Program for IAS aspirants in Delhi
An interaction program for civil service aspirants will be held on November 14 at ECA Room Ramjas College, Delhi University. The main speaker of this program is Noor Rahman Shiekh, IFS, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, New York. This programme is being organsied by Delhi Association of Manipuri Muslim Students
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The 1st Northeast Unsung Heroes Red Carpet social award 2019 is going to be held in Mumbai on November 15. 24 Unsung Heroes of 8 states of North East India will be recognized for their silent contribution to the society. Shri. Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Hon’ble Governor of Maharashtra and Shri Kiren Rijiju, Hon’ble Minister of State (I/c) Youth Affairs & Sports and many other sports personality, Bollywood celeb and Change -Makers of the country will attend the event.
Founder Rebecca Changkija Sema has started the journey with her Home state Nagaland and then in Sikkim, she is quite excited to see her Brain- child growing every year.
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BJP's candidate for the ensuing Lok Sabha election n Dibrugarh consttuency Rameswar Teli's assents increased by 347% in the last 5 years. Pradan Barua, BJP candidate in Lakhimpur constituency declares 107% asset increase. Congress canddate in Kaliabar constituency Gaurav Gogoi decalared 151%.
These information are based on candidate's self-declared affidavit that was filed during the elections.
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RESPONSE TO DR HIMANTA BISWA SARMA PRESS CONFERENCE ON 06 JANUARY 2019 A detailed press conference by Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma on Clause 6 of the Assam Accord and setting out what the committee is going to recommend yesterday — Dr. Sarnia has sold a dream, a dream of every indigenous for last 40 years but comes with a significant condition. Its fulfilment will be in the next Lok Sabha and the next Government accordingly formed. However, the present Government and Lok Sabha will pass the Citizenship Amendment Bill with will be a concrete step by them during their tenure, while the indigenous have to live with their dreams until the next Lok Sabha and Government. which is never certain....
The joint parliamentary committee set up to study the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 will table its report to Parliament on Monday. Presided over by chairman Rajendra Agarwal, the committee held its last session on Thursday where the draft report was passed without accepting any amendment proposal. Congress member Bhubneswar Kalita walked out of the meeting for not considering his proposals. Later hr said they would oppose the Bill inside and outside Parliament. In a related development Congress leader and former chief minister Tarun Gogoi said the Bill if enacted would reduce the Assam Accord, 1985 and NRC into a meaningless sheet of papers. The AGP leaders met in Dispur in...
The Centre will soon set up a high level committee to implement the Clause 6 of the Assam Accord to ensure constitutional safeguard for the indigenous people which many parties and organizations except BJP have called a mere poll gimmick. Addressing a press conference in the capital after the Union cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Union home minister Rajnath Singh said the committee would suggest the Centre the ways to implement the Clause 6 of the Assam Accord, 1985 which has been remaining unimplemented for decades. Chaired by prime minister Narendra Modi, the cabinet further discussed in detail the Bodo Accord where a few of the clauses have yet to be implemented. Meanwhile, AASU and...
The Joint Parliamentary Committee set up to study the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 has finalized it's report brushing aside the amendment proposals on Monday in Delhi that runs into a seismic wave of protest across the state from the new year’s day. Chaired by MP Rajendra Agarwalla, the committee met in the afternoon where defying the stiff protest by the opposition camps, the BJP and it's coalition partners cleared the Bill in its original form that would pave the way for citizenship to the non Muslim immigrants from the neighbouring Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan who intruded into India till December 31, 2014. Caught in a barrage of protest, the committee was indecisive for the...
NEW DELHI:In an effort to quell any law and order problem ahead of the publication of final draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) the state government on Wednesday has sought more central paramilitary forces from the Home Ministry. “We have sought for more central paramilitary forces. And we were assured by the centre that all possible help will be provided to the state to maintain law and order situation. We are going ahead with the publication of the NRC according to the Supreme Court instructions,” Director General of Police Kuladhar Saikia said mediapersons after attending the meeting at North Block. He said that the issue of providing security to the NRC coordinator in Assam...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday extended by a months its 30 June deadline for the publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft. The bench gave the extension after the Centre and the state NRC coordinator agreed to publish it within the new 30 July deadline. A bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi and RF Nariman considered the report of Assam NRC coordinator Prateek Hajela and extended the deadline. Last week, Hajela had said it would not be possible to release the final draft of the NRC on 30 June because of the floods in Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts in the Barak Valley as well as in parts of Karbi Anglong and Hojai. The court on Monday asked the state...
NEW DELHI : The much hyped fate of the final draft publication of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) would be decided on July 2 with the Supreme Court expected to deliver its judgement as to the date when the complete draft NRC would be published. A Supreme Court bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice RF Nariman will take up the hearing on this crucial issue today.According to an earlier order of the apex Court, the draft NRC was to be brought out on June 30. However due to the onslaught of the first wave of the floods, it became an uphill task for the NRC authorities to carry out its work in a number of districts. NRC work came to a virtual standstill in the five flood-...
NEW DELHI: BJP central leadership is understood to have cleared the decks for the Assam cabinet expansion at the end of an hour long meeting between Amit Shah and Sarbananda Sonowal in New Delhi on Friday. Senior party leaders who refused to be named told Assam Times that Shah and Sonowal finalized the induction of eight new members in the expended cabinet where three sitting ministers would be dropped. Of the ten new faces AGP and BPF have one each while others are BJP legislators who are expected to take oath in a day or two. Chief minister Sonowal, however, avoided the media persons, who were waiting outside the official residence if the BJP president.
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