Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) West Bengal Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta, a journalist-turned-politician, on Saturday, tabled 28 crucial Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) reports on income and expenditure from the state exchequer during the period from 2021 to 2025 when the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government was in power in the state. Tabling the reports on the last day of the ongoing extended budget session of the House, the state Finance Minister said that since the pre…
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Bhopal, July 20 (IANS) Tension flared in the state capital on Monday as OBC Mahasabha activists clashed with police while demanding the implementation of 27 per cent reservation and the immediate release of 13 per cent withheld posts. Police deployed water cannons to disperse the protesters who attempted to march towards the Legislative Assembly. Several activists were arrested at Roshanpura Square.The demonstrators, who had arrived from various districts across Madhya Pradesh, gathered at Rosha…
Chennai, July 16 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay will meet on Thursday to approve the State Budget for 2026-27, clearing the way for its presentation in the Legislative Assembly during the first week of August. The meeting, scheduled at the Secretariat, is expected to finalise the government’s first full-fledged Budget since the TVK-led administration assumed office earlier this year. The Budget is expected to reflect the new government’s governance p…
Patna, July 11 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary said on Saturday that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other modern technologies will be integrated into the functioning of the State Assembly to make Legislative proceedings more efficient, transparent, and effective. He made the announcement while addressing the inaugural session of a two-day orientation programme for state MLAs at the Bihar Institute of Public Administration and Rural Development (BIPARD) in Gaya.Emphasising the role…
Mumbai, July 10 (IANS) Launching a scathing attack on the Maharashtra government over governance and law and order, senior Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) legislator Jayant Patil on Friday issued a stern warning in the Legislative Assembly regarding the ‘Shri Ram Mandir Devasthan Trust Management, Ramtek Bill’.Patil asserted that allowing politicians onto the trust would trigger corruption of such magnitude that it would “overshadow even the Ayodhya temple controversies”.Speakin…
Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) In a major relief for homeowners, the Maharashtra government has taken a decision to waive transfer fees (Najrana), penalties, and other associated levies charged on the transfer of flats in the BBR (Backbay Reclamation) region built before 2015, where a No Objection Certificate (NOC) was not initially obtained. Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule announced this decision while responding to a calling attention motion in the Legislative Assembly. The issue was raised t…
Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) In a major move to protect vulnerable farmers and borrowers from exploitation, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday introduced a Bill which aimed at heavily increasing punishments for illegal money-lending practices across the state. The Bill, which was presented by the State Cooperation Minister Babasaheb Patil in the State Assembly, seeks to further amend the existing Maharashtra Money-Lending (Regulation) Act, 2014.The critical amendments to the Maharashtra Money-Lendin…
Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday informed the Legislative Assembly that out of the 138 sanctioned fast-track courts in Maharashtra, only 58 are currently functional. The government is continuously following up with the High Court to make judges available for the remaining courts. Replying to a question raised by MLA Rahul Kul, Fadnavis stated that while plans were made to establish a total of 138 fast-track courts across the state, only 58 could be made operation…
New Delhi, July 6 (IANS) The ongoing unrest in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) is not a sudden flare-up, but the culmination of decades of political marginalisation, economic injustice, and reprisal, meted out by the political and military masters in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. While Pakistan projects PoJK as “independent” or “free”, the reality is starkly different. It has always been under the masters’ thumb, with a skewed representation in governance and regular crushing of…
Mumbai, July 3 (IANS) General Administration Department in-charge Minister Ashish Shelar on Friday announced in the Legislative Assembly that a committee comprising members from both Houses of the Maharashtra Legislature will be constituted to recommend measures for regulating transfers of government employees, ensuring faster disposal of official files and enhancing transparency in government functioning. Senior MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar had presented the non-government bill – The Maharashtra Go…