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Blow to Congress, TRS says no to merger, JD(U) refuses tie-up

March 4, 2014

TRS_refusesNew Delhi/Hyderabad, Mar 4: On a day the Janata Dal (United) snubbed its alliance overtures, the Congress was dealt another blow on Monday when in the evening Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) not only ruled out a merger but also indicated it was open to a tie-up with other political parties.

TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao announced in Hyderabad that his party had unanimously decided not to merge with the Congress. After a six-hour meeting of its general body, TRS also set up a five-member committee to discuss alliance with other parties, including the Congress.

The developments are a blow to the Congress’ Lok Sabha math. It braved opposition within and outside to go ahead with the Andhra split, expecting to reap rich electoral dividends in Telangana, which has 17 Lok Sabha seats, in alliance with TRS. With anger against the split, Seemandhra with 25 Lok Sabha seats is largely seen as a lost cause for the Congress.

TRS sources said the majority in the party favoured maintaining an independent identity and having a “level-playing field” with all parties. Another view was that the party should take a decision on tie-ups only after the elections.

Earlier in the day, JD(U) chief Sharad Yadav ruled out any tie-up with the Congress and said his party would work to strengthen the Third Front of 11 non-BJP, non-Congress parties. “We will strengthen that and spoil the game of the Congress and BJP,” he said.

In view of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s refusal to concede more than 11 seats to it in Bihar, the Congress opened back-channel talks with CM Nitish Kumar’s party. But the JD(U)’s demand for special status for Bihar remained the biggest stumbling block.

Read : Lalu relents on deadline to Cong, offers 11 LS seats

The JD(U) snub has now left the Congress with two options — to go it alone or accept Prasad’s offer. It has since scaled down its demand for seats from 15 to 12 seats. Bihar has 40 Lok Sabha seats.

Many JD(U) leaders viewed the Congress overtures as a tactic to build pressure on the RJD. The indication that the Congress was inching closer to finalising the deal with the RJD came from party

spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi. “We are moving in the direction that will be proper and effective for both the Congress and RJD,” he said.

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April 19,2020

New Delhi, Apr 19: The government on Sunday prohibited the sale of non-essential items through e-commerce platforms during the ongoing lockdown, four days after allowing such companies to sale mobile phones, refrigerators and ready-made garments.

Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla issued an order excluding the non-essential items from sale by the e-commerce companies from the consolidated revised guidelines, which listed the exemption given to the services and people from the purview of the lockdown.

The order said the following clause "E-commerce companies. Vehicles used by e-commerce operators will be allowed to ply with necessary permissions" is excluded from the guidelines.

The previous order had said such items were allowed for sale through e-commerce platforms from April 20.

However, the reason for reversing the order is not known immediately.

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February 6,2020

Bijnor, Feb 6: Apprehensions over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) are now so strong that a team of economic enumerators were allegedly manhandled in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district and faced stiff resistance from the people.

A team of the economic census enumerators in Bijnor, on Wednesday, sent a letter to the District Magistrate narrating the difficulties they are facing in some parts "due to misinformation".

District magistrate Ramakant Pandey, when contacted, said that he had asked the department concerned to complete the work on time. "If teams are facing any problems, we will sort it out at once. No hurdle in economic census will be tolerated," he said.

According to District Economic and Statistics Officer, Harendra Malik: "Our teams are facing protests in minority-dominated areas as people are linking it to the NRC. Some team members were manhandled.

"We have now asked village heads and municipality chairmen to help our teams in the survey and convince the people. Our teams are trying to convince them that it is a routine work which is being carried out for years. It has nothing to do with the NRC or CAA."

He further said that they plan to hold a series of meetings with people's representatives, including village heads and chairmen, so that they could put an end to this confusion.

The seventh economic census was flagged off in Bijnor by District Magistrate Ramakant Pandey on January 6. There are around 3,000 enumerators and 569 supervisors engaged in the census being carried out under the supervision of economic and statistics department. It is expected to be completed by March 31.

The economic census is aimed at collecting data about the financial status of people engaged in unorganised sector.

Meanwhile, the areas where the enumerators are facing stiff resistance include Kalhari village in Najibabad block, Amipur Narain village in Mohammadpur Devmal block, Anisa Nangli village in Dwarka block and the Mirzapur Bella village in Jalilpur block.

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Agencies
August 8,2020

Kozhikode, Aug 8: The death toll in Kozhikode air crash is likely to rise as the condition of 22 injured passengers is said to be extremely critical. A total of 149 injured passengers have been admitted to hospitals in Malappuram and Kozhikode districts. 22 others have been discharged after first aid, says K Gopalakrishnan, Malappuram Collector

Deceased passengers:
Mohammed Riyas VP, 24 years - Palakkad, 
Saheer Sayed, 38 years -Malappuram, 
Lailabi KV, 51 years -Malappuram, 
Rajeevan Cherikka Parambil, 61 years - Kozhikode, 
Manal Ahamed, 25 years - Kozhikode, 
Sharafudheen, 35 years - Kozhikode, 
Janaky Kunnoth, 55 years - Kozhikode, 
Azam Muhammed Chembayi ,1 year - Kozhikode, 
Santha Marakkat, 59 years - Malappuram, 
Sudheer Vaariyath, 45 years -Malappuram, 
Sheza Fathima, 2 years -Malappuram, 
Remya Muraleedharan, 32 years - Kozhikode
Aysha Dua, 2 years – Palakkad 
Shivathmika, 5 Years- Kozhikode
Zhenobia, 40 years – Kozhikode
Sahira Banu, 29 years - Kozhikode

Deceased crew:
Deepak Sathe (Pilot)
Akhilesh Kumar (Copilot)

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