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BJP) fielded him in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, party's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Monday said that the central leadership's decision was «surprising» and that he will do whatever they say. The BJP leader has been fielded by the party from Indore-1 constituency for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly election, slated to be held later this year. While speaking to ANI, on the development, Vijayvargiya said, «This is the party's order. I was told that I would be assigned work that I would not say 'no' and I would have to do it.

Check all LIVE Updates on Bengaluru Bandh hereAccording to BMTC, all routes of Bengaluru Metropolitan Transport Corporation will be operational as usual, news agency ANI has reportedKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Monday said his government will not curtail the “Bengaluru bandh" called by some farmers' organisations on Tuesday as protests over the release of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu have intensified. The directive from the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) instructed Karnataka to extend the release of 5,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu for an additional 15 days.

NEW DELHI : National parties have lined up farm loan waivers, income support schemes and the old pension scheme as they look to seize or retain power in key Assembly elections. Five states—Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram— go to Assembly polls in November and December.

Surat/Chennai: During his State visit to the US in June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi carried a unique gift for First Lady Jill Biden. It was a 7.5-carat diamond, neatly packed in an exquisite Kashmiri papier-mache box. It was not a diamond that had been mined from deep under the earth; instead, it had been grown in a laboratory in Surat, mimicking the conditions that create natural diamonds.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday took a train ride from Bilaspur to Raipur in Chhattisgarh and interacted with the passengers and said that his Bharat Jodo Yatra continues. Rahul Gandhi in a post on Facebook said, «Bharat Jodo journey continues… A short train journey from Bilaspur to Raipur — During the journey, I got a chance to meet many fellow travelers and had a lot of conversations.» Earlier in the day, the Congress leader addressed a public meeting in poll bound Chhattisgarh. Rahul Gandhi was accompanied with Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, state incharge Kumari Selja and others. He also interacted with the train passengers during his journey. Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi while addressing a public meeting in Bilaspur, he asked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi why he was afraid of the caste census in the country. He also said that caste census is like an x-ray of the country's social fabric which is important to ensure everybody's due participation in the decision making process.

Rahul Gandhi boarded the intercity train from Bilaspur to Raipur. Congress' X handle released a picture where the leader can be seen interacting with fellow passengers. Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels :rocket: Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! In Bilaspur, Rahul Gandhi spoke on the recently passed Women Reservation Bill and repeated his words from Lok Sabha where he talked about only 3 OBC secretaries working in government.

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached poll bound Rajasthan on Monday. PM Modi was welcomed by the BJP Mahila Morcha cadre at the venue of a BJP rally, days after Parliament passed the women's reservation bill. PM Modi reached the meeting venue in Dadiya village in Vatika on the outskirts of Jaipur from a nearby helipad in an open-top vehicle escorted by activists of the BJP's women wing who raised slogans in his support.

High Court on Monday issued fresh notice to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on a plea by an NGO seeking damages, claiming its documentary «India: The Modi Question» casts a slur on the country's reputation and makes false and defamatory imputations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian judiciary. Besides BBC, Justice Sachin Datta also issued fresh notice to BBC (India) on the plea filed by Gujarat-based NGO Justice On Trial. «Issue fresh notice to the defendants through all permissible modes,» the high court said, and listed the matter for further hearing on December 15. It had on May 22 issued notice to the defendants on the plea which has said BBC (UK) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom and has released the news documentary — «India: The Modi Question» — which has two episodes and BBC (India) is its local operations office.

India, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi why is he scared of the caste census. «The Government of India is being run by secretaries and cabinet secretaries. Only 3 out of 90 secretaries in the government of India are OBCs.

Khalistani extremist on the radar of National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to media agency reports, raids have been conducted at 48 places in the entire district and many people have also been detained.

Deve Gowda on Monday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct the Jal Shakti Ministry to appoint an external agency, independent of the states that are party to the dispute and the union government, to conduct studies of all reservoirs in the Cauvery basin. He also stressed the need to have an appropriate distress formula applicable to all the states concerned, in such distress conditions. Noting that due to the failure of the Southwest monsoon (from June to September) this year, there is insufficient storage in the identified/designated four reservoirs of Cauvery basin in Karnataka, he said the state is facing such a grave situation that it is finding it extremely difficult even to cater to the drinking water requirements, let alone for irrigation. The Janata Dal (S) supremo released a copy of the September 23 letter that he wrote to the Prime Minister on issues of 'resolving the ongoing disputes and differences between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in the matter of releasing Cauvery waters from Karnataka reservoirs to Tamil Nadu,' at a press conference. Deve Gowda said that the combined storage available as of September 23 in all four reservoirs of Cauvery basin in Karnataka is only 51.10 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) whereas the requirement for standing crops and for drinking water is 112 TMC. «The attitude of Tamil Nadu in pressing for additional releases far in excess of 40 TMC already released so far is not only unjust but also against all principles of equity and natural justice, considering the fact that providing drinking water is a fundamental right under the Constitution and it gets the highest priority in the National Water Policy,» Gowda wrote in the letter. «To appoint an external agency,

Banks are likely to roll out the scheme in a couple of months, ahead of key state elections later this year and general elections due in mid-2024. Last month, the South Asian country cut cooking gas prices for households by about 18% to rein in inflation ahead of elections. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the plan in a speech in August to mark the country's Independence Day, but its details have not been previously reported. The scheme will offer an annual interest subsidy of between 3-6.5% on up to 0.9 million rupees of the loan amount.

₹450, whereas the Prime Minister says that you will give a cylinder for ₹900. He further stated, "During the Prime Minister's visit to Sagar district, you told him that the Congress government did not pay attention to Bundelkhand whereas the UPA government had given a special Bundelkhand package of ₹7200 crore to the Bundelkhand region." Earlier, when Home Minister Amit Shah was asked about the CM face for MP polls this, he said that the party would decide on the Chief Minister's post only after the elections.

Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday challenged Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to contest elections from Hyderabad and not Wayanad in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. The AIMIM MP was addressing a public gathering in his parliamentary constituency, Hyderabad. Owaisi said that the Babri Masjid, in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya, was demolished under the regime of the grand old party. «I am challenging your leader (Rahul Gandhi) to contest elections from Hyderabad and not Wayanad. You keep giving big statements, come to the ground and fight against me.

Dainik Bhaskar, parents have been notified of these changes through SMS and WhatsApp messages over the past two days. However, it's worth noting that the Education Department has not officially declared a holiday, with DEO Anjani Kumar stating that there has been no directive to close schools. Mint could not independently confirm the development. As per the report, a significant number of schools situated in the BHEL area will not be in session on Monday.

Khalistan if he supported the ‘anti-India Khalistanis’. "If Canada's PM loves Khalistanis, then why doesn't he break up a part of Canada and create a new Khalistan country? We will be the first to give him recognition," said Jai Bhagwan Goyal as quoted by ANI.

Women Reservation Bill in Parliament, the BJP is working persistently to capitalise on it marking it as a major achievement under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi is all set to address two big rallies in Jaipur and Bhopal on Monday and the BJP has given complete charge of the rally, stage and crowd management to the party's Mahila Morcha leaders. In Bhopal where state leaders are busy preparing for a successful program on Monday during the PM's visit, important roles have been assigned to women leaders and Mahila Morcha of the party. «The women in the party as well as the state want to thank PM Modi for the historic Women Reservation Bill. He will be welcomed by women leaders and through different programs, women leaders will express gratitude to the Prime Minister,» Kavita Patidar, state BJP general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, told ET. In MP, the BJP government state has several women-centric schemes already running and the party is projecting the Women Reservation Bill as another major step to empower women.

cleanliness drive will be conducted on October 1 responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal for «one hour of shramdaan for swachhata», the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said on Sunday.

BSP MP Danish Ali on Sunday alleged that after his «verbal lynching» in Lok Sabha a narrative was being set for «lynching» him outside the House as he hit back at BJP leader Nishikant Dubey for accusing him of making unsavoury remarks aimed at instigating the ruling party MP Ramesh Bidhuri. Bidhuri's derogatory remarks targeting Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member Ali during a discussion on the success of Chandrayaan-3 in the Lok Sabha on Thursday triggered a furore, with opposition leaders calling for stringent action against the BJP MP. Dubey had on Saturday written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urging him to also probe the «unsavoury» conduct and remarks of Ali. In the letter to Birla, Dubey accused Ali of offering a «running commentary» during Bidhuri's speech in Lok Sabha on Thursday and making «unsavoury remarks aimed at instigating him to lose his composure. Reacting to Dubey's allegations, Ali said, „I have seen Nishikant Dubey's letter.

G Kishan Reddy said on Sunday. He was speaking at an event at the Kachiguda railway station here on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagging off nine Vande Bharat trains, including the Hyderabad (Kachiguda)-Bengaluru (Yeswantpur) Vande Bharat Express, virtually. The modernisation of railway stations is going on in a big way, he said. Reddy said nine new Vande Bharat trains being flagged off on a single day is a record. The nine trains inaugurated on Sunday connect 111 cities which include pilgrim centres, tourism destinations, commercial hubs, he said. The Hyderabad-Bengaluru Vande Bharat Express is the third Vande Bharat train from Telangana.

Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday announced that three new air routes would be operationalised in Arunachal Pradesh by October this year.