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Manohar Parrikar quits, next Goa CM to be announced this evening

November 8, 2014

Manohar Parrikar copyNew Delhi/Goa, Nov 8: Manohar Parrikar, who is tipped to be inducted in the Union Cabinet which will be expanded on Sunday, resigned as Goa chief minister on Saturday.

Parrikar faxed his resignation to Goa governor Mridula Sinha, who is out of station.

The governor is likely to arrive in the state in time for the swearing-in ceremony of the new chief minister. The swearing-in ceremony of the next chief minister is to take place in evening.

BJP parliamentary board meets to decide new leader in Goa

The BJP parliamentary board met in Delhi on Saturday and discussed the issue of appointment of its new legislature party leader in Goa, who will replace Manohar Parrikar as the chief minister.

Party general secretary J P Nadda said that the parliamentary board discussed the political situation in Goa as well as the name of BJP nominee for a Rajya Sabha seat from Uttar Pradesh.

A final decision will be announced at 4pm today, Nadda said.

The meeting was chaired by BJP president Amit Shah.

The race for the Goa chief minister's post has intensified with deputy chief minister Francis D'Souza throwing his hat into the ring while health minister Laxmikant Parsekar has emerged as the front-runner to succeed Parrikar. Names of other leaders have also been doing rounds for the position.

BJP's Goa state MLAs are also scheduled to hold a meeting at 12.30pm on the issue of choosing their new leader.

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May 21,2020

New Delhi, May 21: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary.

Former prime minister Gandhi was assassinated on this day in 1991 in Tamil Nadu's Sriperumbudur by a suicide bomber during an election campaign.
 
"On his death anniversary, tributes to former PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi," Modi tweeted.

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February 3,2020

New Delhi, Feb 3: The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted bail to former BJP leader Swami Chinmayanand in the alleged rape case of a law student. He was arrested in September last year after the 23-year-old woman accused him of sexual harassment and blackmail.

The woman was a student of the Chinmayanand-controlled SS Law College in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Chinmayanand is facing charges under Sections 376C (sexual intercourse by a person or persons taking advantage of their official position), 354 D (stalking), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The case is being investigated by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed on the directions of the Supreme Court.

The case came to light after the woman posted a video on August 23 last year on social media alleging that “a senior leader of the saint community” was harassing and threatening to kill her. The law student went missing a day later, after which her father lodged a complaint, accusing Chinmayanand of harassing his daughter.

Chinmayanand was expelled from the BJP after his arrest.

The SIT had, on November 6, submitted chargesheet in the case.

In a parallel case, the woman was charged with trying to extort money from Chinmayanad. The Allahabad High Court granted her bail in that case in December last year.

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April 2,2020

Chandigarh, April 2: A 59-year-old woman and her 10-month-old granddaughter have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Chandigarh on Thursday.

According to the Chandigarh Health Department, they are family contacts of the NRI couple that tested positive for COVID-19 earlier.
With this, the total cases in the Union Territory rose to 18.

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country climbed to 1,965 on Thursday, after as many as 328 new cases were reported, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. So far, at least 50 people have lost their lives due to the virus.

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