Morning Digest | China announces ‘renaming’ of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh; Centre ‘appropriate’ party to respond to plea on disqualified lawmakers, says EC, and more
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China announces ‘renaming’ of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh
In its latest attempt to lay claim to areas inside the Indian territory, the Chinese government on Sunday announced it would “standardise” the names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh. Releasing a list of the 11 places along with a map that shows parts of Arunachal Pradesh instead as inside the southern Tibetan region, that China refers to as Zangnan, the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs even included a town close to the Arunachal Pradesh capital of Itanagar.
Centre ‘appropriate’ party to respond to plea on disqualified lawmakers, says EC
The Election Commission in the Supreme Court has chosen to maintain a distance on the question whether a disqualified lawmaker should be banned from contesting elections for five years. The commission said it would be “appropriate” to have the Union government deal with the issue.
Politics over communal flare-ups continues in West Bengal
While the situation was limping back to normalcy in areas affected by violence in Howrah and Hooghly, the political war of words over the communal flare-up during Ram Navami processions continued on April 3 with leaders of the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blaming each other.
Net direct tax collections up 17.63%, exceed revised estimates target