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Mar 14, 2021

UP BJP Announces State Working Committee

The Uttar Pradesh BJP announced the names of 323 members of its state working committee, and also listed permanent and special invitees to the panel.
Twenty-eight senior party leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, UP Chief Minister Adityanath and several state and central ministers, have been included as permanent invitees.
All the party's district presidents, district in-charges and mayors will be invitee members of the state working committee.
A total of 94 leaders, including MPs and cabinet ministers like Suresh Kumar Khanna, Swami Prasad Maurya, Satish Mahana, Ashutosh Tandon and Anil Rajbhar, have been made special invitees.

Vietnam Agrees to Work Closely on Key Issues with India

India and Vietnam held bilateral consultations on United Nations Security Council issues using the VTC platform where both sides agreed to work closely together on key issues on the UNSC agenda.
According to a release by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), the Vietnamese delegation was led by Do Hung Viet, Director-General, Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam along with officials from the Department of International Organisations, Department of Southeast Asia, South Pacific of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Vietnam at New Delhi and the Permanent Mission of Vietnam to the UN.
Prakash Gupta, Joint Secretary (UNP & Summits) led the Indian delegation and was joined by officials from the Southern Division of MEA, the Permanent Mission of India to the UN in New York and the Embassy of India in Hanoi.

Mar 13, 2021

Xcelerator Bengaluru Programme

Karnataka launched the "Xcelerator Bengaluru Programme" in the bid to provide support to the women-owned micro-businesses.
The state presented the Budget for 2021-2022 in which it has granted Rs. 37,188 crore for the women-centric programmes. Similarly, the government is also encouraging the small scale or micro entrepreneurs, employees, working women, rural self-help groups with the help of several initiatives like prominent Elevate Women programme.
The "Xcelerator Bengaluru" is a curated six-month accelerator programme. It seeks to provide its support to the women so as to help in scaling the women-owned micro-businesses. This initiative is jointly organised by the UBUNTU Consortium of Women Entrepreneurs' Associations, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI).

Govt. Employees Cannot be Election Commissioners, Rules SC

The Supreme Court ruled that any persons employed with the central or state governments could not be appointed as election commissioners in the country. The ruling aims at ensuring independence of the election commissions.
A bench of justices Rohinton F. Nariman and BR Gavai issued the direction exercising its powers under Articles 142 and 144 of the Constitution. Under Article 142, the apex court is empowered to issue directives to do "complete justice" whereas Article 144 obligates all authorities to act in aid of the Supreme Court.
The judgment came as the top court censured the Goa government for appointing its law secretary as the state election commissioner for conducting municipal council elections in the state. The law secretary was given the additional charge as the state election commissioner.

Meghalaya Opposition to Table Privilege Motion against CM Conrad Sangma

The opposition Congress in Meghalaya will table a privilege motion against Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma for allegedly misleading the House on the power purchase agreement signed with NTPC in 2007.
Leader of Opposition Mukul Sangma stating this regretted that the attempt to mislead and misinform the House has come from none other than the leader of the House.
He alleged that the chief minister had deliberately with a predetermined motive misinformed the House about the PPA signed by the then Congress-led government with the NTPC in 2007.
In order to prevent this precedent to carry on in the future, it requires the members of the House to come up with a complaint for breach of privilege. Therefore, a privilege motion against the Chief Minister was has been decided.

Mar 12, 2021

Gadkari Inaugurates Technology Centres in Andhra

Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Nitin Gadkari inaugurated two technology centres at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
He also inaugurated three extension centres of big technological centres and seven mobile Udyam Express.
The mobile Udyam Express, vans will go to the villages and make people aware about all aspects of entrepreneurship along with imparting training to them.

Mar 11, 2021

Khattar Government Wins Trust Vote Comfortably

The BJP-JJP government in Haryana survived the floor test, comfortably defeating the no-confidence motion moved against it by the main opposition Congress.
The motion was defeated following division of votes.
At the end of a marathon six-hour discussion on the motion, Speaker Gian Chand Gupta announced in the House that 55 members had voted against the motion while 32 legislators had backed it.
The 55 members who voted against the motion included 39 from the BJP, 10 of ally Jannayak Janta Party, 5 Independents and Gopal Kanda from Haryana Lokhit Party.

Mar 10, 2021

Trivendra Singh Rawat Resigns

Trivendra Singh Rawat, the eighth Chief Minister of Uttarakhand, resigned from the top post on. He remained in office for about four years starting from March 2017.
Rawat, who was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh member from 1979 to 2002, had played a key role in the formation of the state of Uttarakhand.
Rawat had a keen interest in social work from a very young age. Six years after joining RSS, he became the pracharak of the right-wing organisation for the Dehradun region. He, subsequently, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

No-confidence Motion in Haryana Assembly

Amid the ongoing farmers' stir against the three central agriculture laws, the BJP-JJP combine ruling in Haryana and the main opposition Congress have issued a whip for the no-confidence motion of the latter in the state Legislative Assembly against an 'anti-farmer' government on March 10.
Even protesting farm union leaders have urged the people and legislators, especially the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), to lobby their representatives in the assembly to support the motion.

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