Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Dinesh Sharma said that there is no objection to the Supreme Court's order staying the Kanwar Yatra directives and expressed that people also should have no objection to presenting their identities.
"I had said that the Supreme Court should take cognizance of this matter and stop such action. Just like a diya flutters before being blown out, the communal politics that has ended, its diya is now fluttering and so the hearing is being held. The government has taken many such steps because
Tharoor said that it is the responsibility of the government employees to work for everyone and added that they should remain "neutral" when in government.
In between the parliamentary session in Lok Sabha on Monday, Congress MP Manickam Tagore lashed out at Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, saying that he is a failed minister and he should resign.
On the occasion of Ashadha Purnima, Uttar Pradesh Minister of Labour and Employment Anil Rajbhar explained Buddha's teachings as "our Sanskriti, ancient thought and knowledge that should be shared and spread for the betterment of mankind" on Sunday in Sarnath.
The Supreme Court on Monday put an interim stay on directives issued by the authorities of certain state governments that eateries along the Kanwar Yatra route should display the names of the owners outside such shops.
Reacting to the row over using 'nameplates' on food shops on the Kanwar route in UP and Uttarakhand, UP Congress state president Ajay Rai said that if Chirag Paswan and Jayant Chaudhary are really against this decision, then they should withdraw their support from the government.
Former Olympian and the High Performance Director of the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) National Centre of Excellence Sanjeeva Singh said India's quest for an archery medal at the Summer Games should end at Paris 2024.
Amid the row in Uttar Pradesh, the Haridwar Police Administration also issued an order for restaurant owners to display names on the Kanwar Yatra route.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday criticized the BJP-led NDA government for recent train accidents, saying that the government should address the issue or face public consequences.
"The paper that has been published today is looking at COVID-19 mortality and the reduction in life expectancy during the pandemic. What it is trying to look at is excess mortality during the COVID pandemic in the year 2020. Now the first thing to understand is this is not COVID deaths on