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Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who resigned as a judge of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, said that he would join BJP on Thursday. He claimed that West Bengal’s ruling party Trinamool Congress was “crumbling” and was “on the verge of collapse”. Addressing a press conference here, Gangopadhyay said BJP’s slogan of “zero tolerance towards corruption” was the main reason why he was joining the saffron party. “Trinamool Congress means corruption, corruption means Trinamool Congress,” Gangopadhyay reiterated while announcing his decision to join BJP on March 7. “Trinamool Congress is a party of miscreants — it is not a political party but a yatra (folk theatre) show — ‘Ma, Maati Manush,” he said.

Ravi Shankar Prasad and Anil Baluni. On Saturday BJP declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the saffron party candidate from Varanasi for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Notably, even before PM Modi, Varanasi had been a BJP stronghold, with the party retaining it consistently since 1991 except in 2004, when the Congress's Rajesh Kumar Mishra had won.

ALSO READ: Google's move will cause ‘irreparable harm to the market’: Indian startups' plea to CCI on app delisting row In a bid to find a solution to the crisis that was being labelled as a dark day for the internet by some, both Vaishnaw and Minister of State for Information and Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar held multiple rounds of discussions with Google and the app owners on Monday. Vaishnaw on Tuesday announced that Google has agreed to restore the status of Friday morning i.e. pre-delisting.

SBI sought time until June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties. In its verdict last month, the Supreme Court had directed the SBI to furnish the details to the poll panel by March 6.

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi was greeted with chants of «Modi-Modi» when it was passing through Shajapur city in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, prompting the Congress leader to stop his convoy and meet the BJP workers who raised the slogans. Gandhi was also seen blowing a flying kiss to the BJP workers from his vehicle before it moved forward. Gandhi's yatra entered the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Madhya Pradesh on Saturday afternoon. While it was passing through Shajapur, a group of BJP workers led by corporator Mukesh Dubey were seen raising slogans of «Modi-Modi» in praise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on A B Road. Seeing them, Gandhi asked the vehicle to be stopped near them. The former Congress chief them disembarked from the vehicle and met them.

Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday charged the ruling BJP at the Centre with diverting public attention by "Modi ka Parivaar" rhetoric, which came as a response to his father Lalu Prasad's attack on the Prime Minister a couple of days ago. Talking to reporters here, Yadav said BJP leaders suffixing «Modi ka Parivar» to their names reminded him of «Main Bhi Chowkidar» rhetoric ahead of Lok Sabha polls of 2019 when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had coined a slogan "chowkidar chor hai". «I am glad that the words of Lalu ji have so much impact,» remarked the former Bihar Deputy CM sarcastically, adding: «But what about issues like poverty and unemployment that he had raised? He spoke of so many things». Prasad, who is the RJD's founding president, had on Sunday told a rally here that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had «no family» of his own, in a bid to rubbish the latter's criticism of «parivarvad» or dynastic politics.

Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday critcised RJD chief Lalu Prasad's «no family» jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asserting that people do not expect such comments from a senior leader like him. Speaking to reporters in Patna, Sitharaman said there is a need to maintain dignity in politics. «What the PM said is correct, the entire country considers him their family. The entire country is the PM's family. Making such petty statements is not correct and is highly condemnable,» she said. «He (Lalu Prasad) has spent decades in politics and was also a CM of the state. People don't expect such comments from a senior leader like him. It disheartens the people. One has to maintain dignity in politics. The BJP has given a befitting reply to the RJD chief for making such comments against the PM,» she added.

195 candidates released last weekend was Rajeev Chandrasekhar, who has been fielded from Thiruvananthapuram, a seat in Kerala considered Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s stronghold. While Congress has yet to announce its candidate from the constituency, if they choose to field Tharoor again, it will be one of the high-profile contests in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024. Fielding Chandrasekhar is part of BJP’s aim to make inroads in Kerala, where it had failed to win any seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated Shehbaz Sharif on taking oath as the prime minister of Pakistan. Sharif on Monday took the oath as prime minister of Pakistan, assuming the cash-strapped country's reins for a second time, nearly a month after an inconclusive election marred by allegations of vote rigging.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, on Monday, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying his best to hide the "donation business." The former Congress president's remark came hours after the State Bank of India (SBI) approached the apex court seeking more time to disclose the names of donors. In a tweet, Rahul Gandhi said, «When the Supreme Court has stated that it is the right of the countrymen to know the truth about electoral bonds, why does SBI want this information not to be made public before the elections?» «Asking for time until 30th June for information that can be retrieved with one click shows that there is nothing black in the pulses; the entire pulses are black,» Gandhi added.

Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for the second Ayurvedic College of Assam. Sonowal also laid foundation stones for construction of two 50 bedded Ayush hospitals at Mowamarirjhar in Kokrajhar and at Silbari in Baksa, virtually from here. The new college will be developed with an estimated cost of Rs 70 crores. The Ministry of Ayush approved the proposal for establishment of Ayurvedic College at Dudhnoi in Goalpara in 2022-23. It is to be noted that the first Ayurvedic College was established way back in 1948 in Guwahati by Bharat Ratna Lok Priya Gopinath Bordoloi. The 50 bedded Integrated Ayush hospitals will be developed with an investment of Rs 30 crores. The college will have one G+3 College building, one boy’s hostel, one girls hostel, staff quarter, principal’s quarter, among other equipment, furniture, books etc. The college, which will be adjacent to the Integrated Ayush Hospitals, inaugurated by Sarbananda Sonowal in July, 2023, will be developed in 93 bighas of land. The state PWD will be executing agency and will be completed within 30 months.

BJP) to perform a hat-trick in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the party and its leaders are increasingly talking of their plans for the third term. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken several times in the recent past how his party will form the government and what all it would do. While such statements before polls are considered a rhetorical ploy by a party to present the inevitability of its victory in order to swing the undecided voters, PM Modi has outlined the agenda of his next government. In the last formal meeting of the Union Council of Ministers on Sunday before the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Modi chaired a brainstorming session on the vision document for 'Viksit Bharat (Developed India) 2047'. A 100-day agenda for immediate steps for quick implementation of policies after formation of the new government in May 2024 was also discussed. It signalled the government's confidence in its poll prospects as well as the eagerness to fast-forward policies that take benefit of the prevailing favourable factors. «Wait for bigger decisions in the third-term. I'm already working on a roadmap that will be completed soon,» Modi said at the ET NOW Global Business Summit last week. «There comes a time in the development journey of any country when all the circumstances are in its favour. This is the time when that country makes itself strong for many centuries to come. That's the time I see for India today,» said Modi.

Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda on Monday said the government has launched a mission to boost production of oilseeds and reduce imports of cooking oils. The minister virtually inaugurated administrative-cum-academic building, Manas Guest House, Subansiri Girls Hostel and Brahmaputra Boys Hostel at IARI, Dirpai Chapori, Gogamukh, Assam. Union Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary was present at the inaugural event and visited an exhibition stall at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), Assam. According to an official statement, Munda said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has special emphasis on the development of the Northeastern region.

Gemini AI chatbot regarding Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chandrasekhar criticized the AI's response, deeming it a direct violation of IT rules and criminal code provisions. In response, the government sought an explanation from Google.

natural gas pipeline infrastructure in its northeastern states and northern federal territories of Kashmir and Ladakh, a minister said on Monday. India, one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, is seeking to boost the use of cleaner fuel to cut its carbon emissions and has set a 2070 goal for net zero carbon emissions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is targeting raising the share of natural gas in India's energy mix to 15% by 2030 from the current 6.2%. Natural gas, while still a fossil fuel, emits less CO2 than coal.

Assam announcing to relaunch protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Assam police have sounded alert across the state. Recently Union Home minister Amit Shah has stated CAA rules will be notified and implemented before Lok Sabha polls. In several places in Assam, police have readied bamboo barricades in anticipation of the protest. A senior police officer who does not want to be named told ET, “We are anticipating protests however not on the scale which Assam witnessed in 2019 and 2020. There are some organisations which have announced its decision to relaunch the protest however we have taken that seriously and an alert is sounded. Additional forces are deployed in the districts however this deployment is in view of the Lok Sabha polls.”

195 candidates who will be contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024. The first list featured Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 34 Union ministers including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani. The first list had names of candidates from 16 states and two Union Territories.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Tamil Nadu, the state BJP convened its Core Committee meeting at the party headquarters in Kamalayam on Monday. As reported by ANI, the meeting was led by BJP State President K Annamalai and attended by senior leaders including Vanathi Srinivasan, Nainar Nagenthiran, AP Muruganandam, and Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy.

'Be cautious,' PM Modi's warning to ministers on dangers of deepfakes ahead of Lok Sabha polls 2024 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the national park on March 8 and 9. He is expected to arrive at the park on March 8 evening and will stay at night. The Prime Minister during the stay, is likelt to enjoy a jungle safari within the Kohora range of the park.

PTI that in the video circulated online, a man is seen in an objectionable position with a woman, and the person seen in this video is said to be Upendra Singh Rawat. "As soon as I got the party's ticket from Barabanki, my opponents did this act", claiming that the video is completely doctored. I hope the accused will be identified soon," he said.

Adani Green Energy Ltd. and associated firms are offering the 18-year note at initial price guidance in the 7.125% area, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the matter isn’t public.