Politics

During the last hearing in July, the court had granted Gandhi exemption from personal appearance, slating October 10 as the next date of hearing.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah also lauded the prime minister for integrating Jammu and Kashmir with India by abrogating Article 370.

Addressing the Vijayadashmi function of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Nagpur, the HCL founder-chairman urged the private sector, citizens and NGOs to come forward to resolve challenges.

After the collapse of the JDS-Congress coalition government and the humiliating defeat in the recent Lok Sabha elections, the rebellion against the state leadership has begun in full scale.

The EC on Sunday said it would send Electronically Transmitted Postal Ballot System (ETPBS) to 1,17,581 service voters posted outside Maharashtra, comprising 1,14,496 male and 3,085 women voters.

'We have finalised the list of our candidates and are hopeful of a clean sweep in the elections,' state BJP president Ravinder Raina said. The BDC elections are scheduled to be held on October 24.

The two allies had announced the seat-sharing deal on Friday, although there is still some confusion over how many seats the BJP would actually contest.

JD(S) patriarch Deve Gowda made it clear that he would not meet the Prime Minister over release of central funds for flood relief as he has not recieved any reply to earlier letters,seeking Rs 5,000 crore as immediate relief.

The Deswali belt comprises districts of Rohtak, Jhajjar and Sonipat, which send 14 MLAs to the 90-member state legislature. In the 2014 elections, the Congress had won 10 of its 15 seats from the belt.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader, Kamal Nath, appeared untroubled despite the apparent crisis, saying this was not unexpected.

Senior RSS leader Sunil Ambekar says the Sangh has grown over a period of 90 years and it works on societal issues.

The order was passed on a petition by DMK's M Appavu challenging the election of his nearest AIADMK candidate IS Inbadurai and October 4 has been fixed as date for recounting.

Banerjee's comments followed Amit Shah's speech at a BJP programme in Kolkata where he said that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would be implemented in Bengal and that the chief minister had been misleading people on the issue.

The Congress, Samajwadi Party and BSP have decided to not attend the session alleging the BJP government was not taking any action to curb incidents of crime in the state.

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Monday his country has decided to invite Singh to attend the inaugural ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor.

The saffron party, that came to power with the help of these MLAs, plans to field most of them in the by-polls on getting respite from the Apex Court, where they have challenged their disqualification.