Politics

On July 2, 2017, Madhya Pradesh government had carried out a 12-hour drive to plant 6.67 crore saplings in the banks of river Narmada in order to create a Guinness World Record entry.

43-year-old ex-MLA Thakor resigned on July 5, apparently after voting against Congress candidates in the Rajya Sabha bypolls.

The Congress is yet to decide on its new president after Rahul Gandhi made his resignation public, taking moral responsibility for the party's Lok Sabha poll debacle.

The CPI, BSP and NCP were facing the prospects of losing their national party status after their dismal performance in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as well.

The two rebel MLAs had called up the Assembly Secretary's office and informed that they will not be able to appear Monday and sought another date, assembly secretariat sources said.

The minister, Sajjan Singh Verma said that if the dog squad’s capability can be put to better use in some other places, it is no harm to transfer them.

Opposition BJP reiterated that the coalition has lost majority and demanded that Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy resign immediately or seek a trust vote on Monday itself.

The decision came after all three members of the GFP, including Vijai Sardesai who was deputy chief minister in the Pramod Sawant cabinet, were dropped and replaced by three of the 10 MLAs who last week switched over from the Congress to the BJP.

The post of general secretary of the organisation holds a lot of importance in the BJP-RSS. In the past, it has been held by leaders like Sundar Singh Bhandari, KN Govindacharya, Narendra Modi and Sanjay Joshi.

Senior Congress leaders began back-channel negotiations to persuade the disgruntled MLAs who have resigned from the Assembly.

Ten Congress MLAs had on Wednesday joined the BJP, increasing the strength of the party to 27 on the floor of the House.

On Friday, four of the 14 legislators had visited the Siddhivinayak temple in central Mumbai and offered prayers to Lord Ganesh. Today the rebel MLAs left for Shirdi in a private plane. They will return later in the day.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay said, the government should, instead, look at railway bridges which are over 100 years old as it involves safety and security of passengers.

Tamil Nadu fisheries minister D Jayakumar quipped that the Virat Kohli-led team could have won had he played in the squad.

Agriculture sector, the backbone of the state's economy, presented a dismal picture, registering negative growth in four fiscals though the overall GDP for the year 2018-19 was expected to be Rs 9,33,402 crore as per advanced estimates, he said.

At the meeting, Amarinder Singh ordered a crackdown against power theft to check losses to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), particularly in the areas bordering Pakistan and Haryana.