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Eastern Zone Council meet: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who is the chairman of the council, was accompanied by five home ministry officials at the meeting that began around 11 am and lasted for a little over two hours. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday held a meeting of the Eastern Zone Council (EZC) in West Bengal. During the meeting, he urged Chief Ministers of states to share the responsibility along with the Border Security Force (BSF) for security in India’s border areas. Shah, who is the chairman of…

The former UP chief minister had quit as the Lok Sabha MP earlier this week. Akhilesh Yadav will soon be seen in a new role as the leader of opposition in Uttar Pradesh’s state assembly. He was elected by the Samajwadi Party MLAs for the post at a key party meet on Saturday. The former UP chief minister had quit as the Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh on Monday. He won his first state assembly election from Karhal in the family bastion of Mainpuri earlier this month. The Samajwadi Party’s newly elected…

According to sources, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has bought as much as 3 million barrels of crude oil from Russia that had been offered at a steep discount to prevailing international rates. The purchase, made through a trader, is the first Ever since Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine that brought international pressure for isolating the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration, the purchase that happened through a trader is the first such transaction. With the US and other western nations slapping sanctions on Moscow, Russia has begun offering oil and…

Many in the West Bengal government said that there was a massive reduction in the number of guests owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Agrowing popular perception is that in today’s politics, courtesy means weakness. If you don’t believe in courtesy, then you are seen as an aggressive and smart politician. This means that the old values of courtesy among politicians are not as important now as they once were. However, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was present at the parade despite the fact that he has been taking to Twitter almost every…

As Lok Sabha took up Zero Hour on Wednesday in its first two days of Winter session, senior BJP MP Nishikant Dubey urged the central government to expedite the process to bring in a law to implement Uniform Civil Code. Dubey further said that Allahabad High Court had last month asked the Centre to consider setting up a panel to implement the mandate of Article 44 of the Constitution, which speaks about a Uniform Civil Code for people across the country. Adding that the move is necessary for a united India, he said,…

The Centre has refused to file an affidavit on Pegasus citing national security, the Supreme Court on Monday said that it only wants to know whether or not the Pegasus spyware was used through illegal methods to allegedly snoop on citizens.    The Supreme Court has observed that it has received several pleas seeking an independent probe and concerns have been raised by journalists and others over violation of privacy. The top court has decided to pass an interim order, reiterating it was not interested in knowing issues related to…