Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar said on Tuesday that the 14 MLAs who submitted resignation letters must meet him. The coalition government will lose its majority if the speaker accepts the resignations.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath set the state a target of becoming $1-trillion economy. He said the state had the resources to achieve this goal and it would help in achieving Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of turning India into a $5-trillion economy.
Donald Trump says India’s tariffs on US products are ‘no longer acceptable’
Trade relations and tariffs have been a sore point between the two countries in recent times. On June 10, Trump had said India’s tariff on American motorcycles was too high and not acceptable to him. His comments came even after India halved the tariff from 100% to 50%. Trump has claimed the United States is a bank that everyone wants to rob.
Gujarat: Cow vigilante arrested for assaulting train driver after cow is run over in Mehsana
The incident took place on Saturday when GA Jhala ignored a red flag waved by the Sidhpur junction stationmaster, and rammed the train into a cow that had jumped on to the track.
Watch: NCP workers release crabs outside Maharashtra minister Tanaji Sawant’s home
Meanwhile, members of Nationalist Congress Party’s Pune unit visited the Bharati Vidyapeeth police station and demanded that a case be filed against the crabs, Pune Mirror reported. After the minister’s comments last week, the leader of the NCP Youth Wing, Mehboob Sheikh, had sarcastically called for the crabs’s arrest.
Plea seeking to declare marital rape a ground for divorce dismissed by Delhi High Court
Advocate Anuja Kapur had filed the public interest litigation plea, requesting the court to order the Centre to frame guidelines for registration of first information reports related to cases of marital rape. She also sought appropriate punishment and penalty for marital rape. At present, marital rape is not a ground for divorce under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937, and the Special Marriage Act, 1954.
West Bengal Congress chief Somen Mitra offered to quit after Lok Sabha poll debacle, says party
The party said it had refused to accept Mitra’s resignation and requested him to continue in the post. “On May 24, during a party meeting on Lok Sabha poll results, Mitra had taken full responsibility for the party’s dismal performance and has expressed his desire to quit, but was stopped by party colleagues from doing so,” the party said.
Aadhaar Ordinance is no longer valid as Parliament has passed amended law, Centre tells Delhi HC
The central government made its submission before a bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar, challenging the plea filed by retired Army officer SG Vombatkere and human rights activist Bezwada Wilson. The petitioners have alleged that the Ordinance violates the fundamental rights of citizens guaranteed in the Constitution. They also claimed that the Ordinance “re-legislates the provisions of the Aadhaar Act 2016, which enabled commercial exploitation of personal information collected for the purpose of state”.
Cross-border infiltration has reduced 43% this year compared to first half of 2018, says Centre
Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai was responding to Bharatiya Janata Party MP Ramesh Chander Kaushik’s questions. Kaushik had asked if cross-order infiltration had abated after the surgical strike and whether the government had completed work on barbed wire fencing along borders.
TikTok suspends users who posted video on Jharkhand lynching
Members of the group – Faisal Shaikh, Hasnain Khan, Faiz Baloch, Adnan Shaikh, and Shadan Farooqui – allegedly uploaded the video. One of the members was seen saying, “You may have killed that innocent Tabrez Ansari, but tomorrow if his son takes revenge, do not say that all Muslims are terrorists.”
Karnataka crisis: Speaker says he cannot afford to make mistakes, asks rebel MLAs to meet him
Kumar told reporters in Bengaluru that legislators who want to quit would have to personally hand over their resignations. “If everything can happen through postal correspondence, I am not required at all,” he added.
Mumbai: Sanjay Nirupam lashes out at Milind Deora after Urmila Matondkar’s letter is leaked
“After making a multilingual appeal to the workers not to quarrel agaist each other, the ‘young dynast’ has planted this news to ‘stabilise’ the party,” Nirupam tweeted. “The letter was written to him on May 16 and is leaked to media yesterday. Has he learned all this from his ‘mentor’ Jaitley?”
Punjab: Rapper Honey Singh booked for objectionable lyrics in his song ‘Makhna’
The Punjab State Women Commission’s chief Manisha Gulati had last week written to the state home secretary, the Director General of Police and the Inspector General of Police demanding appropriate action against Singh for allegedly using “vulgar lyrics against women” in the song, PTI reported.
Tamil Nadu: MDMK chief Vaiko’s nomination for Rajya Sabha elections accepted
The Election Commission on Tuesday accepted the nomination of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam General Secretary Vaiko’s nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections. There was speculation that Vaiko’s nomination may be rejected since he was convicted of sedition and sentenced to a one-year prison term last week.
Delhi High Court denies Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal permission to fly abroad
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal permission to fly abroad. However, the court issued a notice to the Centre on his plea, challenging the lookout notice against him.
Supreme Court dismisses Saravana Bhavan founder’s plea for more time to surrender in murder case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by P Rajagopal, the owner of Saravana Bhavan restaurant chain, who had sought more time to surrender to serve a life sentence in a murder case. Rajagopal had cited ill health to seek more time to surrender before a court.
Parliament: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 pm after ruckus by Congress MPs over Karnataka crisis
Proceedings in the Rajya Sabha were adjourned twice on Tuesday after an uproar by Congress members over the political developments in Karnataka. The House was first adjourned till noon, and then till 2 pm within a minute of resumption of proceedings.
Ayodhya land dispute: SC says it will look into petition seeking early hearing of case
One of the original litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case moved the Supreme Court on Tuesday, seeking an early hearing, PTI reported. A three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, of the Supreme Court agreed to look into the matter.
Punjab to make NCC training compulsory for school, college students in border districts
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday announced a plan to provide compulsory training in the National Cadet Corps for students in government schools and colleges located in districts close to the border with Pakistan.
Karnataka crisis: Assembly Speaker set to consider resignations of rebel MLAs today
Karnataka Assembly Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar will return to his office in Bengaluru on Tuesday and is likely to decide on the resignation letters of 14 disgruntled MLAs of the ruling coalition in the state. The rebels had submitted their letters to Kumar’s office last week, putting the 13-month-old Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) government in jeopardy. He will meet the MLAs later in the day.
Adityanath sets $1-trillion economy target for Uttar Pradesh, says state has resources to achieve it
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath on Monday set the state a target of becoming a $1-trillion economy. Adityanath’s statement comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government was working towards making India a $5-trillion economy in the next five years.
Saravana Bhavan founder moves Supreme Court to delay life sentence in murder case
P Rajagopal, the founder of the Saravana Bhavan restaurant chain, moved the Supreme Court on Monday to delay the beginning of his life sentence in a murder case, AFP reported. Rajagopal, who was supposed to surrender before a court on Sunday, did not turn up citing ill health.
Jharkhand lynching case: High Court asks state to submit report on Tabrez Ansari’s death
Jharkhand High Court on Monday asked the state government to submit a report on the death of Tabrez Ansari who was assaulted by a mob in Seraikela Kharswan district on June 18. The court asked the state to submit the report on the action taken at the next date of the hearing, July 17.
Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh says he is ‘aghast to see the confusion’ in the party
Veteran Congress leader Karan Singh on Monday said he was “aghast to see the confusion and disorientation” into which the party had fallen since former Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s resignation. He appealed to the party’s working committee to meet under the chairmanship of former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in order to take the necessary decisions.
Kerala: Two more policemen arrested for allegedly torturing prisoner in custody
Two more policemen were arrested on Monday in connection with the alleged custodial death of a prisoner in June in Kerala’s Idukki district. With the latest arrests, a total of four police officials have been taken into custody in the case.
IMA scam: SIT arrests Bengaluru deputy commissioner on corruption charges
Deputy Commissioner of Bengaluru urban district BM Vijay Shankar was arrested on Monday in connection with the I Monetary Advisory case. The special investigation team, looking into the IMA scam, arrested Shankar on charges of receiving Rs 1.5 crore from the founder of the company.