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NATIONAL AFFAIRS - September 2015

Sep 2015

Mar 08, 2019

Names for Lok Pal Shortlisted

Attorney-General K.K. Venugopal informed the Supreme Court that names for Lokpal, the anti-corruption ombudsman, have been shortlisted and forwarded to the Selection Committee chaired by the Prime Minister.
A Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi asked Mr. Venugopal to enquire within 10 days about the probable date by which the Selection Committee would meet to finalise the appointment of the first Lokpal Chairperson and members.
As per Mr. Venugopal, 10 names were shortlisted for Lokpal Chairperson and five names each for judicial and non-judicial members.

Congress' First List for U.P. and Gujarat

The Congress announced party president Rahul Gandhi as its candidate from Amethi and Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli.
The party released its first list of 15 Lok Sabha candidates for Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.
Among the 15 candidates announced, four are from Gujarat and 11 from U.P.
In Uttar Pradesh, former Union Ministers and MPs have been named. While Salman Khursid will contest the Farrukhabad seat, R.P.N. Singh has been named from Kushinagar. Jitin Prasad is the candidate for Dhaurahra and Anu Tandon for Unnao.
Former U.P. Congress chief Nirmal Khatri will contest in Faizabad and Salim Sherwani from Badaun. Imran Masood is the candidate for Saharanpur.
In Gujarat, former Congress chief Bharatsinh Solanki has been fielded from Anand, Raju Parmar from Ahmedabad West and Prashant Patel from Vadodara.

Mar 07, 2019

Peace Party May Go Alone

Left with no other option after both SP-BSP alliance and the Congress have refused its bargain on seat-sharing, Peace Party chief Mohammad Ayub said that the party may go alone in Lok Sabha 2019.
The party has decided to change its slogan from 'Tabedaari' to 'Hissedari' (from being servants to stakeholders).
According to Ayub, his party would always side with anti-BJP forces to ensure the ruling party's defeat in the Lok Sabha elections.
The Peace Party played a key role in united opposition's win in parliamentary by-poll in Gorakhpur and Phulpur in 2018.

Congress's Foreign Policy Stance

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met 30 envoys and senior diplomats of G20 nations and neighbouring countries to outline their party's foreign policy stance.
A Pakistani representative was not invited to the interaction, seen as part of the Congress party's outreach to key players in the diplomatic community ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
The Congress president made it clear to the diplomats that his party is united and committed to carry forward the fight against terror.
Besides G20 members, envoys and senior diplomats of neighbouring countries such as Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka and key Asian nations such as South Korea attended the meet, where the Congress leadership also shared its economic and political vision.

Indore Cleanest City for Third Year

In the latest Cleanliness Survey, Indore was adjudged India's cleanest city for the third year in a row. The second and third positions were bagged by Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh and Mysuru in Karnataka.
The Swachh Survekshan awards 2019 were conferred by President Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi. While the New Delhi Municipal Council was given the 'Cleanest Small City' award, Uttarakhand's Gauchar bagged the 'Best Ganga Town'. The 'Cleanest Big City' award has been bagged by Ahmedabad, while Raipur is the 'Fastest Moving Big City'.
Top-ranked cities received a statue of Mahatma Gandhi as a memento for their work towards cleanliness. Swachh Survekshan covered all urban local bodies in the country, making it the largest such cleanliness survey in the world.

NPP Launches Unit in Assam

The National People's Party (NPP), which aims to be the alternative to the Congress and ally BJP in the northeast, launched its unit in Assam with a plan to contest all the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the State.
The launch coincided with the completion of a year of the NPP-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government in Meghalaya, where the BJP is a minor partner.
Assam is the sixth north-eastern State where the NPP has made an entry. The Assam unit is headed by retired IPS officer Dilip Kumar Bora.

Mar 06, 2019

One Nation One Card

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the indigenously-developed National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Dubbed as ''One Nation One Card'', the card will allow people to pay multiple kinds of transport charges, including metro services and toll tax, all over India.
The inter-operable transport card can also be used to pay for bus travel, toll taxes, parking charges, retail shopping and withdraw money
This card runs on RuPay card.

RLD Joins SP-BSP Alliance

The Rashtriya Lok Dal has been officially inducted into the alliance of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh and has been allotted three out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the State.
The announcement was made here by RLD vice president Jayant Chaudhary and SP president Akhilesh Yadav at a joint press conference.

Mar 05, 2019

IDBI Bank to Appoint New Deputy MDs

IDBI Bank has invited applications for the posts of two deputy managing directors (DMDs).
The tenure of the candidates shall be three years, extendable by a further period of two years or attainment of age 60.
One of the current DMDs, K.P. Nair, retires in May. The other, G.M. Yadwadkar, was appointed in September 2016 for three years. He would retire in 2022.
Both were appointed by the government as the majority shareholder. Now, with LIC becoming the promoter, the appointments, including that of MD and CEO, would be made by the insurer.

Mar 04, 2019

Mumbai Monorail's Second Leg Inaugurated

Railway minister Piyush Goyal and chief minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated phase-2 of the Monorail, extending from Wadala to Jacob Circle, operationalising the entire 19.5-km (Chembur to Jacob Circle) stretch after a delay of eight years.
Mumbai will become the first city in the country to have a Monorail, Metro and suburban rail services.
The first phase of the Monorail, from Chembur to Wadala, became operational in 2014.

Umesh Jadhav Likely to Join BJP

Umesh Jadhav, one of four Congress rebel MLAs in Karnataka submitted resignation to Karnataka Assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar.
Jadhav is a two-time MLA from the Chincholi constituency.
He is expected to join the BJP soon and could be their candidate against Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge for the Gulbarga seat in the Lok Sbaha elections.

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