Floral tributes paid to Indira Gandhi in Parl
New Delhi: A host of leaders led by lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and including Congress president Sonia Gandhi paid floral tributes to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary in the Central Hall of Parliament. A booklet containing the profile of Indira Gandhi, brought out in Hindi and English by the lok Sabha Secretariat, was also presented to the dignitaries who attended the function.
Rahul holds talk with Bihar Congress MlAs
New Delhi: Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday held confabulations with newly-elected party MlAs from Bihar, who overwhelmingly favoured party’s participation in the Government headed by Chief Minister-designate Nitish Kumar. In the meeting, which was attended by all the 27 MlAs and five MlCs, Rahul, who is keen to strengthen party organisation in the State, asked them to focus not only in their constituencies but in the entire state to rebuild Congress.
New Delhi: The Election Commission has issued a fresh set of instructions on use of “none of the above” option in the Rajya Sabha and state legislative council elections. Noting several discrepancies in the past election that led to rejection of ballot, the Commission’s latest directive suggests that if the voter’s first preference is for NOTA, followed by second and third preferences against name of any candidate, the ballot paper will stand rejected. However, if NOTA is the second or third preference, it will not be rejected and the first preference for the candidate will be accepted.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court today asked the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) to put in the public domain within three days the gradation of deemed universities done by it.
New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the country’s economic policy has “no sense of direction” after the Modi government decided to scrap the Planning Commission. Singh also dismissed as “malicious” propaganda that no development had taken place during previous Congress regimes.
Corrigendum
This is with reference to November 19 news report related to Ministry of Home Affair’s fresh affidavit clarifying its earlier statement on BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s “hate speech”. The report was inadvertently carried under headline SC backtracks on Swamy’s ‘hate speech’. The headline should have been “MHA backtracks on Swamy’s ‘hate speech’”. We regret the inadvertent error.