ADMK appeals to Centre for issuing visa
New Delhi: AIADMK on Friday expressed surprise over denial of visa by the Centre to a United Nations team probing human rights violations in Sri lanka and made a strong plea to grant it visa to enable it to hold a fair and just investigations. Raising the issue in the lok Sabha during Zero Hour, party leader M Thambidurai said party chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has already written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue.
ICHR chief under attack on mythological views
New Delhi: The views expressed by the newly-appointed chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) on dating mythologies like Mahabharata came under attack in the lok Sabha on Friday. Raising the issue during Zero Hour in the lok Sabha, senior TMC MP Saugata Roy alleged that the new ICHR chief, whose name was not allowed to be taken, was trying to “saffronize” education and historical research and asked the Government to “reconsider” his appointment. “The new chairman has a view on the caste system. He supports caste the system,” Roy said questioning his views on Indian history.
Govt to play proactive role on climatic issue
New Delhi: Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar has said that India would continue to play a proactive role on climate change. He said it has already announced of a voluntary 2020 mitigation goal of reducing emissions intensity of its GDP by 20-25% over 2005 levels by 2020. He stated this during a meeting with the UK Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, Edward Davey, on Friday. Both the parties discussed on various aspects including Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, Green Climate Fund and Kyoto Protocol.
sc issues notice to Election Commission
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Election Commission on a PIl which sought directions for mandatory display of photographs of people contesting elections on EVMs to curb the menace of dummy namesakes. A bench headed by Chief Justice RM lodha asked the EC to file its response within 10 weeks.