Nov 18, 2024 00:43 IST
First revealed on: Nov 18, 2024 at 02:43 IST
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Opposition conflict
With barely 10 days to go earlier than the final date of nominations for the December 24 Lok Sabha elections, the opposition events are nowhere in sight of their declared goal of seat changes. Leaders belonging to 2 of the larger non-communist opposition groupings continued to reiterate their declare of striving arduous for seat changes whereas blaming one another for obstruction.
UK Sikhs’ plea
A decide dismissed an attraction of a sure part of Sikhs in opposition to the police resolution to ban their march to the United Nations headquarters in London to protest in opposition to what they known as the Indian authorities’s remedy of minorities. The decide additionally refused to reverse the Setting Ministry’s resolution to ban an meeting of Sikhs at Hyde Park to carry a prayer assembly for these killed in Delhi.
Mehrotra resigns
The federal government is believed to have accepted the resignation of the Indian Excessive Commissioner in Britain, Prakash Mehrotra, who flew into Delhi quickly after Indira Gandhi’s assassination leaving the delicate London submit unattended. Mehrotra, who himself introduced at Allahabad that he has despatched in his resignation, has not disclosed the explanation. Apparently, he’s lobbying for a Congress (I) to combat the election from Uttar Pradesh.
Fall in TV costs
The costs of tv units, together with color units, and different digital items are anticipated to come back down following the announcement of customs obligation concessions value about Rs 10 crore. The federal government has utterly exempted from obligation numerous uncooked supplies like chemical compounds of particular grade and excessive purity metals which at present appeal to customs duties starting from 120 to 131 per cent.
