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government is looking at ways to give a big push to its Bharat staples brand, under which it sells atta, rice and pulses in the retail market at subsidised rates, ahead of the general elections in April-May. «The plan is to carpet bomb Bharat brand products in every assembly constituency before the elections,» said a senior official aware of the government's plan, adding that the mandate is to take it to as many consumers as possible. The three agencies — Kendriya Bhandar, National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India (NCCF) — through which the Bharat products are sold have been asked to sell 300,000-400,000 metric tonnes of rice and atta every month, said the people cited above. Equal emphasis has to be given to pulses also, they added.

FIR has been registered against the JD(S) leader contesting the Rajya Sabha elections in Karnataka, D Kupendra Reddy, and his aides at the Vidhana Soudha police station in Bengaluru, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah too confirmed that an FIR has been registered for «threatening» the Congress MLAs in connection with the Rajya Sabha elections. «The Congress leaders not only spoke about allurement and threat to their MLAs time and again but also registered an FIR against Kupendra Reddy and his aides,» the JD(S) second-in-command told reporters here. Kumaraswamy said the complainant MLA did not say that he was lured, but that some other MLAs were «approached». «Melukote MLA Darshan Puttannaiah of Karnataka Sarvodaya Paksha too had said that it's true that his vote was sought but no one had lured him,» the JD(S) state chief claimed. Kumaraswamy also said the BJP and JD(S) had decided that the votes of its 19 JD(S) MLAs and the additional BJP votes after its first preferential votes would go to Kupendra Reddy. Siddaramaiah slammed the Janata Dal (Secular) for allegedly trying to lure Congress legislators to get its candidate Kupendra Reddy elected.

Hockey India CEO Elena Norman on Tuesday said the work environment in HI was «suffocating» and she had no choice but to call it quits. After holding the position for 13 years, Norman resigned and even though HI did not reveal the specific reasons for her decision in its official statement, the Australian spoke out on what pushed her to exit. «Absolutely, it was getting tough to deliver in the fight between two factions. The environment was becoming suffocating,» Norman told PTI in an interview. «There are two factions in Hockey India. There is (President) Dilip Tirkey and I and there is (Secretary) Bholanath Singh, (Executive Director) Cdr. R K Srivastava and (Treasurer) Sekar J Manoharan,» she said.

Nirmala Sitharaman and Jaishankar) will contest the Lok Sabha elections. It has not been decided yet from where they will fight, whether it is in Karnataka or some other state," Joshi told reporters on Monday. When questioned if the Union Ministers will contest from Bengaluru, Joshi, who holds the Coal and Mines portfolio, said he cannot answer it since nothing has been finalised yet.

Rajya Sabha Polls: Elections will be held to elect 15 Rajya Sabha candidates in three states - Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh - on February 27. Polling will be held for 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, four in Karnataka and one seat in Himachal Pradesh from 9 am to 4 pm. The counting will also be held today from 5 pm onwards.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the principal Opposition Samajwadi Party, seemed to have enough members in the UP state assembly to elect seven and three Rajya Sabha MPs, respectively. However, the BJP forced a contest at the last moment by fielding its eighth candidate, thus necessitating an election. The eighth BJP candidate, Sanjay Seth, filed his nomination papers at 1:30 pm, just ahead of the 3 pm close of nominations on February 15.

Samajwadi Party did not attend a meeting called by party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday, a day before the voting for the Rajya Sabha elections. A senior SP leader requesting anonymity said that the party chief had called a meeting to brief the MLAs about the voting process of the Rajya Sabha elections. However, chief whip of the party in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Manoj Pandey and seven other MLAs — Mukesh Verma, Maharaji Prajapati, Pooja Pal, Rakesh Pandey, Vinod Chaturvedi, Rakesh Pratap Singh and Abhay Singh did not attend the meeting. Speaking to PTI, SP's national spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary accepted that eight MLAs did not attend the dinner and meeting called by party chief Akhilesh Yadav. However, he did not name the MLAs. On a question whether Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) leader Pallavi Patel, who is an SP MLA, attended the meeting, Chaudhary said that though she was not in the meeting, she had a separate meeting with Yadav. She also assured her support to the SP candidates in the Rajya Sabha elections, Chaudhary said.

Manish Sisodia, who completed one year in jail on Monday, spends most of his time inside his cell reading books from the library, playing badminton and reading the Bhagvad Gita, a Tihar jail official said. Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) in connection with the Delhi Excise Policy scam on February 26, 2023. He was later arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) also in the case and then sent to the Tihar jail. Sisodia is presently lodged in Tihar jail number 1, where he stays in his separate cell shared with two more inmates, who are lodged in non-heinous cases, official sources said. Tihar has 16 jails. All the cells, wards and barracks in the jails are heavily mounted with CCTV cameras installed by the prison authorities.

Congress on Monday described the killing of Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD) Haryana unit president Nafe Singh Rathee as the state's «first political murder» and demanded a probe into the incident either by a high court judge or a high court judge-monitored CBI investigation. Senior Congress leader Raghuvir Singh Kadian said Rathee's death was not natural. «It is a political murder and the first such incident in Haryana after it was carved out as a separate state (in 1966),» Kadian said in the Assembly. At the beginning of the day's proceedings, the Haryana Assembly paid tributes to former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi, who died recently.

Read more here Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation at the Narendra Modi Stadium in the Motera area of Ahmedabad on Thursday. PM Modi in his speech said, "Our focus is on welfare of small farmers". The prime minister added that, “The large scale on which this organization of small animal farmers is working today is the power of organization, the power of cooperation".

Akhilesh Yadav had cleared that he would only join the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra if the parties agreed to a seat-sharing arrangement. Apart from its two bastions- Raebareli and Amethi, the SP will support Congress candidates in Varanasi, Kanpur Nagar, Fatehpur Sikri, Basgaon, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Maharajganj, Amroha, Jhansi, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Sitapur, Barabanki, and Deoria. The seat-sharing arrangement also covers Madhya Pradesh where Congress has left the Khajuraho seat for SP.

Tripura's capital Agartala as member Bajrang Dal staged a protest following an incident at a private Christian missionary-run school in Agartala. It is alleged that a student was forbade from wearing a 'Hindu religious symbol'-adorned bracelet and confiscated it. It sparked an outrage. The school authorities, acknowledging the incident as «unfortunate,» reinstated the bracelet on the student's hand after the protest.

that discussion must continue and "we must find a solution to it peacefully..." ALSO WATCH: What Are Protesting Farmers Demanding From The Government "Everyone has their opinion and everyone is free raise their issues...It's natural for a person to get upset during discussions over those issues, but were are constantly trying that remain in touch, hold discussions to achieve our target with everyone's support," Arjun Munda told news agency ANI. The minister comment came a day before the farmers' union decided to resume their ‘Delhi Chalo’ march.

Tejashwi Yadav on February 20 slammed Janata Dal (United) leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his "sudden change in allegiance" that cost the JD(U) its grip on power in the state and lost Yadav his post as Deputy CM, PTI reported. Yadav was referring to Kumar's flip-flop with the Congress-led INDIA alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections this year. He held the DyCM post for close to 17 months before Kumar left the INDIA Alliance and re-joined the BJP-led NDA.

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday will embark on a whirlwind tour of Bihar, during which he is likely to cover all 38 districts of the state within a span of 11 days. Evocatively titled 'Jan Vishwas Yatra', a mass outreach programme aimed at winning «public trust», Yadav, who recently lost the deputy chief minister's post, will commence the tour from Muzaffarpur. He is scheduled to address two more public meetings, in Sitamarhi and Sheohar, before reaching Motihari, the town where East Champaran district is headquartered, for a night halt. On the eve of the commencement of the tour, Yadav went live on Facebook late on Monday evening when he called Chief Minister Nitish Kumar an «old-fashioned leader who would do well to give up his chair on his own».

onion supply until it harvests the next kharif crop, said industry representatives. This will mark a reversal from the current scenario with the country facing a glut in supplies of the bulb vegetable and stable prices amid an export ban. The industry representatives warned of a 30% drop in rabi harvest, potentially leading to a spike in onion prices around Ramadan in early March. Erratic monsoons in 2023, which caused deficient rainfall in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and several other states in peninsular India, have impacted production of key staple foods like pulses, sugar, and onions.

Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said Congress and Aam Aadmi Party had "mutually agreed" to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Punjab separately and there is no bitterness between the two parties over the issue. “In Punjab, the Congress and AAP have mutually agreed to contest the polls separately. There is no hostility over this," NDTV quoted the Delhi Chief Minister as saying.

You can make traditional Indian snacks like pakoras, bhajis, and sev using besan. It can also be used to make savory pancakes called besan chilla or pudla. Besan is also a key ingredient in making sweets like besan laddoo and Mysore Pak. Additionally, it can be used to make a gluten-free alternative to regular flour in dishes like besan roti or besan cheela. The possibilities with besan are endless, making it a staple in many cuisines around the world.

PTI. He further expressed strong condemnation for what he described as a deviation from the cultural and traditional values expected from students of the college. According to an NDTV report, the college authorities explained that the idol adhered to traditional sculpture forms observed in Hindu temples and had no intention to offend religious sentiments.

₹1.63 crore, as reported by Business Today. Amitabh Bachchan's net worth, on the other hand, has been reported as ₹273.74 crore for the same year. Last seen in the movie Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, Jaya, declared in the affidavit that she has a bank balance of ₹10.11 crore.

ShiromAkali Dal (SAD) Chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday rendered support to farmers who have embarked on the 'Delhi Chalo' protest and appealed to the central government to fulfil the demands of the cultivators. In post on X, the SAD chief also appealed to Aam Adami Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to give MSP on 17 crops including wheat and paddy as promised by them to farmers earlier. «I appeal to Govt of India to immediately fulfil all the commitments already made to farmers. We also demand that @ArvindKejriwal and @BhagwantMann must honour their solemn commitment to give MSP on 17 crops including wheat and paddy as promised by them to farmers earlier,» he said.