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The Congress said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to citizens to cut fuel consumption, avoid gold purchases and adopt other measures to help the country withstand global economic uncertainties amid the West Asia conflict was “proof of failure”. The “unexpected pleas” could indicate that the economic situation in the country was more dire than official data suggested, said party leader Jairam Ramesh.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav questioned why restrictions on fuel use and travel were being discussed only after election campaigning had ended, asking whether charter flights and rallies by BJP leaders during the polls did not consume fuel.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi said that the situation showed a “policy failure” in handling the fallout of the conflict. Read on.
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The Indian stock market fell about 1.5% amid higher global oil prices and concerns about the economic impact of the conflict in West Asia on India. The benchmark Sensex fell more than 1,300 points, or nearly 1.7%, and the Nifty plunged 360 points, or nearly 1.5%.
Investors had lost more than Rs 6.1 lakh crore during the day.
The Indian rupee also weakened to 95.3 against the US dollar. Read on.
Three persons were arrested in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in connection with the murder of an aide to West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. A Kolkata court has sent them to 13 days in police custody.
They were apprehended by a Special Investigation Team set up to probe the killing of Chandranath Rath. He had been shot dead near Kolkata amid widespread political violence in West Bengal after the Bharatiya Janata Party defeated the Trinamool Congress in the Assembly elections. Read on.
Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy directed the state police chief to investigate a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act case filed against Bandi Bhagirath, the son of Union minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar. Reddy also questioned the delay in action, according to the state public relations department.
The parents of a girl, reported to be a 17-year-old, have alleged that Bhagirath befriended their daughter on the pretext of marriage and sexually assaulted her at a farmhouse in Moinabad on December 31. A complaint against Bhagirath was registered on Friday.
He also registered a complaint against the girl and her parents, accusing them of blackmailing and extorting him of Rs 5 crore. The allegations and counter-allegations have triggered a political row in the state. Read on.
The Union government stated that the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin Act will come into force on July 1. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act will stand repealed on the same day.
Existing e-KYC verified MGNREGA job cards will remain valid under the new Act until Gramin Rozgar Guarantee Cards are issued, stated the Ministry of Rural Development. Read on.
‘A bill to destroy MGNREGA’: Why experts fear the worst from new job guarantee bill, reports Tabassum Barnagarwala
The X account of Peoples Democratic Party leader Iltija Mufti, daughter of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, was withheld in India. This came days after Mufti shared on X an old video of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani discussing the importance of the Urdu language.
Following the post, an FIR had been filed against unidentified persons for “promoting separatist ideology and propagating false information, with an intent to incite unlawful activities”. Read on.
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