Friday, 19 April 2024
Friday, 19 April 2024
In a show of opposition unity, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah attended the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah as the Karnataka Chief Minister on Saturday.
Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was not present during the ceremony at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, where D K Shivakumar took oath as Deputy Chief Minister and eight MLAs as Cabinet Ministers.
"I have been invited by the Congress president (Mallikarjun Kharge). It (Karnataka Assembly poll) was an important election. Also, I have an old friendship with him (Siddaramaiah). I will be going tomorrow," Nitish Kumar told reporters in Darbhanga on Friday.
AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the RBI's announcement on the withdrawal of Rs 2,000 currency notes from circulation, terming it as another "note bandi" to trouble the people.
"Modi has issued another new order. Whenever he goes to Japan, he will issue a 'note bandi' notification and go," says the AICC President.
On the other hand, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP-led central government saying, “another whimsical and Tughlaqi demonetisation drama”.
Reacting to the development, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi posed five questions to Modi.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra said, "No civilised nation puts its people under constant fear of cash turning to toilet paper."
The Centre has moved the Supreme Court seeking a review of its May 11 verdict which held the Delhi government has legislative and executive powers over services except for public order, police and land, contending the judgement ignores the fact that the functioning of the government in the capital "affects the nation as a whole".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday held bilateral talks here, in their first in-person meeting after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February last year.
"PM @narendramodi held talks with President @ZelenskyyUa during the G-7 Summit in Hiroshima," the prime minister's office tweeted.
CBI officers questioned TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, who appeared before them Saturday as part of the agency's probe into the school jobs scam, for more than six hours.
"Abhishek Banerjee and TMC have always cooperated with the CBI and ED probe. But the saffron camp is using central agencies to harass us," TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.
The Indo-Pacific region is an "engine" of global trade, innovation and development and its success and security are important for the whole world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.
Modi said this in his opening remarks at the Quad summit in Hiroshima that was also joined by US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese.
Capital markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday proposed to reduce the time taken for the listing of shares on stock exchanges after the closure of initial public offerings (IPOs) to three days from six days at present.
"Issuers will have faster access to the capital raised thereby enhancing the ease of doing business and the investors will have opportunity for having early credit and liquidity of their investment", Sebi said in its consultation paper.
The CBI on Saturday quizzed former Mumbai NCB chief Sameer Wankhede for more than five hours in a case in which he is accused of demanding a Rs 25 crore bribe from superstar Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan in the Cordelia cruise 'drug bust' case, an official said.
Talking to media persons while entering the agency office, Wankhede just said "Satyamev Jayate" (truth alone triumphs). He didn't speak to media persons while leaving the office.
The 'Kerala Story' continued to remain absent from Bengal’s movie halls for a second day in a row on Saturday as theatre-owners remained aloof from screening the controversial film.
The Supreme Court had overturned a West Bengal government ban on the movie on Thursday and its distributors had tried to interest theatre owners in picking it up, without much success till now.
Three more cheetahs were released into the wild at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh, taking the count to six, an official said on Saturday.
Three cheetahs - two males named Agni and Vayu and one female Gamini - were released into the wild at the KNP on Friday. All three of them had been brought to India from South Africa, J S Chouhan, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) told PTI.
