Dealing a massive blow to his political mentor and uncle Sharad Pawar, NCP's Ajit Pawar Sunday joined the Shinde-Fadnavis government as deputy CM, inaugurating yet another chapter of the dizzying drama that has engulfed Maharashtra's politics for the past four years.
The proposed second meeting of non-BJP opposition parties, scheduled to be held at Bengaluru on July 13 and 14, has been postponed. The next date is yet to be decided. Confirming the development, JD(U) chief spokesperson K C Tyagi told TOI on Sunday that the Bengaluru meeting has been postponed. “Hopefully, the next meeting (of Opposition parties) will be convened after the monsoon session of the Parliament,” Tyagi said.
An adult tigress that was shot dead by forest staff last November on grounds that it was a man-eater after it had entered a market in Almora was not a man-eater, as per an NTCA report.
NDA's allies in the northeast have opposed a Uniform Civil Code, saying it will curb freedoms and rights in a region with 200-odd culturally diverse tribes. Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma said, "UCC goes against the actual idea of India itself" while NDPP declared Saturday that it will adversely impact "minority communities and tribal people of India".
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A commuter is now allowed to carry a maximum of two sealed liquor bottles on all lines of the Delhi Metro. This was hitherto permitted only on the Airport Express Line. However, drinking liquor on the trains and Metro premises remains prohibited.
Shiv Sena Friday reiterated its support for the UCC and demanded the state government table a resolution in favour of it in the monsoon session of the state assembly.
This is the latest in a series of relocations for senior officials of the zone in which a triple train accident on June 2 killed more than 290 people. Earlier, the Railway Board had transferred five senior zone officials, including the assistant general manager and the divisional railway manager.