Politics

Sources said the groups are collecting anywhere between Rs 1,000 to Rs 1 lakh a day, and Rs 3,000 to Rs 7,000 from every passenger vehicle, depending on the carrying capacity.

Congress spokesperson Ajay Maken alleged that the BJP has violated every rule in the statute and used every unethical trick, including misuse of probe agencies, to remain in power in the northeastern state.

The Congress general secretary in-charge eastern Uttar Pradesh has accused the Yogi Adityanath government of indulging in propaganda instead of dealing with the contagion.

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh was the Jitendra Kumar of the Manmohan Singh government. His vintage rustic performance lent a aura and appeal to Rural Development ministry.

The CWC passed a resolution on the COVID-19 situation after a meeting, which was attended by the party's top brass, including Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and former party president Rahul Gandhi.

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal the "huge hike" in fuel prices over the past 16 days was "causing stress" to the country's economy, which is still reeling from the effect of the lockdown.

The fuel prices are now at a four-and-a-half month high in India even as crude oil rates have slumped below the USD 40 a barrel mark, he said.

He said there should be no politics by anyone in fighting these two wars. Kejriwal's remarks come amid criticism of the Centre by the Congress over the situation in eastern Ladakh.

In her letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, Karat said that many of those incarcerated are in fragile health and the delay in investigation is taking a toll on them.

I have swelling and pus from the retina to brain, Pragya Thakur said. Adding she lost vision from one eye.

Addressing virtual 'Jan Samwad' rally of BJP workers from Nagpur in Maharashtra, Gadkari said the challenge posed by COVID-19 is nothing compared to the challenges faced and overcame by India before and after Independence.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark that no outsider was inside Indian territory in Ladakh, had practically left everyone "baffled and bewildered".

China was responsible for the coronavirus pandemic and now it was taking advantage of the situation and trying to build pressure on the border, the chief minister stated.

Other prominent leaders to enter Rajya Sabha for the first time include M Thambidurai (former deputy speaker of Lok Sabha), KC Venugopal and KR Suresh Reddy former speaker of composite Andhra Pradesh.

In August 2019, Kolhapur, Sangli districts and some other parts of the state faced unprecedented floods triggered by huge release of water from dams in western Maharashtra and from the Almatti dam in Karnataka.

The Speaker's Tribunal heard the matter related to the seven Congress defectors during the day, but as per the High Court's direction no order can be pronounced till Friday.