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Congress on Monday constituted election committees for Chhattisgarh assembly polls, with Kumari Selja appointed convener of the Core Committee and Charan Dass Mahant chairperson of the Election Campaign Committee.

The United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion will be holding a hearing discussing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for the first time in months.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt had nominated Josephs as his preferred candidate in August to replace Andy King on the BRC.

Manmohan Singh. Kharge recast the CEC on Monday, inducting various leaders and removing senior leaders like former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and other veterans like A K Antony, Janardan Dwivedi, and M Veerappa Moily.

leadership of then CM Devendra Fadnavis, the government announced the Maratha reservation. The High Court also upheld the Maratha Reservation decision taken by the government. But the Supreme Court took a different decision.

Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who declined to serve on the panel formed by the Centre to examine 'one nation, one election' had given his consent to be part of the committee before notification with names came out, a source in the government said on Sunday. Notably, Chowdhury, who was named a member of the High-Level Committee (HLC) constituted by the Centre on Saturday to examine 'one nation, one election' has declined to serve on the panel, saying its «terms of reference have been prepared in a manner to guarantee its conclusions». Chowdhary on Saturday wrote to Home Minister Amit Shah refusing to be a part of the committee. «The sudden attempt to thrust a constitutionally suspect, pragmatically non-feasible and logistically unimplementable idea on the nation, months before the general elections, raises serious concerns about the ulterior motives of the government», the letter read. The Union Law Ministry on Saturday named eight members to the committee, headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind, that will examine the issue of simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, Assemblies, municipalities and panchayats. Apart from the Chairperson, the committee will include Home Minister Amit Shah, Chowdhury, former Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Finance Commission chairperson NK Singh, senior advocate Harish Salve, former Lok Sabha Secretary General Subhash C Kashyap, and former Chief Vigilance Commissioner Sanjay Kothari. The committee has been set up months before assembly polls in five states and ahead of Lok Sabha polls next year. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi had informed about the constitution of the committee on Friday. With five states going to the polls later this year and

Law Ministry on Saturday notified that former Indian President Ram Nath Kovind will be heading the 'One Nation One Election committee' as the chairman, ET reported. The ministry has revealed that Amit Shah, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Ghulam Nabi Azad, NK Singh, Subhash C.

Aakash Education (AESL) has formed an executive council to appoint a new CEO at the brick-and-mortar coaching network following the official exit of its chief executive Abhishek Maheshwari and chief financial officer Vipan Joshi. Byju Raveendran– chief executive officer at Byju’s, Ajay Goel–group chief financial officer of Byju’s, Anup Kumar Agrawal, chief business officer of AESL and Sachin Saxena, chief human resources officer (CHRO) of AESL are part of the executive council, as per an internal note sent by Raveendran.

Narendra Modi. Speculation has heightened about a possible rescheduling of electoral timelines, both for the Lok Sabha and various state assemblies. This comes on the heels of an upcoming special session of Parliament, slated for September 18-22.

However, no further details were provided so far. This comes after the government has called for a special session of Parliament for five days starting September 18. However, no official announcement has been made regarding the agenda of the session which will be held days after the G20 Summit in the national capital, Delhi, on September 8 to 10, 2023. With the BJP government calling for a special session of the Parliament in September, speculation is rife about the purpose of the sitting.

PTI. According to SEBI, the committee -- constituted in March 2015 and had 20 members when it was last rejigged by the regulator in February 2022 -- has now 25 members. Chaired by Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy, the committee has submitted three reports on the AIF (Alternative Investment Fund) industry.

Zomi Council Steering Committee (ZCSC), an organisation advocating the cause of nine Kuki-Zomi tribes of Manipur, has accused that a press communiqué issued on August 25, 2023, by the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI) and the accompanying representation to the Union Minister of Home Affairs is highly derogatory, inflated with falsified assumptions of actual facts, and anti-peace. It stated that COCOMI «without the slightest hesitation accused the Zo people who defended their land, their dignity and their very existence under India as being indoctrinated secessionists. The same is utterly baseless; and if the same be ascertained based on recent history, the Meitei secessionist movement will only be the logical answer.

The Kenyan government has formed a 15-member parliamentary committee to investigate the contentious Worldcoin project.

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Siddaramaiah on Monday said the government would form a committee to formulate a state education policy within a year while continuing the existing system for now. A week ago, he had announced that the state would scrap the National Education Policy (NEP), provoking dire warnings from the BJP about the move «taking the state backwards by several decades.» Addressing a Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) meeting, the CM said that as education was a state subject, the centre could not legally formulate country-wide laws about it. «The NEP has been created without consulting the states,» he added.

The Worldcoin cryptocurrency project has run into another roadblock — this time in Kenya, where the government has formed a 15-member parliamentary committee to investigate the controversial asset.

Amit Shah will release the Madhya Pradesh government's «report card» in Bhopal on Sunday and address the BJP's working committee meeting in Gwalior, a party functionary said. The state assembly polls are due this year-end. Gwalior is the home turf of Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.

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.

Former MLA YSV Datta has been appointed convener of the core committee. Interestingly, no family member of the party patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda are part of the core committee.

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.

Narendra Modi will attend the BJP's Central Election Committee and the meeting will be attended by other senior leaders of the party. The main agenda of the meet is likely to be hold discussions on the upcoming state assembly polls, party leaders said. The CEC members are expected to take stock of the ongoing poll preparations, gather feedback and shape the party's strategy, including for selecting candidates, in the meeting, sources said to news agency PTI.