Despite the publicly known differences with some top leaders in the party, the BJP may have to accept Yeddyurappa as its Karnataka chief ministerial candidate when the party goes to stake claim.

The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was signed between India and Mauritius in 1982. Under this, any entity could apply for tax residency and pay zero capital gains tax. This became the principal reason why Mauritius emerged as a top channel for investments being routed into India.

This is the first time US President Donald Trump has claimed that Modi asked him to mediate on Kashmir. The two leaders met in Osaka on the sidelines of the G-20 summit on June 27.

Nearing midnight, with the stalemate still in place, Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar adjourned the House till 10 am Tuesday, with a deadline of 6 pm to complete the floor test.

Most manoeuvres will be performed in the first 25 days when the spacecraft will incrementally raise its orbit around the earth, and gain strength for the journey to the moon.

On July 5, the Supreme Court overturned the acquittal of the accused persons by the Gujarat High Court in 2011. The apex court upheld the trial court’s conviction of the 12 accused found guilty in 2007.

Chandrayaan-2 will spend the next 23 days circling around the earth, incrementally raising its orbit, before embarking on a seven-day journey to enter an orbit around the moon.

It has been nearly three weeks since Modi’s remarks, seen as condemnation of the assault and of Akash’s remarks justifying the same. It was expected that disciplinary action would follow against the MLA, who is the son of prominent BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya.

“Retirement is purely individual. A legendary cricketer like M S Dhoni...they know when to retire... what is the future course of (action), what is the roadmap we have to take, is in the hands of selection committee,” chief selector MSK Prasad said.

Sources in the ruling party said it is unlikely that the Bill will get cleared in the ongoing session. “The Bill is not on the agenda for consideration and passing in this session. It is unlikely that it will come up for passage in the ongoing session,” said a senior BJP leader.

The complaint alleged that CAM was legal adviser to the former board of IL&FS, which is facing criminal and legal action by government agencies, and continues to perform that role for the new board, too. 

Demanding return of ballot papers in general and Assembly elections that are conducted by the Election Commission, Mamata also questioned the outcome of the latest Lok Sabha elections, in which her party lost significant ground to the BJP.

At the state BJP executive meeting held at Goregaon in Mumbai, Fadnavis unveiled the poll roadmap stressing on micro-planning and exhorting the cadre to focus efforts across all 288 Assembly seats in Maharashtra.

The NIA alleges Yasin Malik got Rs 15 lakh from Watali on April 7, 2015, and that some of the money was used to fuel the unrest in the Valley after the killing of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in 2016.

While local women make up a sizeable section of Kerala’s construction labourer base, most do lowly jobs due to lack of training and experience. Kudumbashree aims to train women in all aspects of construction to guide them towards leadership positions.

Noted lawyer and former Janata Dal MP Jagdeep Dhankhar has been appointed as the Governor of West Bengal, replacing Keshari Nath Tripathi. Another senior BJP leader, Ramesh Bais, has been appointed Tripura Governor.

Sheila Dikshit loved the struggle, the challenge of transforming the city she grew up in her dharnas and protests. The workers of the party were full of fresh enthusiasm. Local leaders were cynical in their cautious response to her, writes Pawan Khera.

ISRO Chandrayaan 2 moon mission: After its original launch, Chandrayaan-2 was supposed to spend 17 days in Earth orbit, and another 28 days in lunar orbit, before the lander and rover modules were supposed to separate from the main spacecraft and prepare for landing on September 6.

Despite the accusations of BJP leaders buying their MLAs, the BJP maintained stoic silence in the House, refusing to create a situation where MLAs could be suspended for unruly behaviour ahead of the trust vote, thus reducing its numbers.

Police have so far arrested 29 people and are searching for 17 others. “The prime accused, Yagya Dutt, has been arrested. If needed, we will seek warrants against those missing,” said the SP.

With Delhi emerging as the epicentre of the anti-UPA establishment, Dikshit was the first to feel the shock-waves in the 2013 assembly elections before the Congress was drummed out of power in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. And in 2015, the Congress won none of Delhi’s 70 seats.

At least 65 people were killed in the 2013 riots, all these cases were registered and investigation began when the Akhilesh Yadav government was in power, the trial spanned both his and the current BJP government.

From the time Yagya Dutt and 10 others of his family bought 145 bighas of the disputed land from the wife and daughter of a retired Bihar cadre IAS officer (the daughter is also married to an IAS officer) in 2017, they had been trying to take possession of the land from the Gond tillers.

These revelations are at the heart of a scathing indictment of top agencies in a draft forensic report on alleged wrongdoing as IL&FS slipped into default.