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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged the whole “tamasha” around his remarks in the UK ha
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged the whole “tamasha” around his remarks in the UK has been created by the government to divert attention from the Adani issue and asserted it is a “test of Indian democracy” as to whether he would be allowed to respond to the allegations by the BJP in Parliament.
On Friday, President Droupadi Murmu will visit spiritual guru Mata Amritanandamayi’s Math in Kollam. On the same day, she will attend a civic reception to be hosted in her honour in Thiruvananthapuram.
The Budget session of the Delhi Assembly, starting Friday, is likely to witness heated exchanges between the treasury and opposition benches, with the ruling AAP targeting LG V K Saxena and the Centre over the arrest of Manish Sisodia and the BJP bringing a no-confidence motion against the Arvind Kejriwal government.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is scheduled to be in the city on Friday to attend his party’s two-day-long national executive and will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence, party sources said on Thursday.
The government employees have been on strike in Maharashtra in order to seek restoration of the Old Pension Scheme. As the strike entered its third day on Thursday, it emerged that the state government appointed private agencies to fill up vacancies on a contractual basis, news agency PTI has reported.
As thousands of farmers continued their march to Mumbai on Thursday to press their demands, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said his meeting with their representatives went well and the government would make a statement in the legislature on the issue.
Dairy farmers across Tamil Nadu, supplying milk to State owned enterprise Aavin, on Thursday announced to launch indefinite strike from Friday threatening to withdraw supply if the procurement price is not hiked by Rs 7 per litre.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.