Jinnah isn’t a name the BJP is comfortable with. Some party leaders have at times used it for their bogeyman AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal. But the BJP is banking on a namesake, the 62-year-old retired government employee Kadiruzzaman Zinnah (the spelling in Assamese is same as that of Jinnah), to win the Laharighat Assembly seat where more than 91% voters are Muslims. Mr. Zinnahtoo hopes the ‘development for all’ credo will help him wrest the bastion of the Congress, which has opted for 32-year-old Asif Mohammad Nazar, son of incumbent Nazrul Islam. Source
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U.S. President addresses first press conference after assuming office At his first press conference since assuming office on January 20, U.S. President Joe Biden said he expected to run again for the presidency in 2024.“The answer is yes. My plan is to run for re-election. That’s my expectation,” Mr. Biden said when asked why he had not already announced a second run. He said Mr. Trump needed to announce his re-election early on in his [Mr. Trump’s] term.“ My predecessor … oh god I miss him,” Mr. Biden said sarcastically.When asked again later in the press conference to confirm whether…
As on March 22, 12-D forms (seeking postal ballots) have been received by Returning Officers from over 1.49 lakh elderly electors. Postal voting for electors aged above 80 is under way in various Assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu. As on March 22, 12-D forms (seeking postal ballots) had been received by Returning Officers from over 1.49 lakh elderly electors. This is the first time certain sections of the public in the State have been allowed to cast postal ballots. Earlier, only service voters and those drafted for election work were allowed the facility. Different dates Speaking to The Hindu, Chief…
Bangladesh police on Thursday fired rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of mainly student demonstrators who were protesting against an upcoming visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Police said the protest got out of hand as demonstrators marched in the capital Dhaka, with many throwing rocks and stones at officers, injuring at least four.“We fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them. There were 200 protesters. We have also arrested 33 people for violence,” police official Syed Nurul Islam told AFP.A spokesperson for the march said 2,000 mainly student protesters joined the demonstration.The protesters accused Mr. Modi of…
The Philippine military ordered the deployment of more navy ships to the South China Sea on Thursday amid a growing diplomatic row over a fleet of Chinese boats parked near a disputed reef.China claims almost the entirety of the resource-rich sea, and was accused by the United States this week of efforts to “intimidate and provoke others” by parking its vessels near the Whitsun Reef.‘Incursion of territory’Manila has ordered Beijing to recall 183 boats at the reef around 320 km west of Palawan Island, describing their presence as an incursion of its sovereign territory. Around 220 boats were detected by…
Shipping specialists warn it could take days or even weeks to refloat vessel. The owners of a giant container vessel blocking the Suez Canal said on Thursday that they were facing “extreme difficulty” refloating it, prompting Egypt to suspend navigation through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said it was trying to refloat the Panama-flagged MV Ever Given, a 400-metre-long vessel that veered off course and ran aground in a sandstorm on Tuesday.Satellite pictures released by Planet Labs Inc show the 59-metre-wide container ship wedged diagonally across the entire canal.Japanese ship-leasing firm Shoei Kisen Kaisha…
IBBI Chairperson M. S. Sahoo said ‘normalcy’ has been restored with respect to resolution of stress under the insolvency law, with the expiry of suspension of fresh proceedings. After a year of relevant provisions being suspended amid the coronavirus pandemic, fresh proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) can now be initiated Certain provisions under the Code, which provides for time-bound and market-linked resolution of stressed assets, were suspended with effect from March 25 last year in the wake of the pandemic significantly impacting business activities. The suspension, which was in place for one year, ended on March 24.…
In a nationwide special drive, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday searched over 100 locations in 11 States and Union Territories in connection with more than 30 cases of bank fraud involving over ₹3,700 crore.The complainant banks include the Indian Overseas Bank, the Union Bank of India, the Bank of Baroda, the Punjab National Bank, the State Bank of India, the IDBI Bank, the Canara Bank, the Indian Bank and the Central Bank of India.The searches were carried out in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Kanpur, Mathura, Gurugram, Karnal, Chennai, Thiruvarur, Vellore, Tiruppur, Bengaluru, Guntur, Hyderabad, Bellary, Kolkata, Vadodara, Surat, Ahmedabad,…
Congress leader blames AIADMK for the passage of Farm Bills and CAA. Time is ripe for the people of Tamil Nadu to overthrow the AIADMK government which has become a slave of the BJP, Veerappa Moily, AICC observer for the Congress’s election campaign management in Tamil Nadu, said on Thursday.The former Union Minister said that the AIADMK has not upheld federalism and that the BJP is acting as a patron of the AIADMK.“The AIADMK supported the Citizenship Amendment Act. Had it not been for their 12 votes [in Rajya Sabha], that Bill would not have passed. Now the AIADMK is…
The company misappropriated funds, causing a loss of ₹244 crore to banks, the complaint said The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked Khaitan Electricals Limited, a popular brand in the market of ceiling fans and other home appliances, on charges of falsifying accounts to cheat a consortium of banks to the tune of ₹244.92 crore.Acting on a complaint lodged by G.V. Sastry, Deputy General Manager, State Bank of India, that M/s Khaitan Tibrewala Electricals Private Ltd., which later changed its name to M/s Khaitan Electricals Limited represented by its directors, including Sunil Krishna Khaitan, Sajjan Dabriwal and Swapan Kumar…