In Sync With Chandrababu, Nitish Kumar Keeps His Own Special Status Demand Before NITI Aayog
The Bihar chief minister demanded the release of Rs 2,600 crore as Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF), which he claimed was due to his state.from Top Politics News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2Mxtvqr
Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the BJP administration would remind Muslims of the schemes the government started for their development and the efforts it made against 'triple talaq'.
Mamata Banerjee, Chandrababu Naidu, HD Kumaraswamy and Pinarayi Vijayan met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the NITI Aayog meet on Sunday.
The chief minister also spoke about “Rythu Bhima Yojana” or insurance scheme for farmers, which will be launched on August 15 and will cover about 50 lakh farmers in the state.
Nearly 65,000 'cyber warriors' of the BJP are all set to take on 'Rajiv Ke Sipahi' of the Congress in cyber space to woo young voters on social media platforms in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls.
KCR’s absence raised eyebrows among political circles because he was the first among opposition leaders to moot the idea of a federal front ahead of the 2019 elections.
NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer Amitabh Kant on Sunday dismissed reports that L-G Anil Baijal attended the think tank’s meeting in place of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday.
The Delhi drama had offered the Congress the perfect opportunity to corner the BJP, but the grand old party did not seem too keen on supporting the AAP.
Rajnath Singh said while the forces had exercised exemplary restraint, terrorists indulged in wanton killing of innocent civilians and attacks on security personnel.
The NITI Aayog meeting will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and may be used by the four chief ministers — Mamata Banerjee, Chandrababu Naidu, Pinarayi Vijayan and HD Kumaraswamy — to seek central intervention in ending the impasse between Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal.
The party said it did not directly or indirectly support ‘Referendum 2020’, allegedly promoted by a Canada-based Sikh organisation.
While the GDP growth rate was 8.2 percent in 2015-16, it was 6.7 percent in 2017-18.
Senior BJP leader Vijay Goel said the four leaders "are in the national capital to attend the NITI Aayog meeting and not to do politics. It doesn't suit them".
If there is a message in here for the BJP, there is also one for the Congress – you, too, are dispensable in a federal front.
In an interview to CNN-News18, Arvind Kejriwal said the Narendra Modi government had snatched away all powers from them.
The four heads of their states visited Kejriwal’s home on Saturday and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention on issues over which he is on a sit-in at Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal's office.
For the study, published in the journal <em>Scientific Reports</em>, the researchers examined a group -- which then comprised 129 one-year-olds and their parents -- in 1998.
Devon Smith battled disciplined bowling and frequent stoppages for rain to compile an unbeaten half-century as the West Indies reached 118 for two in reply to Sri Lanka's first innings total of 253 on a truncated second day of the second Test at the Darren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia on Friday
A new-look Australia had their moments in the first ODI, but it's England who head into the Cardiff clash with a 1-0 lead.
Catch all the action of the day two of the second Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka through our live commentary.
Stand-in-skipper Ajinkya Rahane and opener Shikhar Dhawan heaped praise on Afghanistan despite the visitors succumbing to one of the heaviest defeats in the history of the Test cricket in Bengaluru on Friday.
It isn’t just the path they’ve taken to Test status that makes Afghan cricket an anomaly. Most emerging nations could boast of one or two quality batsmen when they came on the scene. It was the bowling that invariably let them down. Ironically, given the reputation as no country for pace bowlers, it was India that bucked that trend when they played their first Test in England in 1932
The tech giant posted 239.6 trillion won in sales in 2017, up 18.6 per cent on-year. Its operating profit shot up 83.6 per cent over the cited period to 53.6 trillion won.
Hey, Google, order a large pizza! Alexa, I need vitamins!
According to a report in The Independent on Saturday, Google acknowledged the issue by saying it had "more to do" in order to properly address it and had put dedicated teams in place to do so.
The world's wealthiest inhabitants are being offered the chance to live in space for 10 days aboard the International Space Station in a Philippe Starck-designed habitation module, wearing Moncler-designed flight suits.
Concept art for a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) version of WhatsApp showed up on Behance before being promptly removed.
Google is stepping up its investments across Asia, where a rapidly growing middle class and a lack of infrastructure in retail, finance and other areas have made it a battleground for U.S. and Chinese internet giants.
In testing, people mistook the fake eyes-opened photos for real ones or said they couldn't be sure which was which, more than half the time, the TechCrunch report said.
This is in stark contrast to double digit growth posted in the years after 2007, when Apple first launched its iPhone.
Television personality Oprah Winfrey has agreed to produce shows for Apple as the iPhone maker prepares to make a push into original content.
The facility will also have an integrated lab for IoT, Analytics and Mobility, a 3DX lab to develop 3D experiences, a Systems Integration Lab and a Proof of Concepts Lab.
Fed funds rate futures are pricing in a little over 50 percent chance of two more rate hikes this year, a small change from around 50 percent priced in before the Fed's decision.
Australia coach Bert van Marwijk said his gutsy team should count themselves just plain unlucky to have gone down 2-1 to France in their World Cup opener on Saturday and can look forward with confidence to their remaining Group C matches
Cannabis oil is banned in Britain. Border Force agents seized it from Charlotte Caldwell, the boy's mother, when she tried to bring it into London's Heathrow Airport on Monday from Canada, where she obtained it legally.
The chief minister's secretariat, in a press release, has contended Gadkari's claim and said the state government was providing all possible assistance to ensure timely completion of projects.
A day before attending the Niti Aayog meet in New Delhi, Banerjee, Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy landed in New Delhi and met at Andhra Bhawan before heading to Kejriwal's residence.
New US research has found that middle-age and older women who are naturally early to bed and early to rise may have a lower risk of depression than those who are night owls.