West Bengal CM and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee rejected an invitation from the Centre to discuss Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “One Nation, One Election” initiative to hold the general and the state assembly elections simultaneously.
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Almost 50 lakh people in India lost their jobs between 2016 and 2018 – the post-demonetization years, according to a new report published by Azim Premji University’s Centre for Sustainable Employment.
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While releasing her party manifesto at her Kalighat residence in south Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee also made an “appeal” to the prime minister, Narendra Modi, to engage in an open debate with an opposition leader ahead of the general election.
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The Election Commission sent a letter to the NITI Aayog chairman, Rajiv Kumar, on Tuesday, seeking an explanation over his criticism on Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s announcement of minimum income scheme as the poll panel saw it as a pro-BJP statement.
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With only weeks to go before the Lok Sabha election, the much-awaited employment data for the post-demonetization period – July 2017 to June 2018, which had been withheld by the Modi government, has become public giving a bleak job scenario prevailing in India today.
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While responding to the criticism and clarifying the role of his department in the release of GDP back-series data by the Central Statistics Office, the NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said that the department was asked to look at the data before its release.
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Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu, will get the opportunity to meet PM Narendra Modi for the first time since Naidu pulled his party, out from the NDA . He is expected to strongly raise the "special status" demand for his state.
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