The ruling Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government in Karnataka is facing a huge crisis following the resignation of 12 Congress legislators from the assembly, on Saturday. This started with two Congress MLAs resigning, on Monday.
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Following the resignation of Rahul Gandhi as the Congress’s president, Milind Deora, president of Congress’s Mumbai unit and Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress general secretary in charge of western UP, have submitted their resignations from their respective party posts.
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The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government of Uttar Pradesh has decided to issue caste certificates to members of 17 other backward classes. This decision is seen as a political ploy for the 2022 assembly election.
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Major General Ian Cardozo (retired), a 1971 war hero, has expressed deep concern and anguish over government’s decision to tax disability pension given to soldiers. The veteran also criticized the Army HQ for supporting the initiative and for using his name to defend the move.
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A Delhi court has accepted Indrani Mukerjea’s plea to turn approver in INX Media corruption case in which former finance minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti are involved. Indrani is currently lodged in a Mumbai jail awaiting trial for the murder of her daughter, Sheena Bora.
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The National Health Mission said 45 people have died until July 3 since the outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in Assam. The affected areas include the upper Assam districts of Jorhat, Golaghat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur and lower Assam district of Kamrup.
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In the wake of growing international pressure on Pakistan to act against money laundering and terrorism financing, Pakistani authorities announced that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed and his 12 accomplices have been booked for financing terror.
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The heavy security measures undertaken for the annual Amarnath yatra, which commenced earlier this week in Jammu & Kashmir, have drew criticism from the locals for the inconvenience they are facing in their daily lives.
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Two days after the vandalism of a Durga temple in Lal Kuwan area of Old Delhi’s Chawri Bazar, the Delhi Police have arrested a total of four people. A juvenile has also been detained in the case.
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A breach of the Tiware dam in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, washed away several houses following heavy rains. Twenty-three people have been feared killed in the incident and, so far, 11 bodies were recovered from downstream.
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