Switzerland is starting to get bank account information on citizens from India and giving the information to Indian government. Starting in November of 2018 Switzerland is done being associated with black money. Baum was in Coimbatore to inaugurate a slew of projects under CAPAcities that focusses on capacity building for low carbon and climate resilient city development in India funded by… Read more »
COIMBATORE: The Switzerland government began gathering information on bank account holders from India starting in January this year and the list will be shared with the Indian government in 2019, said Switzerland’s ambassador to India and Bhutan, Andreas Baum, on Thursday. Baum said as per the agreement signed by the Swiss government in November 2018, the government had started work… Read more »
The country’s most populous state sends 31 MPs to the 245-member Rajya Sabha, and the BJP, which won a massive victory in the 2017 Assembly elections, is yet to get a lion’s share of these. With 83 members in the Upper House, the NDA is well short of a majority. The BJP has 58 Rajya Sabha MPs. LUCKNOW: A day… Read more »
MUMBAI: Former Kerala BJP president V Muraleedharan, who was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra on Thursday, said his party is aiming to win the 2021 Assembly polls in his home state. Talking to reporters here, Muraleedharan said Kerala is the last bastion of the Left, and the BJP is working towards winning it in 2021. “In the… Read more »
BENGALURU: The Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha bypoll results will have no “direct” bearing on the coming assembly polls in Karnatakawhere the electoral dynamics is different, say political parties. Wilting under the combined onslaught of the SP-BSP, the BJP suffered an embarrassing electoral reverse, losing the Gorakhpur seat which Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had retained for five terms, and… Read more »
There was a mix up of voting machines in Meghalaya which called for a repeal in the Northeastern state. Polling was countermanded due to the killing of National Congress Party candidate Jonathone N Sangma on February 18. 544 of 628 votes were accounted for which was 86%. A significant number to me. 86 percent of a state voting is a great… Read more »
NEW DELHI: Karti Chidambaram, who was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly taking bribes, was today sent to CBI custody for five days. Special Judge Sunil Rana extended Karti ‘s custody till March 6 after the CBI contended that there were “very shocking evidences” of his activities while on a recent trip to London. The court has allowed Karti’s advocates to… Read more »
NEW DELHI: Shakti Sthala, hailed as the world’s largest solar park by Karnatakagovernment, was today inaugurated by CM Siddaramaiah in Pavagada taluk of Karnataka’s Tumkur district. The 2,000MW capacity plant is spread across an area of 13,000 acres, which was leased to the government by 2,300 local farmers at Rs 21,000 per acre per annum. Currently, 600 MW of the… Read more »
SHILLONG: About 86 per cent voters exercised their franchise during re-polling at one polling station Raliang constituency in Meghalaya on Thursday, chief electoral officer FR Kharkongor said. The re-poll was ordered at Kyndong Tuber polling station after polling officers stopped voting on February 27 following a mix up of voting machines, he said. Till 4pm at the close of the… Read more »
NEW DELHI: Eight months after the Doklam standoff, junior defence minister Subhash Bhamre on Thursday said the situation along India’s border with China is “sensitive” and it has the potential to escalate. “At the Line of Actual Control the situation is sensitive as incidents of patrolling, transgression and standoffs have a potential of escalation,” he said. The nearly 4,000-km-long border… Read more »