Exposing the division within the Pawar family and the party over forming an alliance with the Shiv Sena, Ajit Pawar, who was then the legislature party leader, is learnt to have openly backed the idea of aligning with the BJP at the meeting chaired by Sharad Pawar.

A Bench of Justices N V Ramana, Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna will hear the plea on Sunday at 11.30 am.

Governor Koshyari had behaved like a “hitman on the Constitution of India at the instance of a Home Minister who considers the Constitution as his captive instrument,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said.

In an early morning ceremony, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari swore in Fadnavis as CM and Ajit as Deputy CM.

The HC has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction over the slow progress of the investigation. The first Devendra Fadnavis government had started the probe after being sharply nudged by the HC after about a year of coming to power in 2014.

The youngest of Bal Thackeray’s three children, Uddhav was an unlikely candidate to helm the Shiv Sena.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar announces consensus on Shiv Sena chief as Maharashtra Chief Minister; Uddhav Thackeray says other issues being sorted out.

Only one of the 11 fundamental duties mentioned under Article 51A was inducted during the Vajpayee government as the 86th Constitution Amendment in 2002 about educational opportunities for children.

The panel, set up by the HRD Ministry on November 16 to “recommend ways to restore normal functioning in JNU”, held its most recent meeting Friday. Former UGC chairman V S Chauhan, AICTE chairman Anil Sahasrabudhe and UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain met students on the university campus.

The HRD Ministry is learnt to have prepared a proposal this week, and a Cabinet note will be prepared once the plan gets the minister’s stamp of approval. In all likelihood, the institute will be located in Hyderabad.

Anjali Bharadwaj of the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information said this shows the “total lack of political will to open the Electoral Bond Scheme to public scrutiny and subject it to a robust process of deliberation”.

The Delhi government has rejected the findings of the BIS report and conducted tests at nine of the 11 locations again — samples were not collected from the minister’s house, and a house that was locked.

According to the Bill, a couple would be allowed to have more than two children only if twins or triplets are born after the first child. Then too, they would have to seek the district authority’s permission during pregnancy.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Dr Meij, from the Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, said, “The fact that this is an abandoned pup makes no difference to me. Every dog should get the care it deserves, whenever possible.”

The accused have been arrested on charges of murder, and more charges are likely to be added, the officer said.

The Congress Working Committee met Thursday morning at party chief Sonia Gandhi’s residence and gave the green signal for an alliance with the NCP and the ideologically incompatible Shiv Sena.

A closer examination of the data for the last six years, however, shows that ONGC’s expenditure on exploratory wells has almost halved from Rs 11,687 crore in the year ended March 2014 to Rs 6,016 crore in the year ended March 2019.

NDA members in many committees are using the rule book to stonewall scrutiny on issues that may raise uncomfortable questions for the government.

The bench of Justices N V Ramana, R Subhash Reddy and B R Gavai, hearing petitions challenging the restrictions, told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared for J&K, that he must answer all questions so that the impression does not go out that the government was not serious about the case.

At one of the rallies, he asked the crowd: “Should the Ram temple be built in Ayodhya or not? Tell me, mothers and sisters. Every person in this country wants a Ram temple. But the Congress stalled the case.” It was met with cheers of “Jai Shri Ram”.

The JUH working committee that met on Thursday adopted a resolution describing the judgment as “the darkest spot in the history of free India” but said it wouldn’t file a review petition as there was “possibility of further damage”.

Divyansh Singh Panwar and Manu Bhaker, Elavenil Valarivan scripted history for India and took the country to the top of the overall medals tally Thursday, surpassing hosts China.

Speaking to reporters after a marathon meeting of Congress and NCP leaders at Pawar’s residence, NCP leader Nawab Malik said: “A stable government cannot be formed in Maharashtra without the NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena coming together. We will form the government soon. We discussed all those aspects.”

Speaking to The Indian Express earlier this week, Bhat provided the first detailed account of the convention centre-turned sub-jail, where politicians, arrested following the government’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu & Kashmir under Article 370, were lodged.