It includes farmer representatives, state government representatives and central government officials
With this policy, the RBI seems to have frontloaded the bulk of its interest rate hikes. Going forward, the pace of rate hikes may be calibrated and slow
The Congress general secretary was subsequently put in a vehicle forcibly by police and taken away. Earlier in the day, wearing black clothes, Congress MPs, including former party chief Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest in the Parliament House complex and took out a march towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
The protesting MPs of the opposition party raised slogans against the government demanding that the GST hike on essential items be withdrawn, with Sonia Gandhi standing with the women MPs of the party, holding a banner, outside gate number 1 of Parliament.
Shortly after Gandhi's press conference here, former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress leader made "shameful and irresponsible" comments and noted that it was his grandmother and then prime minister Indira Gandhi who had suspended people's democratic rights by imposing Emergency.
All are agreed that a specialised agency is needed to manage the judiciary’s administrative functions. The union finance ministry said in 2019 that an “Indian Courts and Tribunal Service” is needed
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters here ahead of the nationwide protest by the Congress, Gandhi said the sole agenda of the government is that people's issues such as price rise, unemployment and violence in society must not be raised.
T S Singh Deo and former Union minister Milind Deora have been appointed as Congress's observers for the Gujarat elections, expected to be held in December.
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Raising the issue during the Question Hour amid uproar by Opposition members over the alleged misuse of agencies by the government to target leaders, Mallikarjun Kharge asked whether it was fair on the part of the probe agency to summon him at a time when Parliament was in session.
While workers from these two parties have been staging protests on the issue, Gujarat education minister and state government spokesperson Jitu Vaghani hit back saying GST on entry passes of any cultural event, including commercial garba events, have been in place since 2017 and each state, including those ruled by the Congress, had given approval for it.
It is critical to remain persistently focused on achieving inter-generational upward social and economic mobility and that is where the lens should be. Not on giveaways that follow an electoral calendar
Amit Shah also took an apparent swipe at the earlier UPA governnment at the Centre, alleging there was "policy paralysis" then, while a number of scams also happened.
Kuldeep Bishnoi, son of former chief minister Bhajan Lal, has been an MLA for four terms and MP for two terms while his wife is also an ex-MLA. Khattar welcomed him into the party at a ceremony at the BJP headquarters and said his induction will help the organisation.
Rahul Gandhi's reaction came a day after the ED sealed the office of Young Indian in Herald House in the national capital, and the Delhi police briefly barricaded his residence and the party office here.
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said it would take a call by Monday on referring the matters related to the recent Maharashtra political crisis to a constitution bench.
As the war of words rage around Nancy Pelosi’s visit, it would be more about Taiwan vs China than China vs the US in the short term, unless posturing gets out of control
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Giving promoters a permanent seat on the company's board can be detrimental to investor interest. When the companies' performance deteriorates, promoters hang on to their seats making it harder for investors to effect management change, and arrest value destruction
Speculation whether China would attack Taiwan sidesteps the question of what India’s own thinking is about security issues beyond its immediate neighbourhood, and especially its plans and options if China were indeed to attack Taiwan
The TMC chief, who is expected to land by this afternoon, will hold a meeting in the evening with her party MPs who have been in the forefront of protests against the government in the ongoing Parliament session.
For world politicians, the fear of a Chinese backlash for dealing with Taiwan has reduced. But businessmen fear disruption in the supplies of semiconductors from Taiwan and hundreds of other goods from China if a conflict breaks out
Any change in the status quo resulting from Nancy Pelosi’s visit can sabotage the existing India-Taiwan bilateral agreements and Free Trade Area negotiations which began in 2021