Politics

Terming the new policy as "pro-industry", Sunder Sham Arora said it would give one-time settlement opportunity to sick industries to restart their ventures as the new policy will be launched after enormous improvements.

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal had allegedly sought "evidence" of the surgical strikes the Army conducted on terrorist launchpads on September 29, 2016 in response to the militant attack on its base in Uri earlier that month.

Addressing a rally in Purulia, Amit Shah said that if people of Bengal "want to stop the illegal immigration from Bangladesh then they have to dethrone the Mamata-led TMC government."

PM Modi also inaugurated the two-day 'Kabir Mahotsav' organised by the Union Ministry of Culture and laid the foundation stone of a research institute.

Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala accused the government of meting out step-motherly treatment to the armed forces by not providing them with state-of-the-art equipment and slashing their budgetary allocation.

On the issue of fewer tax slabs, Sisodia said there is a problem in the very foundation of GST. He said GST should have been fixed at a particular rate instead of various slabs of 5, 12, 18 and 28 per cent plus cess.

Anil Jain said there was no question of horse-trading in the state.

Mukherjee was invited by the RSS to address its Shiksha Varg on June 7 and attend a parade by the Sangh workers on completion of the training camp.

At JD(U)’s forthcoming national executive meet scheduled to be held in New Delhi on July 8, the party is expected to deliberate on its strategy for the general elections and take up the contentious issue of seat-sharing.

The BJP had on Tuesday withdrawn from the government in a surprise move, which analysts say was pushed by its traditional vote base growing increasingly unhappy with the Ramzan ceasefire

The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is up in arms against the BJP government at the Centre, alleging that around 17,000 trees will be felled for the redevelopment plan.

Kejriwal was scheduled to hold a confidence-building meeting with senior IAS officers but owing to his poor health, all meetings for the day were cancelled.

Health minister Sidharth Nath Singh has written to chief secretary in this regard, and cited space crunch at the residence presently allotted to him by the government.

BJP, in a sudden announcement on Tuesday afternoon, pulled out of the PDP-led alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, blaming PDP for failing to control the situation in Kashmir.

The terms of engagement as part of the alliance included enhanced people-to-people contact on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC). The BJP ruled central government, has time and again, not supported the idea.

Their statement comes a day after Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia requested Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Anil Baijal to hold a meeting between the government and the bureaucrats to end the ongoing deadlock.