Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday demanded an additional portfolio in the new government even as the Congress was busy finalising its list of ministers
I will try to give a clean and transparent government to the people, says Maharshtra Chief Minister Designate Prithviraj Chavan.
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The Congress has asked Jammu and Kashmir Public Works Department Minister G M Saroori to step down in the wake of the controversy surrounding his daughter, who is accused of using a girl to impersonate for her during a medical entrance exam.
Meanwhile, the coastal districts of Maharashtra have been put on alert as the oil slick has spread to Alibaug and Uran areas, and also close to Elephanta caves amid concerns that it may also damage the rich mangrove belt along the coastline.
South-west monsoon is likely to be below normal this season, government announced on Wednesday raising concerns about its impact on agriculture and economy.
The Indian Space Research Organisation has bagged commercial contracts to build two communication satellites for European customers.
The meeting also includes some of Sonia Gandhi's close associates and is the first effort by the Congress leadership for a reproachment with those who raised questions over the leadership.
The new entrants will be welcomed into the party by All India Congress Committee general secretary Prithviraj Chavan in the KPCC office, party state general secretary M Ramachandrappa told PTI in Bangalore.
The Thackerays called on Pawar, a Rajya Sabha MP, after he arrived in Mumbai from New Delhi in the evening.
Minister of State in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan said India needed to have international cooperation to acquire uranium technology and fuel which is insufficient in the country. Noting that all countries in the world had uranium-based nuclear programmes, he said that India is deficient in the fuel and whatever reserves existed would be exhausted after some time. He allayed the impression that the government was not exploiting thorium, which is available in sufficient quantity.
Southwest monsoon, critical for the farm-based economy of the country, is expected to reach Kerala on May 30, two days before its normal onset date in the coastal state.
The Congress met Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur on Monday and urged him to dismiss the Kumaraswamy-led state government. Congress leaders also asked Thakur to impose President's rule in Karnataka. During the meeting, Congress legislators submitted individual letters to Thakur stating that they will not support any party in government formation.
Dissatisfied with the steps taken by Pakistan to curb terrorism, the Centre on Wednesday said New Delhi will pressurise Islamabad to hand over wanted criminals to be tried under Indian law. "The Indian government is not satisfied with the steps taken by Pakistan to deal with terrorism so far," Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan told reporters in Jammu.
Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of State in the Prime Minister's office
Minister of State for Home Affairs in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan told newsmen in New Delhi that there was no political vendetta by the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad investigating the Malegoan blasts in which sadhavi Pragya Singh Thakur and Lieutenant Colonel Srikant Purohit and some others have been picked up for interrogation.
'If you compare the record of the BJP and NDA government they have a pathetic record of tackling terrorism, still they kept on talking about the recent incidents. They had no other issue to talk about because their performance in the Karnataka government was pathetic so they kept talking about national issues in the assembly elections.'
Two persons were killed and three injured when a major fire broke out at a multi-storeyed building, housing the Science and Technology Ministry, near Parliament in New Delhi on Thursday evening, gutting a portion of the third floor of the structure.
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chavan said sending a spacecraft to Mars would help in understanding the evolution of the planet by studying the Martian atmosphere and ionosphere.
The government on Friday said it has identified five to seven sites to set up nuclear parks, each with a capacity to house at least six atomic power plants.
Mumbai was excluded from the 20 per cent cut in power tariff charged to domestic consumers, industries and power looms by the state-run Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MahaVitaran), he lamented while addressing his supporters.
Former Union minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel on Thursday filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha election in Maharashtra slated for June 19.
The Indian Space Research Organisation has entered into an agreement with a private company to set up automatic weather stations, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday
Even as the race for the Congress president's post is hotting up, its veteran leader and Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh on Friday said he is not interested in becoming the party chief.
Considering the economic downturn, the banking sector should help strengthen the cooperative sector to encourage small and medium industries and create jobs, Chavan said.
The country's installed nuclear power capacity will increase from the present 4,120 MW to 7,280 MW by 2011 with the completion of the projects under construction, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
The two-day deliberations, which will be held at Grand Hyatt in the suburbs, will begin in the evening of August 31 and from 10am on September 1. The meeting will be followed by a press conference, Raut informed.
The deputy chief minister's post may go to Ajit Pawar, sources said.
Naidu informed this to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, during a meeting at the state government's Sahyadri guest house in south Mumbai.
Congress has adopted a wait-and-watch mode in Karnataka in spite of reports suggesting that it might extend outside support to the JDS if the latter severed links with the BJP. The final decision will be taken by Sonia Gandhi when she comes back.
'We are clear the party won't protect those who are seen as culprits,' says Maharashtra Congress Chief Manekrao Thakre.
Government plans to set up more atomic energy plants with latest safeguards available in the international market and construction work on eight reactors is in progress, the Rajya Sabha was informed Thursday.
The government Wednesday asserted that no inspections by the Internatioal Atomic Energy Agency are being carried out in any of the R&D institutions in India.
A huge 52.82 per cent of the scientists recruited in 2006 have left the Indian Space Research Organisation for the private sector, citing better remunerative packages
'Unlike in the sporting arena, where sports federations moved from partisan to impartial referees, in Indian democracy's biggest festival, it appears we are moving backward from unbiased and objective to one-sided and partisan,' observes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay.
Pawar, who was also the deputy CM in the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, which was in power from November 2019 to June 2022, enjoys the image of a grassroot leader and an able administrator.
The government on Wednesday said it favoured a dual pricing system for domestic cooking gas.
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