Sena sources said Thackeray's son Uddhav will not be present during the meeting.
Justice Babu is the 34th Chief Justice of independent India. He will hold the office only for 31 days as he is due to retire on June 1.
Aam Aadmi Party termed BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as "an autocrat and dictator in his party" and claimed that even senior BJP leaders L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi have "no say" before him.
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This came out in the Lok Sabha when Speaker Manohar Joshi congratulated him on his new assignment.
In the midst of a thaw in relations between India and Pakistan, authorities in India are considering whether the Vigyan Rail, a science exhibition on wheels, could go to Pakistan and Bangladesh.
CBI counsel S S Gandhi, however, said the CBI had, 'oral evidence' against all the eight accused persons, including Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharti.
The resolution was approved by a voice vote after a verbal duel between the opposition and treasury benches over the legislative competence of Parliament to put a state subject to vote.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday named 72 more candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, including Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Anurag Singh Thakur, and former chief ministers Manohar Lal Khattar, Trivendra Singh Rawat and Basavaraj Bommai.
The party's executive president Uddhav Thackeray made this clear on the opening day of the two-day conclave of Sena office-bearers in Aurangabad.
Toeing the line of other IIMs, Indian Institute of Management-Lucknow on Wednesday decided to charge Rs 130,000 per annum as tuition this year and announced a fee waiver to students whose family income is below Rs 200,000 a year.
Here are the key figures among the 32 accused in the Babri mosque demolition case who were on Wednesday acquitted by a special CBI court in Lucknow of all charges.
Nitin A Gokhale, Co-founder, BharatShakti.in and long-time Rediff.com contributor, remembers a most unusual politician.
A notice of adjournment will also be given on the situation in UP, and it will be left to Speaker Manohar Joshi to decide which one to take up.
'There is uncertainty regarding job opportunities for our children after they serve for just four years under the Agnipath scheme.'
On October 5, 2019, the sessions court hearing the matter had said that as per Supreme Court orders, all evidence has to be presented before December 24, 2019, which would be the last working day.
There is also speculation within the BJP that its national president J P Nadda, whose extended tenure will end by this month and who was among the leaders meeting Modi, may also be brought back in the government.
Signalling both change and continuity, India's new government, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a third consecutive term, got into work gear on Tuesday with cabinet ministers and ministers of state filing into their respective offices to assume charge.
Every corner of the town has a police personnel standing while various security teams such as bomb disposal squads have been deployed.
Jailed MLA of Quami Ekta Dal Mukhtar Ansari will withdraw his candidature from Varanasi against BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, "to strengthen secular forces and avoid division of votes".
While directing the accused to present themselves in person, the judge had said no application for adjournment or exemption from personal appearance shall be entertained.
Birla, 57, has been MLA from Rajasthan thrice and MP twice.
Mohan Rawale, a five-time former MP from Mumbai south central, was expelled from the Shiv Sena on Monday, days after his meeting with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, in an apparent clamp down on dissidence.
Among the new entrants to the Union cabinet, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been given the agriculture and rural development portfolios, Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda the health portfolio and former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar the power portfolio.
'Modi knows the people here are opposed to this project, but he is using the might of government to push this port down our throats.'
The 'flaming torch' symbol was used by the Sena in the past during civic body and assembly polls.
The special court is hearing the 1992 demolition cases, including the one against BJP leaders L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti.
'I don't come from a political family.' 'I have one man, my grandfather, who is in politics.'
Calling the Bharatiya Janata Party communal, activist Anna Hazare on Friday said he never described Narendra Modi as secular.
Behind its high-decibel campaign, powered by well-organised party machinery, the BJP also appears to have made a slight departure from its 'next generation' approach to stay ahead of an aggressive Congress and enhance its prospects of securing a majority of seats.
The BJP maintained that stability in economic growth and economic policies of the government along with strong currency attracts foreign investment.
Names of BJP veterans like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi also do not figure in the list.
Sources said that Shah had a detailed discussion with him on Modigate.
