J&K is the only state that has not yet rolled out the new tax regime. The J-K government has convened a special session of the assembly on July 4 to discuss and extend the constitutional amendment 101 to the state to facilitate the implementation of GST.
If Meira Kumar’s name had come up before Kovind or Gopal Gandhi’s name had been decided, then JD(U) would have agreed with the rest of the joint Opposition on that name.
“We have common enemies, problems and threats, those have to be combated and fought together. Our common enemy is poverty and together we have to fight that. Our common threats which of course are also a global threat are terrorism and fundamentalism," Sonowal said.
In the two years as Delhi Chief Minister, the AAP chief has attended the weddings of four of his MLAs, the last one being that of Burari MLA Sanjeev Jha the previous weekend.
Meanwhile, reports are coming in of harassment of people from the hills and Sikkim in towns such as Siliguri, which has an overwhelming population of Bengali-speaking people, and of people even leaving.
BJP leaders from Goa, including Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, had received Shah Saturday and escorted him to a makeshift podium where he spoke for 15 minutes praising GST, before the makeshift arrangements were packed up.
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Jain, a 31-year-old Delhi-based architect, is on a mission: spread awareness about the environmental burden that disposable sanitary napkins impose, and the alternatives.
According to the samiti, 45 Dalits, including eight women, boarded Sabarmati Express from Ahmedabad Saturday night for Lucknow. The UP police said 41 members of the group were detained at Jhansi.
The agency had moved an application for a non-bailable warrant against Shah on June 9 and the court issued it on June 22. The ED called Shah seven times for questioning but he did not turn up on one pretext or the other.
The chief minister was addressing a Jan Swabhiman Rally organised by the Apna Dal (S) in Varanasi to mark the birth anniversary of Apna Dal founder Sonelal Patel.
Nath said no complaint had been lodged by anybody regarding alleged illegal transportation of cattle. “No one has also lodged any complaint of assault,” the commissioner said.
Ataharuddin, a resident of Karneji village in Vaishali, told The Indian Express that on June 28, he was travelling by car with his aged parents and wife to Samastipur district via Muzaffarpur when he encountered the Bajrang Dal activists.
On Sunday, the BJP was at pains to underline that Mahato was “a dedicated party worker”, with “nothing to do with the Bajrang Dal or Gau Raksha Samiti”. They also accused police of failing to check “illegal slaughter” in the area.
Devendra Fadnavis noted that prohibition of cow slaughter was part of the Constitution under Article 48, adding that looking after cows’ welfare was important for a better future.
Applications were invited for seven schemes (five Centrally sponsored and two state-sponsored) between July and November 2016, and “a total of 66,882 applications received”, says the DDC report.
Agency sources point out that the probe against stone-pelters is far easier compared to that of terror funding against separatists, where fund trails have to be established end to end, beginning from Pakistan.
According to the police, five persons were killed, allegedly by residents of Apta village last Monday when they tried to escape after opening fire at the house of the village pradhan (village head).
A state minister for welfare of backwards classes, Rajbhar is national president of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), an ally of BJP, and MLA from Zahoorabad in Ghazipur.
During the visit, the Prime Minister will also meet 10-year-old Moshe and his grandparents, and part-time nanny Sandra, who had saved the boy during the 26/11 attacks on Chabad House in Mumbai.
The woman is an alleged gang rape survivor and was attacked with acid in the state capital for the fourth time in eight years, police said Sunday.
The JD(U) was the first to break ranks with the Opposition and openly declare its support for the NDA’s presidential candidate, Ram Nath Kovind, the former Bihar governor.
Incidents of firing across the LoC have risen steadily since 2012, when 79 were registered, to 236 in 2013, 226 in 2014, and 279 in 2015, according to data gathered by the J&K government.
Amit Jogi told The Indian Express said that they would challenge the report in the high court. He said the committee did not follow the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court, and that it was a “chief minister-powered committee”.