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Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) released their first list of 39 candidates for the poll bound state. Madhya Pradesh is slated to go into polls in Novermber or December this year. Notably, Madhya Pradesh polls is also one of the five most crucial assembly elections yet to be conducted ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.

New Delhi: The Centre is committed to ensuring optimal operational efficiency of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) and will deploy annual performance reviews to achieve this, Union heavy industries minister Mahendra Nath Pandey said on Thursday. Pandey said performance reviews play a pivotal role in assessing CPSEs' progress and refining their operations.

Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Thursday forecast that the digital economy will contribute more than 20 per cent of the country’s GDP in 2026.

Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday lashed out at the BJP, alleging the party is busy campaigning in other states while "Manipur is burning". Addressing Mahila Congress members and workers at the Talkatora Stadium here, Kharge said the women leaders of the party will work hard and oust the BJP government in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. «If Rahul Gandhi can go to Manipur, why can't the prime minister visit? What protection has the BJP provided to the women there? They are fleeing homes, getting raped, and killed.

India aims to achieve 50% non-fossil fuel installe... moreIndia aims to achieve 50% non-fossil fuel installed capacity by 2030, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to G20 Energy Ministers.

Legislative Assembly on Thursday is likely to discuss the Manipur issue on the last day of its two-day session. According to the listed legislative business for the House for Thursday, MLAs Durgesh Pathak, Vinay Mishra and Kuldeep Kumar will initiate a short-duration discussion on the issue of disturbances in Manipur and the atrocities being faced by the people there. Earlier AAP leader and Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on August 11 said it is unfortunate that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not visit Manipur and take any action on it.

Vande Bharat Express, sparking worries about the safety of rail travel. The incident took place during the late afternoon hours near Vatakara, affecting the C-8 coach of the train. No injuries were reported as the window was shattered from outside impact.

Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot in March 1966. BJP social media cell chief Amit Malviya posted on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter), that Rajesh Pilot and Suresh Kalmadi flew IAF jets that bombed Aizawl (Mizoram's capital) in 1966. Malviya added, "Later both became MPs on Congress tickets and ministers in the government.

Narendra Modi, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should stop dividing the nation. Do establish peace in the country, it will progress only through peace," Singh said. Addressing a program earlier, Singh criticised the BJP-led state government, citing Uma Bharati's struggles against liquor bans as an example of BJP's treatment.

BRICS leaders meet in South Africa next week to discuss how to turn a loose club of nations accounting for a quarter of the global economy into a geopolitical force that can challenge the West's dominance in world affairs. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who faces an international arrest warrant over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, will not join leaders from Brazil, India, China and South Africa amid rifts over whether to expand the bloc to include dozens of «Global South» nations queuing up to join.

Chintan Shivir of the ministries of finance and corporate affairs, starting August 20 in Kevadia in Gujarat, will deliberate on both short and long-term measures that are required to achieve as well as sustain high growth rates, control inflation and tide over external headwinds, a person close to the development said. Finance and corporate affairs minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address the meeting on August 21, which will be attended by senior officials of all the departments of the two ministries.

union cabinet on Wednesday approved Rs 57,613 crore green mobility scheme, seven multitracking rail projects worth Rs 32,500 crore and a Rs 13,000 crore scheme to upskill and provide concessional credit to craftsmen. "....Priority will be given to cities having no organised bus service," Information and Broadcasting minister Anurag Singh Thakur told reporters after a meeting of the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Ajit K Doval and China's foreign minister Wang Yi are believed to be in touch over the disengagement of frontline troops at the two remaining points along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and are said to be discussing the future of political engagement ahead of the Brics and G20 summits. Doval and Wang have been in communication over the unresolved issues along the LAC since their meeting last month in South Africa on the sidelines of the Brics Summit, ET has reliably learnt.

NDA MPs’ meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to holding workshops for spokespersons from allied parties and formally inviting the ruling alliance leaders to attend a prayer meeting on the death anniversary of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, BJP is working to present NDA as an active and vibrant entity, in contrast to its redundant state in the recent past. Perhaps for the first time, a formal invitation was extended to NDA allies to attend a prayer meeting at ‘Sadaiv Atal’ memorial of Vajpayee, who spearheaded the first NDA government at the Centre. Several NDA leaders, including NCP’s Praful Patel, Apna Dal’s Anupriya Patel, NPP’s Agatha Sangma, HAM’s Jitan Ram Manjhi and several others, attended the meeting. This is the third event where BJP has engaged with its NDA allies, after it held an NDA meet last month –– held after a gap of almost five years. During this period, the idea of the alliance appeared redundant as BJP had got a massive majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Modi, during his interactions with NDA MPs, suggested that they work as one team and speak in one voice. All these efforts from BJP came amid Opposition parties, despite their differences, managing to present a united picture under the INDIA bloc.

Line of Actual Control in the Western Sector. The 19th round of China-India Corps Commander Level Meeting was held at Chushul-Moldo border meeting point on the Indian side from August 13 to 14. A joint press release issued after the two-day talks did not indicate any immediate breakthrough in the disengagement of troops in the remaining friction points.

SSC, in 15 languages so that the youth of the country do not miss any opportunity. This historic decision will give impetus to participation of local youth and encourage regional languages, he said, addressing the 14th Hindi Consultative Committee meeting of the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. «It has been recently decided to conduct the government job test in 15 Indian languages so that the language barrier does not let any youth of the country miss the job opportunity,» said Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel.

Alliance (NDA) at the Centre. Clarifying on the meeting, Sharad Pawar has said, “It was a family meeting with Ajit Pawar. I did not go to the media talking about the meeting." The meeting between NCP founder Sharad Pawar and his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on August 12 at businessman Atul Chordiya’s residence in the Koregaon Park area had sent political circles abuzz.

CJI) D Y Chandrachud has said the real strength of the judicial system is granting access to justice to the citizens and a sense of confidence that an arbitrary arrest or threatened demolition «must find solace and a voice in judges of the Supreme Court.» Speaking at the Independence Day celebrations organised on Tuesday by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) at the apex court lawns, the CJI stressed the greatest challenge before the Indian judiciary is to eliminate barriers to accessing justice and make sure that the judiciary is inclusive and accessible to the last person in the line. "...Because irrespective of an outcome of the case, I believe the real strength of our system is granting access to justice to our citizens, that sense of confidence of the individual that an arbitrary arrest, a threatened demolition… must find solace and a voice in judges of the Supreme Court," he said. Soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on Independence Day lauded the apex court's move to translate operative parts of judgements in regional languages, Justice Chandrachud said till now, 9,423 judgements of the top court have been translated into regional languages. The CJI also talked about the efforts of the apex court to make all its 35,000 judgements available to citizens in regional languages.

Union Cabinet approving the 'PM Vishwakarma' scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the initiative will celebrate traditional artisans and crafts people, both from rural and urban India. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the 'PM Vishwakarma' scheme with a financial outlay of Rs 13,000 crore for a period of five years that will benefit about 30 lakh families of traditional artisans and craftsmen, including weavers, goldsmiths, blacksmiths, laundry workers and barbers.

Tulsi Bhai by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that he liked the name because tulsi is a medicinal plant and has many benefits, reported PTI. Countries of all income groups should invest in primary health care (PHC), which can provide more than 80 per cent of services and also help detect outbreaks of pandemics at an early stage, Ghebreyesus said. On the EG.5 strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus being recently classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a variant of interest, Ghebreyesus said it is important to continue to remain vigilant.

Congress and the BJP crossed swords on Wednesday over the renaming of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library with the opposition party accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of «distorting and destroying» the Nehruvian legacy and the ruling party dismissing the criticism as a «lament of courtiers». The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has officially been renamed as the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society with effect from August 14. The Congress said despite the «relentless assault», India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy will live on for the world to see and he will continue to inspire the generations to come. History is created, it is never changed or converted, the opposition party asserted. In a post on X, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said, «From today, an iconic institution gets a new name. The world-renowned Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) becomes PMML — Prime Ministers' Memorial Museum and Library.» «Mr Modi possesses a huge bundle of fears, complexes and insecurities, especially when it comes to our first and longest-serving Prime Minister. He has had a single-point agenda of denying, distorting, defaming and destroying Nehru and the Nehruvian legacy,» Ramesh said.