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New Delhi: The Goa Congress told Governor Mridula Sinha on Tuesday evening that a special session of the state assembly should be convened and Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar to be asked to take a floor test, The Congress’s move comes amidst concerns over the health of 62-year-old Parrikar, who had been flown to Delhi’s AIIMS on Saturday, for treatment.

Emerging from Raj Bhavan at Dona Paula, Leader of Opposition in the assembly Chandrakant Kavlekar told reporters that the Governor had sought four-five days to get back to them. “The manner in which they (ruling coalition) are handling the leadership issue and the bickering … she should call a special one-day session,” Kavlekar said. Congress leaders think the party has a real chance to get the numbers to push its vote of no-confidence against the Parrikar government at such a session.

New Delhi: India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Project will connect Siliguri in West Bengal in India and Parbatipur in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh. The project was inaugurated through a video conferencing, The Rs 346-crore project will be completed in 30 months and the capacity of the pipeline will be one million metric tonnes per annum.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the cooperation between India and Bangladesh as an example for the world as he jointly inaugurated the construction of a 130-kilometre friendship pipeline project and two railway projects with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina.

New Delhi: A court in United Arab Emirates (UAE) has ordered the extradition of an alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland chopper deal to India. A British national, is wanted in India for allegedly organising bribes in exchange for a 2007 contract for VVIP helicopters for the purchase of 12 luxury helicopters for use by top leaders, including the President, Prime Minister and former prime ministers. He was detailed in UAE this June and was later granted bail.

New Delhi: Union finance minister Arun Jaitley while speaking largely in the context of India’s crisis-prone agriculture said that benefits from populist policies are short-lived and subsidies alone can’t sustain a sector for long, unless “blended” with investments.

Jaitley was speaking largely in the context of India’s crisis-prone agriculture, while releasing the book, “Supporting Indian Farms the Smart way” by economists Ashok Gulati, Marco Ferroni and Yuan Zhou, but his comments also come on the back of political demands to ease sharply rising fuel prices by cutting taxes. A large hike in minimum support prices announced in July by the central government itself forms a big part of farm subsidies.

New Delhi: Continuing attack against the Modi government, Congress president Rahul Gandhi termed demonetisation as the “biggest scam” of the government to convert black money into white.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on November 8, 2016 announced demonetisation, under which Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes existing then were scrapped with immediate effect.

Gandhi attacked the government while addressing a public meeting here after carrying out a 15km roadshow, virtually kicking the party’s campaign for the upcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh.

New Delhi: A study showed that sitting MLAs across the country have an average annual income of Rs 24.59 lakh, with those from Karnataka topping the charts with an average of over Rs 1 crore per annum.

On the other hand, Chhattisgarh MLAs earn the lowest with their average annual income coming at Rs 5.4 lakh, as per the latest report of the Association for Democratic Reforms and the National Election Watch.