Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, whose nomination to Rajya Sabha has been questioned by many parties, on Tuesday said he would speak in detail about accepting the offer of a seat to the Upper House after he takes oath. Briefly talking to reporters who went to meet him at his residence in Guwahati, Gogoi said “I will go to Delhi probably tomorrow.” “Let me first take oath, then I will speak in detail to the media why I accepted this and why I am going to Rajya Sabha,” he said. In a gazette notification on Monday, President Ram…
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The Congress seems to have tasked Sachin Pilot, the Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister, to ensure that Gujarat Congress does not follow the footsteps of Madhya Pradesh unit. Sachin Pilot met the Congress MLAs from Gujarat in Jaipur’s Shiv Vilas hotel on Tuesday as the party frantically tried to keep its flock together ahead of the Rajya Sabha election. The Congress had on Monday completed shifting 67 of its 68 MLAs from Gujarat to the Rajasthan capital. Five of the Congress MLAs have already resigned and the Congress, in reaction, suspended them. The party originally had 73 MLAs in the Gujarat…
Congress MLAs from Gujarat, camping in Jaipur fearing poaching by the BJP in Rajya Sabha elections, have authorised party president Sonia Gandhi to decide on the number of candidates for the March 26 polls. AICC observers on Tuesday held meetings with Gujarat MLAs, who are camping in Jaipur, to seek their opinion on number of candidates for the RS polls. They met the MLAs both individually and in groups. “A proposal has been passed unanimously authorising party president Sonia Gandhi to decide the number of candidates for elections. The observers will be going to Delhi to meet Gandhi,” the party…
Jharkhand High Court has been added into the long list of offices and services being shut down for a few days to avoid the spread of deadly novel coronavirus, also known as Covid-19. Novel coronavirus of Covid-19 has infected at least 132 people across India, claiming at least two lives since its outbreak in December. The decision to close Jharkhand HC was taken on Tuesday after a full-court meeting presided by Chief Justice of Jharkhand Dr Ravi Ranjan. Only the urgent criminal and civil case of utmost importance will be heard. Several governments have asked their offices to keep the…
The total number of positive novel coronavirus cases has reached 11 in Karnataka, the state which registered the first death of a Covid-19 patient in India earlier this month. The 11th patient is a 67-year-old woman who had come back from the United States via Goa on March 9. A resident of Bengaluru, the woman has been under a strict home quarantine since her arrival, an official communication said. The woman has a history of a kidney ailment. On March 16, the patient was shifted to a designated isolation hospital. The administration has identified 21 high-risk contacts, including five family…
As the government adopts social distancing measures to contain the spread of coronavirus in India, authorities in IT hub Gurugram have asked companies to allow employees to work from home. The Gurugram administration has issued an advisory to MNCs, BPOs and corporate offices to let their employees work from home. As per the advisory, employees should be allowed to work from home till March 31. Invoking sections of the Epidemic Disease Act 1897, the advisory reads, “All MNCs, IT firms, industries, BPOs, corporate offices situated in district Gurugram are advised to allow their officer/employees to work from home till March…
Winning your polling booth in the upcoming March 22 Zilla Panchayat polls, would be a true tribute to former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, state BJP chief Sadanand Shet Tanavde told party workers on the occasion of the former Defence Minister’s first death anniversary on Tuesday. “Ahead of the March 22 ZP polls, I want to tell all workers, that they should resolve to win their booth. This will be a true shradhanjali to Parrikar,” Tanavade told reporters on the sidelines of a formal function held in the state BJP office in Panaji on occasion of Parrikar’s first death anniversary. Parrikar…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (17 March) postponed the hearing to Wednesday on a plea by nine Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs seeking floor test in the Madhya Pradesh (MP) assembly. The SC issued a notice to the MP government, the Congress, and the MP assembly speaker in order to inform them regarding the hearing to take place tomorrow. BJP MLAs including former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had moved the SC after the MP assembly speaker N P Prajapati had adjourned the house until 26 March amid the Coronavirus scare. However, the BJP alleged that the Congress was trying…
In yet another controversy in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Tuesday, black ink has been thrown on a newly placed campus road named V.D Savarkar Marg. A road sign inside the JNU campus recently named after Veer Savarkar has been found vandalised. The name V D Savarkar was glossed over using black paint and a poster with the words, “Muhammed Ali Jinnah Marg” was pasted at the side of it. A picture of the same was shared by columnist and Assistant Delhi University professor Abhinav Prakash who called it a handiwork of left-wing vandals. Incidentally, the signboard had been…
Microsoft has achieved a milestone when Windows 10 has come to dominate the space, hitting a goal of 1 billion devices. Among the devices that run Microsoft Windows 10 are about 80,000 laptop and 2-in1 models produced by over 1,000 manufacturers, apart from which variants of the OS are used by Xbox consoles and HoloLens and will be a part of the upcoming Xbox Series X. According to Microsoft, 100 per cent of Fortune 500 companies and one in seven people around the world use Windows 10 devices. When it comes to desktop operating systems Microsoft’s rival Apple comes a…