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Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday announced that the film 'The Sabarmati Report' will be exempted from entertainment tax across the state. Uttarakhand is the seventh BJP-ruled state to have made the film tax-free after Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat. The film, directed by Dheeraj Saran, is based on the 2002 Godhra riots and was released in cinemas on November 15. It stars Vikrant Massey, Raashii Khanna and Ridhi Dogra in pivotal roles. Dhami watched the film with his cabinet colleagues, other MPs and MLAs. He said, «59 Ram devotees boarded the Sabarmati Express train from Ayodhya and it was set on fire at Godhra station. They all died untimely death. Back then, there was less investigation and more politics in the matter. The truth did not come out.»

Lok Sabha proceedings were on Monday adjourned for about 30 minutes after DMK members protested over Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's remarks that the Tamil Nadu government was «dishonest» on the issue of implementing the PM Schools for Rising India (PM SHRI) scheme. Replying to a question on the PM SHRI scheme, Pradhan said the DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has changed its stand on implementing the centrally-sponsored scheme which envisaged strengthening the schools managed by central, state or local bodies. The state concerned has to sign an MoU with the central government that it would implement the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and in return the central government provides the fund. «The Tamil Nadu government had initially agreed to sign the MoU. But now they have changed the stand. Many non-BJP-ruled states, including Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, have signed the agreement,» he said.

Rekha Gupta, a first-time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Shalimar Bagh, will be sworn in today as Delhi’s Chief Minister. The oath-taking ceremony will take place at noon at Ramlila Maidan, a venue with deep political and cultural significance. This marks a major shift in Delhi’s political landscape, as the BJP returns to power after 26 years.

AAP is voted to power in Delhi again, his top priority would be to provide employment opportunities to youngsters, party supremo Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday. Addressing a «janasabha» in the Vishwas Nagar Assembly constituency ahead of the February 5 Delhi Assembly polls, Kejriwal said, «The biggest work I am going to do is on employment. I will arrange employment for our youngsters. Providing employment to our youngsters will be my top priority.»

Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday hit out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the alleged caste atrocities committed against Dalits and Adivasis in the states including Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh where they are in power.

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj took a dig at the Centre over its Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme on Thursday, claiming that it «exists only on paper». The minister said this during his visit to the Delhi government-run GB Pant Hospital. According to a statement issued by the Delhi government, Bharadwaj visited the hospital to meet patients on the occasion of Diwali, share festive greetings and distribute fruits. The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are engaged in a political battle over the Ayushman Bharat scheme, which has not been implemented in the national capital.

Modi on Sunday gave several suggestions to the chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of BJP-ruled states on further improving the governance in their respective states, emphasising on messaging of the welfare schemes for their better delivery.

Jairam Ramesh said, «Yesterday, the self-anointed non-biological Prime Minister said that Viksit Bharat depends on Viksit states. Wow, such a profundity. If only he put the taxpayer's money where his mouth is!»

Budget a collection of «jumlas», senior Congress leader Selja cautioned NDA members Nitish Kumar and N Chandrababu Naidu that they may celebrate today for getting a large share but it doesn't take long for time to change. Selja initiated the discussion on the Budget and questioned how target groups were identified without a caste census.

Anupriya Patel of Apna Dal (S), a BJP ally, has raised questions over the recruitment process in UP government jobs, especially those given on the basis of interviews. She said reserved category vacancies were sometimes being filled with general category candidates and the reason being cited is that no suitable reserved category candidate has been found for the post.

NCERT says teaching about Gujarat riots, Babri masjid demolition ‘can create violent, depressed citizens’"The NCERT has decided to replace Babri Masjid with the words ‘three domed structure.’ It has also decided to call the Ayodhya judgement an example of 'consensus.' India’s children should know that the Supreme Court called the demolition of Babri Masjid an egregious criminal act," Owaisi said.He also added that the children should know that a functioning masjid was "desecrated" in 1949 and then demolished by a mob in 1992. "They should not grow up glorifying criminal acts."Also read: NCERT omits some references to ‘Gujarat riots, Babri Masjid’ from Class 12 syllabus.

petrol prices above Rs 100 a litre and diesel to Rs 89, but rates are lower than neighbouring Andhra Pradesh which has the costliest fuel in the country, oil industry data showed. The Karnataka government on June 15 hiked local VAT (value added tax) from 25.92 per cent to 29.84 per cent on petrol and from 14.3 per cent to 18.4 per cent on diesel. This led to petrol price now costing Rs 102.86 per litre in Bengaluru and diesel coming for Rs 88.94 a litre. But the rates in Karnataka are still lower than neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Shah on Saturday alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is spreading false propaganda on the Agniveer military recruitment scheme. Gandhi, in his first election meeting in Haryana for the Lok Sabha polls on Wednesday, had said that the Agniveer scheme will be scrapped and thrown in the dustbin if the INDIA bloc comes to power. He had also slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for «turning Hindustan ke jawan into labourers».

Mamaji (as former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is known) did some excellent work, and his schemes, especially Ladli Behna Yojana, have reached everyone. So, the BJP government both in the state and Centre have together given the needy a lot of suvidha (facilities)." Over 2,000km away in Kaziranga, Assam, Rubika Ingtipi, 25, a vegetable seller from Karbi Anglong, echoes similar sentiments. “We get help under the (state government’s flagship) Orunodoi scheme, along with benefits from other welfare policies.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is putting up a «brave fight» against the BJP, Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said that his actions suggest otherwise and alleged Gandhi is «hesitant» to contest from the BJP-ruled states. He further alleged that Gandhi seeks refuge in states with considerably high minority population. Azad took a dig at Gandhi and National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah, referring to them as «spoon-fed kids» rather than politicians, and said that both have done nothing on their own. «Why is Rahul Gandhi hesitant to contest in the BJP-ruled states? While Gandhi claims to be fighting the BJP, his actions suggest otherwise. Why fly from the BJP-ruled states and seek refuge in minority-dominated ones?» Azad said while addressing public meetings in Sangaldan, Ukhral areas of the Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency.

Political films lose steam at the box office Besides, CM Vijayan has asked the DD not to become a "propaganda machine" for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP and the Rashtriya Sayamsewak Sangh (RSS). "Kerala will remain steadfast in opposing such malicious attempts to sow hatred," Vijayan said. Kerala opposition leader V D Satheesan wrote on the X platfrom, “The strategy of the Sangh Parivar administration led by Modi is to create division within secular society by screening the film 'The Kerala Story', which is a collection of untruth…The politics of division cannot be used in Kerala".

diesel prices are the costliest in the country in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Kerala while it is cheapest in smaller states and UTs like Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Delhi and those in the North East, mainly due to differential in local sales tax or VAT rates, oil industry data showed. The three state-owned fuel retailers — Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) — last week cut petrol and diesel prices by Rs 2 a litre each, ending a nearly two-year hiatus in price revision. That reduction brought relief to fuel users but rates continue to be above Rs 100 a litre mark in some states due to higher Value Added Tax (VAT). Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSRCP-ruled Andhra Pradesh has the costliest petrol at Rs 109.87 a litre, followed by Left Democratic Front (LDF)-ruled Kerala, where a litre of petrol comes for Rs 107.54. Congress-run Telangana is close behind with petrol costing Rs 107.39 a litre.

Follow Electoral Bonds Data Live updates here However, there's no way to find out which donor/company donated how much to which political parties. This was despite the Supreme Court raising concerns in its February 15 judgement that the now-scrapped Electoral Bond Scheme can lead to quid pro quo. In later rulings, the Supreme Court said the State Bank of India (SBI) does not need to match the names of electoral bond buyers with specific political parties.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced names of seven more candidates in Gujarat, which has 26 Lok Sabha seats, dropping five sitting MPs, including junior Railway minister Darshana Jardosh, and replacing them with new faces. On March 2, the BJP, in its first list of 195 candidates, had announced nominees for 15 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, where the saffron outfit had swept the polls in 2019. After the release of second list of 72 candidates in New Delhi, contestants for only four seats in the BJP-ruled state remain to be declared by the saffron party.

Sandeshkhali will sweep Bengal" and decimate the ruling party, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met a group of women from Sandeshkhali and accused the BJP of spreading lies about her party. Asserting that Bengal was the safest place for women, Banerjee hit out at PM Modi, asking why is the BJP silent on Bilkis Bano, Hathras rape case of UP, women of Manipur and women athletes who have accused BJP leader and WFI president of sexual assault. Banerjee said that a «political tornado» will rise against the BJP while claiming that the BJP is angry with the Trinamool as the party doesn't allow divisive politics in Bengal.