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Congress will strengthen its organisation at the taluka and state levels in Gujarat and reach out to the public for their support for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, senior party leader Mukul Wasnik said on Sunday. Wasnik was on his first visit to Ahmedabad after being made the Congress' general secretary in charge of the state. «In the coming days the organisation of Gujarat Congress will be strengthened and specific responsibilities will be fixed at the taluka, district and state levels.

₹12.50 crore nett in India on Day 16, report by Sacnilk.com showed. As per the report, the total collection in India business now stands at ₹438.70 crore nett. Moreover, speaking of the film's Day 17 collection, the report added that film may earm somewhere around ₹14.00 crore nett in India taking the film to cross ₹450 crore mark.

Narendra Modi on Saturday said the excitement generated by the success of Chandrayaan-3 has to be channelised to power scientific temper among youngsters to realise the dream of a developed India by 2047. Addressing a function organised at the airport here by the BJP to celebrate the success of Chandrayaan-3 and welcome the prime minister on his return from his two-nation tour, Modi said that at the BRICS Summit in South Africa and during his visit to Greece, he received several congratulatory messages over the success of the lunar mission. Modi was welcomed at the Delhi airport by BJP president J P Nadda and Lok Sabha members from the national capital, while scores of people had gathered at the function to celebrate the Chandrayaan-3 landing on the Moon. The prime minister also spoke about his brief stopover in Bengaluru on Saturday morning, during which he met ISRO scientists and took the decision to name the landing point of the spacecraft as «Shiv Shakti».

Gadar 2' is busy celebrating as the movie crossed the Rs 400 crore-mark earlier this week. Since its release on August 11, the Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel-starrer has collected a total of Rs 426.20 crore (nett) on Day 15 at the box-office. While the movie made Rs 284.63 crore in the first week, it recorded the second week at Rs 134.47 crore, according to production house Zee Studios. With the immense success of the movie, the 'Gadar 2' team has all the reasons to celebrate. On Friday, the lead actor of the movie attended a success party with his actor-brother Bobby Deol in Mumbai. Sunny kept it classy in a T-shirt along with a grey coat and a pair of denim trousers, and Bobby opted for a white T-shirt with green loose-fitted trousers. Meanwhile, Patel attended a special screening of her movie, organised by The ELecon Group of Companies. A special screening of 'Gadar 2' — hosted by the makers — has been planned in the New Parliament House, New Delhi, for the Lok Sabha members for three days, starting on Friday at 11:00 a.m.

home ministry is learnt to have informed a parliamentary panel looking into the new three bills seeking to reform the criminal laws, that a provision has been added in the Evidence Act that no court shall require any privileged communication between the ministers and the President of India to be produced before it. These details were shared with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, which is examining the three bills which seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and the Evidence Act, with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bills, respectively. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla made a detailed presentation on various aspects of the proposed legislation. His presentation will continue for two more days (Friday and Saturday). In the second week of September, members are likely to get two days to seek clarification from the home secretary. Home Minister Amit Shah had introduced the three bills –– the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill –– in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon session, and the House had referred them to the standing committee. The ministry has informed the panel that it has proposed a provision in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, which will be replaced with Bharatiya Sakshya Bill that no court shall require privileged communication between ministers and the President of India to be produced before it, sources said.

Janshakti Party chief and his late brother Ram Vilas Paswan, while Chirag Paswan will inherit only his father's financial assets by law. Ram Vilas Paswan, a veteran Dalit leader and a political heavyweight from Bihar, passed away in October 2020 after prolonged illness.

Aishwarya Rai. The video of the remarks, made by Maharashtra tribal minister Vijaykumar Gavit at a public function in Nandurbar district, north Maharashtra, has gained widespread attention on social media. Minister Gavit's said, «People who consume fish on a daily basis develop smooth skin and their eyes sparkle. If anyone looks at you, the person will get attracted (towards you).

Maharashtra minister for tribal development, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijaykumar Gavit invited trouble for himself within his own ranks, when on Monday he was heard saying that daily consumption of fish would enable one to get eyes as beautiful as former Miss World and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. A video of the remarks by state tribal minister Vijaykumar Gavit, made at a public function in north Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district, has gone viral on social media. “People who consume fish on a daily basis develop smooth skin and their eyes sparkle.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Friday referred the three proposed bills, which seek to replace British-era criminal laws, to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs for examination. Rajya Sabha has asked the Standing Committee to submit its report within three months.

Lok Sabha membership was restored, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Wednesday nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on defence. Congress MP Amar Singh too has been nominated to the committee, according to a Lok Sabha bulletin.

Keeping other aspects of the economy aside, let us have a glance at how the Indian rupee from being a relatively weak currency started its journey toward internationalisation. The value of a country's currency and its usage for global trade are among the key indicators for gauging its economic stride. Banks from 22 countries have opened special Rupee vostro accounts in Indian banks in order to trade in local currency as part of gradual de-dollarisation plans, the Parliament was informed during the just concluded monsoon session of Parliament.

no-confidence motion was analogous to a warm-up game. As in such matches, neither the current champion nor the challenger had 'winning' as an objective since the result — the no-confidence motion's defeat — was preordained. Consequently, both sides rolled out their wares, tested strengths, checked out what is and what isn't working, besides creating hawa in their favour.

Mizo National Front (MNF) Zoramthanga said on Saturday that the party's support to the BJP-led NDA is only issue-based. MNF is an ally NDA. The party is yet to decide if it will leave NDA.

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday said the suspending members will «undermine the spirit of Parliamentary democracy» and termed the practice as a «deliberate design by the ruling party to throttle the voice of the Opposition». The Congress MP who was suspended from Lok Sabha for «deliberate and repeated misconduct» said that he can «approach the Supreme Court» if needed. The matter of Chowdhury's suspension has been referred to the Privileges Committee.

Aam Admi Party leader Raghav Chadha has changed his bio on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) after being suspended from Rajya Sabha on charges of “gross violation of rules, misconduct, defiant attitude and contemptuous conduct", pending investigation by privileges committee. The new X bio of Raghav Chadha now reads, ‘Suspended Member of Parliament, India’.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill - reeks of linguistic imperialism." "This is an affront to the very foundation of #INDIA's unity. BJP and Prime Minister Modi have no moral right to even utter the word #Tamil hereafter," he said in a tweet. Earlier in the day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the bills in the Lok Sabha saying it would replace colonial-era laws.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his reply to the no-confidence debate in Lok Sabha, saying that he should have talked about peace efforts in Manipur but his over two-hour-long speech was filled with jokes, sarcasm and irrelevant talk. In his over 130-minute reply in Lok Sabha to the no-confidence brought by opposition parties, Modi on Thursday slammed the opposition alliance INDIA as a collection of arrogant dynasties who will take India back by two centuries as he exuded confidence that people will bless 'garib ka beta' with a record-breaking mandate in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the automobile sector, Parliament was informed on Friday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Heavy Industries Krishan Pal Gurjar said that the ministry is implementing two PLI schemes — automobile and auto components, and advanced chemistry cell (ACC) battery storage.

AAP MP Sushil Kumar Rinku on Friday came to the Parliament complex in chains to protest against his suspension from Lok Sabha and that of his party colleagues Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha from Rajya Sabha. «Democracy in the country is in danger today. The central government has tied all the four pillars of democracy with chains of slavery,» Rinku told PTI.

Kavitha has said she would be contesting from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, where she lost to sitting BJP MP D Arvind in the last general elections, in the 2024 polls. Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, she hit out at the incumbent MP saying he did not do anything for the development of Nizamabad. «Nizamabad MP asks me from where I would contest in the next general elections.

Trinamool Congress on Friday bashed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the Lok Sabha, saying that he had spent an «agonizing two hours extolling the virtues of his government.» The West Bengal based party, in a tweet, said that while the speech touched on how the BJP was a boon for the Indian economy, it omitted facts deliberately. In the tweet, the Trinamool Congress said, "India's account deficit hit a record high of $36.4 billion in the July-September 2022 quarter." Additionally, they pointed to the fact that the unemployment rate rose to a 16-month high of 8.3% in December, 2022, while the Indian rupee ended 2022 as the worst-performing Asian currency.