Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) The West Bengal Panchayat (Second Amendment) Bill, 2026, was passed in the Assembly with a thumping majority on Saturday, with 169 votes in favour and only 13 against. Of the 13 votes against the Bill, nine were from legislators belonging to the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee‑led “original but minority” faction in the Trinamool Congress legislative party. Two Congress legislators, one CPI(M) legislator and one from the All India Secular Front (AIS…
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Bhopal, July 17 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mohan Yadav, on Friday said only those having one marriage would have the right to reside in the state, under the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC), which his government will introduce during the Monsoon Session of the Assembly beginning July 20.Yadav made the announcement while addressing a gathering after inaugurating newly constructed Sandipani Schools at Jhinjhri and Bahoriband in Katni district.”Under the new UCC law, only those having o…
Guwahati, July 15 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday called on legislators to transform their constituencies into self-reliant economic units, urging them to reduce dependence on food imports from other states and make Assam self-sufficient in milk, fish, meat and agricultural produce. Addressing the Assembly during a discussion on the state government’s development agenda, Sarma said achieving self-reliance would be the most effective way to eliminate the “syndicate cu…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) The clearances granted by the previous Trinamool Congress-controlled board in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation for multi-storey structures in and around the state capital since 2021 have now come under scrutiny of the KMC’s special audit committee.Amid the recent collapse of an under-construction three-storey warehouse at Taratala in the southern outskirts of Kolkata, which took the lives of 16 people, KMC decided to conduct a special audit of all under-construction mult…
Chennai, July 14 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Cabinet is set to give final approval to key Budget proposals and clear the state’s first full Budget at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay on July 16, ahead of its likely presentation in the Assembly during the first week of August. The Cabinet meeting is scheduled for 10.30 a.m. at the Tamil Nadu Secretariat, where ministers are expected to deliberate on the government’s financial priorities before granting formal approval to the Budg…
Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) The Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari-led government has issued a notification naming the other eight members of the nine-member committee headed by retired Judge of the Supreme Court, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, to study the draft of the Uniform Civil Code Bill, West Bengal, 2026.Aiming to implement a Uniform Civil Code in West Bengal, the committee headed by Justice Desai will study the Bill and give recommendations, following which the final Bill will be drafted and t…
Thiruvananthapuram, July 4 (IANS) The curtain has come down on the first session of Kerala’s newly-elected Assembly with an outcome few had predicted. Contrary to expectations, Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan emerged as the clear political winner, while Opposition Leader Pinarayi Vijayan, who had dominated the House for a decade as an unchallenged Chief Minister, struggled to make an impact from the Opposition benches.For nearly ten years, Vijayan towered over Assembly proceedings. Neither the Opp…
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) A new Bill to prevent anti-social activities in the state will be presented on the floor of the West Bengal Assembly on June 29. The gazette notification for the Bill, titled “The West Bengal Public Safety & Control of Anti-Social Activities Bill, 2026,” has already been issued, and it will be presented on the floor of the House on Monday for clearance.Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari had announced plans to introduce such a Bill earlier this week during a discussion on…
Chennai, June 25 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu government has announced a major recruitment drive in the state power sector, with plans to fill a total of 20,449 vacancies in the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) during the current financial year.The move is aimed at strengthening the workforce of the state’s electricity utilities and improving power distribution and maintenance services across Tamil Nadu.Announcing this in the Assembly on Thursday, Law and Energy Resources Minister C.T.R. Nirmal Ku…
Mumbai, June 23 (IANS) Days after dealing a major political blow to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) by engineering the defection of six Lok Sabha MPs, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief leader Eknath Shinde on Tuesday in the state Assembly dropped a fresh bombshell, hinting that more political earthquakes are on the horizon.Referring to the defection of the six parliamentarians as part of Operation Tiger, Shinde stated that the political realignment is far from over. …