Kerala education minister V Sivankutty on Thursday said that the state government will not accept an NCERT high-level committee's recommendation that 'Bharat' be used instead of 'India' as the name of the country in school textbooks.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday, held a high-level meet with Kannada Rajyotsava Award Selection Committee.All castes, religions and genders should get representation while selecting the awardees, he suggested.
Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai on Thursday appeared before the Lok Sabha Ethics Committee to submit oral evidence on his allegations of "Cash for Query' against TMC MP Mahua Moitra.
The Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha on Thursday agreed that the allegations against TMC MP Mahua Moitra in the 'cash-for-query' are "very serious," sources said.
"The question is whether the propriety and dignity of Parliament will hold. It is a question of the dignity of Parliament," Dubey said, adding that the Ethics Committee is more worried than him.
The Ethics Committee of the Lok Sabha will call Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on October 31, over the cash-for-query allegations against her, the Chairman of Parliament Ethics Committee Vinod Sonkar said on Thursday.
The 6th ACRM was co-chaired by Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar, AVSM, VSM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command & C-in-C (Coastal Defence, East), and Dr KS Jawahar Reddy, IAS, Chief Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
When asked about Mahua's allegations that Dubey submitted a fake degree in his election nomination papers, the BJP MP said that there is only one answer and that is "Mahua Chor hai ki Nahi" (Is Mahua a thief or not?)"
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai will appear before the Committee for oral evidence in regard to the complaint filed by Dubey against TMC MP Mahua Moitra alleging that she has "a direct involvement in 'cash for query' in Parliament".
The extraordinary journey of Indian Para-Powerlifting continues to gather momentum as Meerut's Zainab Khatun and Delhi's Rajkumari, both competing in the 61kg weight category, clinched silver and bronze medals on the second day of the competition at the Asian Games.
Ahead of the Telangana Assembly elections on November 30, the Congress's poll in-charge Manikrao Thakare held a screening committee meeting on Wednesday.