The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha will begin on Monday with the oath-taking ceremony of the newly elected MPs, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, followed by the election of the Lok Sabha Speaker on June 26. President Droupadi Murmu will address a joint sitting of both the Houses on June 27. This will be the first Lok Sabha session following the general elections conducted from April to June. In the 18th Lok Sabha, the NDA holds a majority with 293 seats, while the BJP has 240 seats, just shy of the 272 majority mark on its own. The…
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In a significant development, BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday re-announced her nephew Akash Anand as her successor. She also reinstated him on the post of the party’s national coordinator. Significantly, this comes after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has removed his nephew Akash Anand earlier in May — as BSP’s National Coordinator and her successor, while, terming him immature. Taking to social media platform X, Mayawati wrote, “I declared Akash Anand as the National Coordinator of BSP and my successor, but in the larger interest of the party and the movement, he is being separated from both these important…
The CBI filed an FIR on Sunday in connection with alleged irregularities in the medical entrance exam NEET-UG held on May 5 on a reference from the Union education ministry, amid countrywide protests and litigation by students for a probe into paper leak claims. Officials said the ministry alleged in a complaint, now part of the FIR, to the agency that “certain isolated incidents” occurred in a few states during the conduct of the examination. Giving top priority to the case, the CBI has formed special teams that are en route to Godhra and Patna, where cases of question paper…
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has moved the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court’s interim stay on a trial court’s order granting him bail in a money-laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.Sources said his lawyers are seeking an urgent hearing of the matter. The high court on Friday paused the release of the embattled chief minister after the trial court granted him bail on June 20. On June 20, Special Judge Niyay Bindu of Rouse Avenue Court had granted regular bail to Kejriwal and declined the ED’s plea to keep the bail order in abeyance for 48 hours.…
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday said the 53rd GST Council Meeting has recommended a uniform GST rate of 12 per cent on all milk cans. It also recommended a uniform GST rate of 12 per cent on all carton boxes, and clarified that all types of sprinklers, including fire water sprinklers, will attract 12 per cent GST. The Council also recommended to prescribe 12% GST on all solar cookers whether it has single or dual energy source. Meanwhile, services provided by the Indian Railways such as the sale of platform tickets, facility of retiring rooms, waiting rooms, cloakroom services, battery…
The Centre on Saturday ordered a CBI investigation into the allegations of malpractices and paper leak in the conduct of NEET-UG exam for the admission to medical courses. The government’s move comes over a week after the controversy of alleged paper leak erupted, triggering protests by the students and political parties. This comes days after the CBI, on June 20, registered an FIR into the UGC-NET paper leak case against unidentified persons on a reference from the Union Education Ministry. In a major action amid the paper leak row, the Centre sacked Subodh Kumar Singh as the director general of the exam body National…
The International Press Institute (IPI) global network is deeply alarmed by the deterioration of press freedom in Pakistan, marked by a recent wave of violence against the press along with the introduction of legislative and other measures that impose harsh restrictions on press freedom and online expression. It call on the government to take swift and concrete action to step up protections for journalists and to ensure a legal and regulatory environment that fosters freedom of the press and access to information, in line with international human rights standards and obligations. Over the course of May, four Pakistani journalists were killed, with…
“Compressed biogas (CBG) offers a multitude of benefits for India: it can help enhance waste management, promote local clean energy solutions, and bring down our dependence on imported compressed natural gas (CNG). And Uttar Pradesh – especially its western districts of Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Bulandshahar and Aligarh — leads the nation in the potential to generate compressed biogas: it accounts for a sizable 24 per cent of the country’s total potential”: said researchers from New Delhi-based think tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in Muzaffarnagar. They were speaking at a one-day symposium on CBG in western Uttar Pradesh;…
The telecom sector’s revenue for FY24 reached US$ 28.70 billion (Rs. 2,39,900 crore), an 87% increase from the lowest point of FY19, shortly after Reliance Jio’s launch, and about 40% higher than the historical highs of FY16, before Jio began commercial operations, according to CLSA. Jio and Airtel, continuing to gain subscribers at the expense of Vodafone Idea, collectively controlled 78% of sectoral revenue, projected to rise to 83% by FY26. Vodafone Idea’s revenue market share (RMS) dropped by 130 basis points in FY24 to 15.7%, with revenue flat at US$ 4.51 billion (Rs. 37,700 crore). In contrast, Bharti Airtel’s…
India and Bangladesh, on Saturday, firmed up a futuristic vision to expand cooperation in several new areas and inked a raft of agreements, including to boost ties in the maritime sphere and blue economy. The pacts were finalised at the wide-ranging talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his visiting Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. Modi said India and Bangladesh will begin technical-level talks for the renewal of the 1996 Ganga water treaty. He added an Indian technical team will visit Bangladesh soon for the conservation and management of the Teesta River. Addressing a joint presser after bilateral talks with his Bangladesh…