Farm Laws Repeal Bill cleared both houses of Parliament on November 29. Sanyukt Kisan Morcha has called an emergency meeting on December 1 for the same. 32 farm unions from Punjab will be also meeting on the same day and it is being speculated that further agenda on the end of the ongoing protests will be discussed.
The suspension is in connection with an incident during the Monsoon Session. Earlier on August 11, unruly scenes were witnessed in Rajya Sabha when Opposition MPs climbed on the officials' table, waved black cloth, and threw files.
Amarinder Singh had floated his new party Punjab Lok Congress soon after leaving the Congress after stepping down as chief minister of Punjab. Punjab is scheduled to go for Assembly polls in 2022.
The TMC's rebuttal to the Congress came days after Kharge, the leader of opposition in the Rajya Sabha, had said the grand old party would coordinate with all opposition camps, including the TMC, during the winter session.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing an important meeting on the Covid situation and the vaccination drive in the country with top officials, government sources said on Saturday. The meeting comes amid rising global concerns over a new strain of the coronavirus which the World Health Organization has named 'Omicron' and classified as a highly transmissible virus of concern.
The MC12 conference at WTO headquarters in Geneva was set to take up key issues like a long-awaited agreement on subsidies for fisheries, seen as a major way to prevent overfishing in the world’s seas, and an effort to waive patent and other intellectual property protections linked to COVID vaccines.
Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga had said on Thursday that both the state governments "will try" to increase the fencing all along the border.
The new variant has been red-flagged by scientists over an alarmingly high number of spike mutations that might make the virus more resistant to vaccines, increase its transmissibility and lead to more severe COVID-19 symptoms.
To take on BJP-led Central govt, Congress is also planning to strongly raise issues of 'COVID mismanagement' in public forums and in the upcoming winter session of Parliament.
Describing the situation in Tripura under the Biplab Deb-led BJP government as "atrocious", Banerjee wondered why the human rights commission was "not taking a note of the ongoing use of brute force" in the Northeastern state.
The five states where polling will be held early next include Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
Congress is holding an important meeting in the Congress War Room in Delhi. Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi and Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu are also present in this meeting. It is being speculated that the agenda of this meeting is to decide the strategy for the upcoming Punjab polls.
Despite the prime minister's surprise announcement, farmer leaders have maintained the protesters won't budge until the three contentious laws are formally repealed in Parliament.
Entire Uttar Pradesh has been divided into areas and three top leaders have been assigned two areas each for the polls. Nadda has been assigned the areas of Gorakhpur and Kanpur.
The Centre had in September told the Supreme Court in an affidavit that caste census of Backward Classes is administratively difficult and cumbersome and excluding such information from the purview of the exercise is a ''conscious policy decision''.
In today's meeting, the party leadership is expected to discuss BJP's upcoming programmes, campaigns, and strategy to strengthen the party and work at the ground level in the poll-bound state.
India hit back at Pakistan in the UN Security Council after Islamabad raised the Kashmir issue at the 15-nation Council.
Supreme Court directed the Centre to call for an emergency meeting tomorrow over issues like stopping construction, non-essential transport, power plants, and implementing work from home to deal with air pollution in Delhi-NCR. The matter has been adjourned for November 17.
Delhi Pollution News: Although a visible improvement in air quality in Delhi was recorded on Sunday, the Air Quality Index (AQI) remained in the 'very poor' category.
As the release of Bunty Aur Babli 2 draws closer, the film's actors Siddhant Chaturvedi, Rani Mukerji and Sharvari Wagh are currently on a promotional spree. Recently, the actors registered their presence on the sets of Bigg Boss 15, where they met the show host and megastar Salman Khan. Siddhant broke down during the Weekend Ka Vaar episode.
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