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The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have reached a ‘principal understanding’ to ally ahead of next month’s Haryana Assembly election, sources told NDTV Tuesday evening. The next step is to discuss seat-sharing, for which Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha for the AAP and KC Venugopal for the Congress will meet either tonight or tomorrow. All of this comes hours after it emerged that Rahul Gandhi suggested the INDIA bloc members continue a partnership formed before the April-June general election. In Haryana the Congress and AAP contested the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats 9:1, with the former winning five and the latter none. Mr Gandhi, sources said, is keen to sweep as many of the… Read More »Congress-AAP Alliance In Haryana? Negotiations To Begin Soon: Sources

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee – whose government is under fire over the rape and murder of a doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital – launched a fierce defence of her administration and the city’s police force Tuesday, pointing to equally horrific instances of assault on women in other states. She referred to the rape of a 20-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in 2020 and the rape and barbaric slaughter of a college student in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district in 2013, as well as the rape of a child last week at a government-run hospital in Rajasthan’s Jaipur. “In the Kamduni case (the North 24 Parganas rape) we demanded capital punishment… but… Read More »Mamata Banerjee Cites Unnao, Hathras In Statement On Kolkata Rape

CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, has advanced his efforts to transform microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) into a popular multimedia platform. The tech tycoon and owner of SpaceX recently made the beta version of X TV public on social media. With this new feature, users can watch films and live material right within the X app. By reducing the need to move to other media players, this feature will lessen the X user’s dependency on external media platforms. Beta version of ? TV is out https://t.co/taODqsMECS — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 3, 2024 Since the media app is released in beta version and not fully live for all users. Early adopters are… Read More »Elon Musk Unveils X TV Beta Version: Key Features And Usage Tips

Opening another front in their long-running battle, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) Vinai Saxena are now at loggerheads over an agency being hired by Mr Saxena’s office at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore a year allegedly to “boost his image”.  Questioning why a person holding an “ornamental” post needed to burden taxpayers by issuing a tender to hire an agency to manage his social media presence and burnish his image, Delhi minister and senior AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj said, “Delhi has had many lieutenant governors, but we have never seen someone paying an agency Rs 1.5 crore a year to manage his social media accounts, including Facebook, Instagram and… Read More »“Ornamental Post”: AAP vs Lt Governor On Rs 1.5-Crore Social Media Spend

<p>The West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the state anti-rape law ‘Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) Bill 2024’, with full support from the Opposition. The new Bill seeks capital punishment for persons convicted of rape if their actions result in the victim’s death or leave her in a vegetative state.&nbsp;</p> <h3>What Are The Provisions Of Aparajita Bill</h3> <p>The Mamata government summoned a two-day special Assembly session, in the wake of the rape-murder of a woman doctor at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital last month, to pass the Bill. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee speaking in the State Assembly said the Bill aims at “quick investigation,… Read More »Aparajita Bill: Can States Amend BNS, BNSS? Legal Hurdles To Bengal’s Anti-Rape Law