February 20, 2024

After the initial decision in 2019 to provide air courier services to personnel posted in Jammu & Kashmir, the MHA extended the facility in all sectors to help them cut down on travel time.

Nath's confidant dismissed reports of the veteran Congress leader contemplating a switch to the BJP and added that his son Nakul will contest the 2024 polls as the party's candidate from Chhindwara.

However, markets and educational institutes remained open and they were not affected.

The Congress confirmed the notices of summons were issued to MLA Jakir Hussain Sikdar and Guwahati city Congress general secretary Ramen Kumar Sarma.

Justice C Hari Shankar noted that the varsity's direction to a candidate to find himself a supervisor and obtain consent from him or her to supervise, "was in the teeth of Ordinance 6.1 and is, consequently, illegal."

Malviya, a four-time MLA, who was appointed a member of the Congress Working Committee last year, cited the Congress' refusal to attend the Ram temple ceremony in Ayodhya as the prime reason for his defection.

"In 2019 he (Rahul Gandhi) left Amethi, today Amethi has left him. If he is confident, then without going to Wayanad let him fight from Amethi alone," said Irani while talking to media persons.

Earlier on Monday, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, which spearheaded the 2020-21 stir, rejected the govt proposal, saying it seeks to "divert and dilute" the farmers' demand for MSP and they will accept nothing less than the 'C-2 plus 50%' formula

Kejriwal refused to depose before the federal agency for the sixth time on Monday with the Aam Aadmi Party saying the ED should wait for the court's decision.

SC issues notice to concerned respondents on Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah's plea against HC order rejecting his plea seeking quashing of proceedings against him in 2022 protest matter.

"Such routine arrest without application of mind and due regard to the law amounts to an abuse of power," the court said.

The demands included statehood, increasing Lok Sabha seats from one to two and bringing the region under the sixth schedule of the Constitution to accord special status on par with the north eastern states.

The ECI's order giving party name 'Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar' to Sharad Pawar's group will continue till further orders, the SC said.

The Samajwadi Party had earlier offered 11 seats to the grand old party, while the Congress' state unit demanded a higher allocation.

Earlier on Monday, farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said farmers will hold a discussion on the Centre's proposal but they will not budge from their demand for a law guaranteeing MSP.