Telangana Chief Minister Okay Chandrashekar Rao has stated he would boycott Sunday’s Niti Aayog assembly to protest “the Centre’s attitude”, lamented that “imperative” federalism had changed cooperative federalism, and objected to PM Narendra Modi “dismissing welfare schemes as freebies”. Accusing the Centre of failing to fulfil its guarantees, Rao puzzled what the Niti Aayog had achieved previously eight years. “It appears that the NDA government is not bothered about the Niti Aayog and there is no point in attending the meeting,” he stated.
Per week after the Delhi authorities introduced its choice to scrap its new liquor coverage, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia stated he has written to the CBI requesting a probe into what he stated was a sudden change in former lieutenant governor Anil Baijal’s choice to open retailers in unauthorised colonies. The change within the L-G’s choice brought about “thousands of crores of losses” to the Delhi authorities, Sisodia stated at a press convention in the present day. Sisodia’s letter comes on a day Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena suspended and initiated disciplinary proceedings in opposition to former excise commissioner Arava Gopi Krishna (IAS officer) and deputy commissioner Anand Tiwari over their alleged involvement within the corruption within the formulation and implementation of Delhi Excise Policy 2021-22.
As a number of elements of the nation report a rising pattern in Covid-19 instances, the Central authorities has requested Delhi and 6 different states to ramp up testing, vaccination and promote Covid-appropriate behaviour. In a letter to Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan stated the upcoming festivals and mass congregations could probably improve the transmission of the virus, including that the states should intently monitor the districts reporting larger instances, positivity charges and clusters to forestall additional unfold of an infection.
On Day 9 of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, India’s Avinash Sable gained silver medal in males’s 3000m steeplechase occasion, whereas Priyanka Goswami scripted historical past as she grew to become the primary Indian lady to win a medal in race stroll with a silver in 10,000m occasion. Meanwhile, the Indian girls’s cricket group beat England to achieve the finals. Follow our dwell protection right here.
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Congress MP A Revanth Reddy’s function because the Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president has come beneath intense scrutiny with a revolt breaking out in opposition to his management within the state Congress. Barely three days after the resignation of Munugode MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy from the Congress, the AICC’s spokesperson Dr Dasoju Sravan introduced his choice to stop the occasion Friday night time. He additionally blamed Revanth Reddy for his exit from the grand previous occasion which has been lurching from one disaster to a different in Telangana forward of the state Assembly elections due subsequent 12 months. Sreenivas Janyala experiences.
This Parliament session is proving to be simply what the physician ordered for Raghav Chadha, a Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab. On Friday, Chadha launched a Private Member’s Bill in search of a laws guaranteeing MSP. Before that, Chadha met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to hunt withdrawal of 12% GST on guesthouses close to the Golden Temple. Subsequently, on Thursday, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs rolled again the order. All these measures are anticipated to assist Chadha who has been on the centre of a row since July when the Bhagwant Singh Mann authorities constituted a brief committee to advise it and anointed him its chairman. While it stays to be seen if Chadha may reverse the dangerous news coming his manner with the Bill on MSP, it’s a good situation to put his bets on.
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The BJP-led central authorities’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ marketing campaign has revived discussions across the relationship of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP’s ideological mentor, with the nationwide flag. While Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on August 3 questioned why did “the RSS not hoist the Tricolour at its headquarters for 52 years”, the BJP hit again, saying Independence Day celebrations “should not be politicised”. What is the newest controversy about, why didn’t the RSS hoist the Tricolour at its Nagpur headquarters for 50 years, and why had MS Golwalkar, the second RSS Sarsanghchalak, referred to as the adoption of the Tricolour “just a case of drifting and imitating”? We clarify.
Twitter’s high-stakes authorized battle in opposition to a number of the Indian authorities’s content material blocking orders is now beneath highlight in one other courtroom case — that of the corporate’s lawsuit in opposition to Tesla CEO Elon Musk over retracting his $44 billion bid to purchase the social media big. Musk has accused Twitter of hiding its lawsuit in India from him and that its actions may jeopardise its enterprise within the nation. What is Twitter’s authorized case in India? Read right here.
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