Politics

The JD(U) and the BJP are running a coalition government in Bihar since 2005, barring around a year half when the former was in power with the RJD and the Congress in the state.

The former CM is likely to be shifted on Thursday as the Jammu and Kashmir administration plans to use the Hari Nivas to accommodate a ministerial delegation from the Centre visiting the Valley soon, they said.

Manoj Tiwari said that the party has not declared the Chief Minister candidate and this will be decided after the party wins the Assembly elections.

The case includes non-bailable sections of causing damage, criminal intimidation, as well as assaulting a public servant from discharging duty, said a source at the Hare Street Police station where it was registered on Monday.

As soon as the governor began his address at the one-day special session, opposition members stood up and protested against the new citizenship law and deaths of five persons in police firing during anti-CAA protests in the state last month.

In a tweet, senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said Modi should rename Victoria Memorial as Rani Jhansi Smarak Mahal.

The fraud at PMC Bank came to light in September last year after the Reserve Bank of India discovered that the bank had allegedly created fictitious accounts to hide over ₹6,700 crore.

The minister, Raghuraj Singh, was addressing a pro-citizenship law rally in Aligarh where deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was also in attendance.

The high-stakes tussle for power in the national capital is also being hotly contested in the virtual world with parties' social media warriors battle-ready with their 'weapons' of parodies, memes and hashtags.

Speaking at the Belur Math, Narendra Modi reiterated that the CAA is not meant to snatch anyone’s right but to give citizenship to 'persecuted' religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

As promised by the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav handed over cheques worth Rs 5 lakh each to the families of the youth who were killed when violence broke out in Firozabad during the anti-CAA protests.

Suwasara MLA Hardeep Singh Dang, who first supported CAA, later claimed his statement was in the context of CAA and the NRC separately, adding he had not spoken in favour of the CAA.

The Congress chief said thousands of young men and women, especially students, have realised the "grave harm" that implementation of the new Citizenship law will cause.

On the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Ram Madhav claimed normalcy was returning to the union territory, with internet being restored 'to a great extent' and local leaders in detention being released.

Those who have resigned from the party are former Rafiabad MLA Yawar Mir, Muntazir Mohiuddin and former president of the party's youth wing Showkat Gayoor.

He demanded that the entire team in J&K that designed and executed "the plan" be changed and a new set of administrators who respect the Constitution be appointed.