Politics

Gandhi's attack comes ahead of the all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday evening to discuss the situation along the India-China border.

Mayawati also said that it was good that the country had united at such a crucial juncture, while ignoring the government's shortcomings

The two legislations were caught in a deadlock with the opposition earlier blocking their passage in the Legislative Council.

On triple talaq, Tomar said "it was our Prime Minister's dream that injustice which lakhs of Muslim women face should be done away with even if law has to be made for this and we did that".

On Monday, Delhi recorded 1,007 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the COVID-19 tally in the city to over 29,000, while the death toll due to the disease mounted to 874.

Although the address is part of BJP's 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' campaign, the sources said, Shah is likely to touch issues such as 'state government's mishandling of COVID outbreak, migrant labour crisis and politics of violence'.

Speaking on the coronavirus outbreak, which has hit the state the worst, Fadnavis said testing for the infection was in the range of 10,000 when the capacity was 35,000.

In a tweet on Friday, the minister had said that he is healthy and has no symptoms of coronavirus.

The former union minister was in the race along with present Karnataka Congress Rajya Sabha members Dr Rajiv Gowda and BK Hariprasad. However, Kharge, who is known as a close associate of party interim president Sonia Gandhi, managed to beat the others.

In the teaser of the conversation released on various social media accounts of the party, Gandhi, citing experts, is seen talking about the fear of the coronavirus disease, which, if spreads once, is difficult to get rid of.

BJP spokesperson Brig (Retd) Anil Gupta said the news of a senior IAS officer testing positive for COVID-10 on return from Srinagar raises doubts on the adherence of the adminstration's SOPs and guidelines by senior officers.

The FIR has been lodged against 32 named persons and about 60 unnamed ones who had gathered at Rabri Devi's residence on Friday where Tejashwi Yadav had summoned all party legislators for staging protests.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has sought an urgent assistance of Rs 5,000 crore to pay salaries of Delhi government employees and meet office expenses.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla had last week discussed feasibility of holding parliamentary panel meetings since flights and rail services were gradually being restored.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in its six years of tenure had corrected many "historic wrongs" and laid the foundation of a self-reliant India.

The railways has said that it had to divert many Shramik Special trains travelling to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar between May 22 and May 24 due to 80 per cent of the traffic being routed there.