Lok Sabha, on Monday, unanimously passed the 122nd Constitutional Amendment Bill as amended by the Rajya Sabha with all 443 members voting in favour. AIADMK leader P.Venugopal led a walk out of party MPs after the party was not satisfied with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s clarifications on GST Bill.
» Read moreSwamy Prasad Maurya, formerly with the Mayawati led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) joined the BJP on Monday in the presence of BJP president Amit Shah, BJP general secretary in charge of UP Om Mathur, state unit chief Keshav Prasad Maurya, senior leaders Rameshwar Chaurasia and Shrikant Sharma. Welcoming him to the party, Mr Keshav Prasad Maurya said that his namesake […]
» Read moreA former Maoist turned gangster was killed on Monday during an exchange of fire with police in Telangana’s Shadnagar town, officials said. Nayeem, who was accused of killing a police officer and many former Maoist leaders, was in a four-wheeler which was intercepted by a police team. While the driver managed to escape, Nayeem opened fire on police, who returned […]
» Read moreA school in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad that apparently never allowed the singing of the national anthem deeming it “un-Islamic”, has been shut down and its manager has been arrested after several teachers resigned over his refusal to allow the anthem this Independence Day. Zia-Ul Haq, the manager of the MA Convent School, has been arrested under a law against “Insults […]
» Read moreAt least 55 people were killed and 100 injured, mostly lawyers, injured on Monday when a bomb ripped through a hospital in Quetta in Pakistan’s restive south-western Balochistan province followed by gunfire. The loud explosion was heard as lawyers brought the body of president of Balochistan Bar Association (BA) advocate Bilal Anwar Kasi, who was gunned down by unidentified assailants earlier […]
» Read moreThe Goods and Services (GST) Bill will be taken up by Lok Sabha on Monday. The GST, the biggest economic reform since 1991, is likely to sail through smoothly in the Lower House. The GST Bill will replace a raft of different state and local taxes with a single unified value added tax system. This will in effect turn the […]
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