware of problems facing the country but did nothing to resolve them. “We have come out from…
Veteran leader Sharad Pawar’s party was allotted a new name—Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar—by the Election Commission on Wednesday, a day after it ruled that the faction led by his nephew Ajit Pawar is the ‘real NCP’. The EC had asked the Pawar camp to choose a name and symbol in view of the upcoming Rajya Sabha election and convey it to the commission by 3 pm on Wednesday. The group suggested three names—Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadrao Pawar and Nationalist Congress Party-Sharad Pawar—to the poll body. They had also sought ‘banyan tree’ as the election symbol. The commission…
In a significant move, the Uttarakhand Assembly passed the historic Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill on Wednesday. The bill was passed by voice vote amid chants of “Jai Shri Ram” in the Assembly. Earlier on Tuesday, the Uttarakhand government tabled the bill in the Assembly — the first such move in any state since Independence. The bill was presented by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami with an aim to establish uniform marriage, divorce, land, property, and inheritance laws for all citizens irrespective of their religion. Earlier in the day, detailed discussions were held on the bill. Speaking in the Assembly,…
A Delhi court on Wednesday summoned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on February 17 on a complaint filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy. The ED had on February 3 filed a fresh complaint against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader for the non-compliance of its summons. It argued that Kejriwal is a public servant, and he cannot ignore the orders of a government agency. “Cognisance of the complaint has been taken, and a summons is being issued to him to appear on February 17,” Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Divya Malhotra…
As many as 11 persons got killed and over 40 persons have suffered injuries as blast occurred at a firecrackers manufacturing unit in Madhya Pradesh’s Harda town. Nearly 60 houses in the vicinity of the factory also got destroyed in the blast. According to officials, a number of people were also feared trapped in and around the unit. Some videos of the incident surfaced on social media showing the fire with intermittent explosions taking place at the site and people running to save themselves. Harda Collector Rishi Garg said, “An explosion took place in a firecracker factory today morning. Rescue…
Election Commission of India on Tuesday ruled in favour of the faction led by Ajit Pawar in connection with the dispute in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) name and symbol, in a massive setback for Sharad Pawar months ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The decision was made after more than 10 hearings spread over more than 6 months. Election Commission of India provided a one-time option to claim a name for its new political formation and provide three preferences to the Commission. The concession is to be utilised by 3 pm on February 7, 2024. Ajit Pawar got Nationalist Congress…