LIVE: Ilaiyaraaja, P T Usha among four nominated to Rajya Sabha, tweets PM
'The remarkable PT Usha is an inspiration for every Indian. The creative genius of Ilaiyaraaja has enthralled people across generations,' tweets PM Modi
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File photo of PM Narendra Modi with former athlete P T Usha
NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu is scheduled to arrive here late Tuesday night to seek support for the July 18 polls and will meet MPs and legislators of the ruling BJP and its allies the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the United Peoples' Party Liberal (UPPL). The NDA presidential candidate will arrive here as part of her campaign for the election. She will have a meeting with MPs and MLAs of the BJP and its allies at a city hotel here on Wednesday to seek votes, party sources here said. The BJP has nine Lok Sabha MPs and four parliamentarians in the Upper house while its allies the AGP and UPPL have one each in Rajya Sabha.
The campaigning for the first phase of urban body elections in Madhya Pradesh ended on Tuesday and the voting will be held across 133 municipal corporations in 49 districts of the state on July 6 (Wednesday), officials said. The voting will be held between 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. According to the State Election Commission (SEC), a total of 13,148 polling booths have been set up for the first phase of civic polls. The voting for the second and the last phase is scheduled to be held on July 13, and the counting would be done on July 17.
West Bengal's Covid-19 tally rose to 2,037,590 on Tuesday as 1,973 more people tested positive for the infection, a health bulletin said. Three fresh fatalities pushed the state's coronavirus death toll to 21,228, it said. The daily positivity rate shot up to 15.93 per cent as 12,385 samples were tested for Covid-19. The state had registered 1,132 cases on Monday and 1,822 infections on Sunday.
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UK PM Johnson says it wouldn't be responsible to resign now
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson defied further calls for him to step down amid a wave of government resignations, arguing it wouldn't "responsible" for him to quit right now in light of pressing domestic issues and the war in Ukraine.
"I look at the the issues that this country faces ... I look at the biggest war in Europe for 80 years," Johnson said, speaking to a parliamentary panel. "And I cannot, for the life of me, see how it is responsible just to walk away from that."
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British PM Boris Johnson says truth is 'very important' to him
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday the truth was "very important" to him amid growing calls for his resignation.
Asked by a parliamentary panel how important the truth was to him, during a discussion on integrity in politics, Johnson replied: "Very important."
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Ilaiyaraaja, P T Usha among four nominated to Rajya Sabha, tweets PM Modi
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Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi resigns as Union Minister of Minority Affairs
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UK junior DEFRA minister Churchill resigns
Jo Churchill, a junior minister in the British government, resigned on Wednesday in protest against Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
"Recent events have shown integrity, competence, and judgment are all essential to the role of Prime Minister, while a jocular self-serving approach is bound to have its limitations," Churchill said on Twitter.
She held the post of parliamentary under-secretary in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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Vistara plane engine fails just after Bangkok flight lands in Delhi
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Two more UK ministers resign from UK PM Boris Johnson's govt
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UK junior home office minister Atkins resigns
Victoria Atkins, a junior home office minister, resigned from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government on Wednesday.
"Values such as integrity, decency, respect and professionalism should matter to us all. I have watched with growing concern as those values have fractured under your leadership," Atkins said.
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Dhawan to captain India against West Indies in ODIs
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His condition is stable: Tejashwi on Lalu Yadav's condition
His condition is stable. Everyone knows about his kidney and heart issues for which treatment was going on in Delhi. Those doctors have his medical historyand that's the reason we are taking him there: RJD leader and Lalu Prasad Yadav's son Tejashwi Yadav outside the hospital.
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First Published: Jul 06 2022 | 8:33 AM IST