Moving the Bill for consideration and passage, Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that the G RAM G Bill will ensure all-around development of villages and make them poverty-free, fuelling their growth journey.
Congress said it will expose the “vendetta politics” against its top leadership as it demanded that PM Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah resign.
Khan will be the guest at Express Adda in Mumbai on Thursday, where he will be in conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express Group, and Devendra Pandey, Deputy Associate Editor, The Indian Express.
“We welcome the change,” he said, “but we also want to make a statement here with regard to Andhra Pradesh.” Highlighting economic challenges faced by the state, TDP MP said the state has been in revenue deficit since 2014 after the “unscientific bifurcation”.
“The Committee urges Indian Railways to… identify commodities with low rail modal share but high growth potential, assess their specific logistical requirements and address operational bottlenecks that hinder their movement by rail,” it said.
The House rejected the demand of the Opposition to send the Bill to a parliamentary panel. The opposition members also objected to the use of Hindi and English words in the Bill’s name.
The committee, headed by JD(U) MP Sanjay Kumar Jha, was said to have asked the DGCA how it could not anticipate mass cancellation of flights and not prepare for such an eventuality.
According to her, having fewer elections would reduce uncertainty and boost private investment. Reduction in frequency of polls could improve efficiency and composition of government expenditure as well, she maintained.
Jean Drèze suggests the proposed 60-day pause in the scheme during the peak agricultural seasons of sowing and harvesting is due to ‘pressure from some farmer lobbies’.
During the remand hearing before the Judicial Magistrate First Class court in Mapusa, the counsel for the Luthra brothers sought permission for a mattress for the accused in police custody, citing some “medical concerns”.
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Bangladesh media had reported that a group of protesters under the banner of “July Oikya” were stopped by Dhaka’s police while marching towards the Indian High Commission on Wednesday afternoon.
The officers were sent to Manipur on the directions of the Ministry of Home Affairs, with their services placed at the disposal of the CBI for investigations into FIRs related to the ethnic violence in the state.
During the debate on the SHANTI Bill, Manish Tewari reminded the Treasury benches that the BJP had moved a no-confidence motion against the government over the India-US civil nuclear deal.
