After days of high drama, Jyotiraditya Scindia finally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Within hours of joining the BJP, Scindia was named as a BJP Rajya Sabha candidate by the party.
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Former Union minister and four-time MP Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned from the Congress, shortly after meeting the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the home minister, Amit Shah, in New Delhi. He is expected to join the Bharatiya Janata Party sometime this week.
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An Air Force C-17 Globemaster III plane evacuated stranded Indians and some foreigners from coronavirus-hit Wuhan, while, an Air India flight repatriated Indian crew and passengers from coronavirus-hit cruise ship Diamond Princess, which is docked at Yokohama.
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China is delaying permission to India’s request to send an Indian Air Force transport plane to carry relief material for people affected by coronavirus in the neighbouring country and bring back Indians from Hubei province’s Wuhan – the worst affected city in the country.
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The mainly Muslim women protesters sitting in protest day after day, night after night braving the bitter Delhi winter has now caught the attention of the country as well the international community.
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After the president, Ram Nath Kovind, signed the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, which was passed by Parliament, into law, protests erupted all across India against the new law, on Thursday, where protesters urged the government to repeal it.
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President Ram Nath Kovind, on Friday, signed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 into law after both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha passed the bill, earlier this week, amending the existing Citizenship Act of India.
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Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, the most senior judge in the Supreme Court after former CJI Ranjan Gogoi retired, sworn in as the 47th chief justice of India by the president, Ram Nath Kovind, at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan. CJI Bobde will hold office of the top judge of the country until April 23
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The government has announced reforms in foreign direct investment in India, including 100% FDI under automatic route in coal mining and contract manufacturing. The centre has also approved 26% overseas investment in digital media and relaxed FDI norms for single brand retailers.
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In the wake of slowing economic growth and growing global uncertainty, the central board of the Reserve Bank of India approved transfer of ₹1.76 lakh crore surplus reserve to the central government.
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