Politics

TMC sources said Mamata Banerjee wants to rename West Bengal as it will help the state move up the alphabetical order in any official circular list prepared by the Centre.

A division bench of Justices SR Brahmbhatt and AP Thaker dismissed the petition after deciding to not interfere in the matter, which is pending before the Gujarat Assembly speaker.

Despite Speaker Vijay Kumar Choudhary's insistance that the House had dealt with the issue, RJD leader Lalit Yadav demanded Health Minister Mangal Pandey's resignation for children's deaths in Muzzafarpur due to AES.

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Gandhi was also urged by leaders of the Delhi unit to reconsider his decision to step down as party chief but the former did not show any signs of relenting, a senior Delhi Congress leader present in the meeting said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had condemned the killing of 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari but said it was wrong to insult the entire state over the incident.

While the Congress leader said that he would hold a massive protest against the 'hike', the SDMC mayor rubbished the claims saying that Sharma was spreading 'misinformation'.

Raising the matter during the Zero Hour, Saugata Roy said it was a "cold-blooded murder" of 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari as police held the youth, who had sustained severe head injuries, in custody for four days.

Parties seek to define un-ambiguously who would be in command if the president were to resign or is not in a position to oversee the day-to-day working of the organisation.

Kumaraswamy on June 14 had expanded his cabinet by inducting the two Independent MLAs in an apparent move to give stability to his 13-month old wobbly government.

The chief minister said the city's population has increased from 1.25 crore in 1994 to 2.25 crore in 2019, but its water share has not been augmented proportionally.

The JD(S) supremo's statement comes just two days after his son Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said that he is 'in pain' every day but has the responsibility of running the government smoothly.

Among the appointees are Congress MLAs Sudhakar K and Venkataramanaiah as chairpersons of State Pollution Control Board and Bangalore International Airport Area Planning Authority (BIAAPA) respectively.

Kailash Vijayvargiya's comments came in the backdrop of Banerjee on Tuesday declining an invitation to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting with the chiefs of political parties on simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls among other subjects and...

As happened in Modi's last term, the idea has run into opposition even before the issue is put up formally for discussion before political parties.

Maharashtra finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, who tabled the survey, also claimed an increase in the generation of jobs in the MSME sector in the state.