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“Banerjee should keep his views before us and not give statements outside,” BJP MP Jagdambika Pal said. BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, who leads the parliamentary committee on the proposed Waqf Amendment Bill, on Monday lashed out at panel member Kalyan Banerjee for making statements “outside.” “Kalyan Banerjee is a member of the JPC (joint parliamentary committee) and he should keep his views before us and not give statements outside,” Pal. He was apparently referring to a viral video of the Trinamool Congress leader in which the latter, speaking in Bengali, allegedly says that “any location where Muslims offer namaz would…

Mamata Banerjee expressed concern and said that there was an urgent need to rescue and rehabilitate persecuted Indians on this side of the border. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged the central government to seek the deployment of a peacekeeping mission by the Union Nations in Bangladesh to tackle the ongoing situation there. Banerjee also sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in bringing back the persecuted Indians from foreign soil. The Bengal CM further demanded that the Union minister of external affairs should inform the Parliament about India’s stance on the current situation in the neighbouring country.…

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and former Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani are the observers for Maharashtra legislature party meet. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday named two central observers for its legislature party meeting in Maharashtra to select its leader. The observers are Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and former Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani. The announcement comes amid ongoing suspense over Maharashtra’s next chief minister. Over a week after the BJP-led NDA, also called Mahayuti, secured a landslide win in the Maharashtra elections, the new government is yet to be sworn in. Devendra Fadnavis is expected to be…

The farmers had announced that they will march towards Delhi to demand a discussion on MSP. Farmers from Punjab, who announced that they will march towards Delhi to demand a discussion on Minimum Support Price (MSP), on Monday broke police barriers near the Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida and began moving towards Delhi. However, after holding talks with cops, the farmers left the protest site. Following this, police removed the barricades and saw the traffic movement’s return to normalcy. Joint CP Law and Order Noida, Shivhari Meena, “The farmers had announced the ‘Delhi Challo’ march today and we were continuously…

Five key takeaways for India from their practice tour match against Australian PM-XI in Canberra. India’s preparatory match against the Australian Prime Minister’s XI at the Manuka Oval in Canberra was something of a dress rehearsal for the touring team, with the performances and tactical decisions on show in the match providing a window into what shape fans might see in Adelaide next week. India managed to bowl out PM-XI for 240 runs, before putting up 257 runs in their allotted 46 overs to take home the honours from this tour match in confident fashion. With India finding plenty of…

The former Manipur Governor, then a Congress member, has narrated the episode in her just-released autobiography. Former Manipur Governor Najma Heptulla has recalled waiting for an entire hour to speak with then-Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who ultimately did not come on the line, while then-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee answered instantly. In 1999, after being elected to lead the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), an international body of national parliaments, Heptulla called the two leaders from Berlin. She recounts the episode in her autobiography, In Pursuit of Democracy: Beyond Party Lines. Calling the presidency a “historic first and a great honour” in…

The Kerala SDMA has advised people living in low-lying, landslide-prone, and other such areas to relocate to safer places.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday issued red alerts for four districts in Kerala for Monday, December 2, warning of isolated heavy rains in the state. The weather office has forecasted extremely heavy rainfall in the northern districts of Malappuram, Kozhikode, Wayanad and Kannur. IMD forecast light to moderate rainfall at a few places and expected isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall on Sunday. “Rainfall activity will increase with light to moderate rainfall at most places with heavy to very heavy…

The RSS chief said the population policy of India, decided around 1998 or 2002, says that the population growth rate should not be below 2.1. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday stressed the importance of family, saying that a society will perish if its population growth rate falls below 2.1. Speaking at the ‘Kathale Kul (clan) Sammelan’ in Nagpur, he said that ‘kutumb’ (family) is an integral part of society, with each family serving as a unit. “Decreasing population is a matter of concern because the Loksankhya Shastra says that if we go below 2.1, then that…

The then formed state Waqf board had a total of 11 member, of whom three were elected and rest eight were nominated. The Chandrababu Naidu-led Andhra Pradesh government has dissolved the state Waqf board nominated by the previous YSR Congress regime. The move comes in the backdrop of the ongoing uproar against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024. In an order dated November 30, the state government noted that AP State Waqf Board, formed by the YSRC regime, had been non-functional for a prolonged time (from March 2023). The then formed Waqf board had a total of 11 member, of whom…

Shinde also said that his government’s work in Maharashtra in the last 2.5 years will be written in “golden letters in history”. Maharashtra caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday clarified that he went to his native village in Satara to rest after a hectic election schedule and said he is ‘doing good now.’ The Shiv Sena leader had traveled to his native village on Friday after returning from a high-level meeting with BJP leaders in Delhi. Speculations were rife that Shinde was upset over the chief ministerial decision, however a Sena leader later dismissed the rumours and said the…