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In other news, the period of pain and inconveniences is getting over and economic activity is being restored, says finance minister Arun Jaitley
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Narendra Modi says govt will engage with ethnic Indian community overseas
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government will engage with the ethnic Indian community overseas, particularly the youth. He was speaking at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in Bengaluru. The event is held on 9 January to mark the return of Mahatma Gandhi as a Pravasi from South Africa to India. This year, Indian origin Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa was the chief guest. Read more
Mulayam Singh Yadav asserts he is still Samajwadi Party president
In yet another twist to the feud within the Samajwadi Party (SP), Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said he continues as the party’s national president, rejecting his son and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s claim to the post. Read more
Narendra Modi likely to visit Israel in first half of this year
With India and Israel marking 25 years of diplomatic relations this month, both countries are hoping to exchange prime ministerial visits before the anniversary year closes in January 2018. The first trip is likely to be that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Jewish state, that has rapidly become one of India’s key strategic partners, in the first half of 2017. Read more
Money has lost anonymity post demonetisation: Arun Jaitley
The period of pain and inconveniences is getting over and economic activity is being restored, finance minister Arun Jaitley wrote in his Facebook post on Sunday, marking the completion of two months since the government announced its decision to invalidate high value currency. Read more
Parliamentary committee to question RBI governor Urjit Patel on cash crunch
A parliamentary committee, probing the government’s decision to scrap high-value bank notes, has sent the country’s central bank governor a list of questions on the demonetisation process and asked him to appear before it on 20 January. Read more
Puducherry L-G Kiran Bedi to resign in 2018
Puducherry lieutenant governor (L-G) Kiran Bedi said she will quit on 29 May 2018, when she completes two years in office, in an open letter to the people of the Union territory on Saturday. This comes amid growing power struggle between Bedi and chief minister V. Narayanasamy. Read more
UP assembly polls: BSP announces final list of candidates
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Sunday announced its final list of candidates for 101 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh. With this announcement, the party has so far released a list of 401 candidates. The names of candidates for the remaining two seats in Sonebhadra will be decided after a decision is made if they are general or reserved for ST, a release issued by the party said. Read more
CPM warns Achuthanandan, denies him seat in party’s state committee
The Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM, has issued a warning to its founding member and senior-most national leader V.S. Achuthanandan for breaching party discipline. The decision was made at a a central committee meeting over the weekend in Thiruvananthapuram. Read more
BMC polls: Sena yet to get a formal response from BJP
Matoshree is yet to get a formal response from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on a pre-poll alliance with Shiv Sena for the upcoming BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) elections, Times of India reported. The state-wide civic and zilla parishad elections—including municipal corporations of Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik—are scheduled for February. A formal announcement is expected soon. Read more
Rose Valley probe gives fresh hope
The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) recent arrests of Bengal Trinamul MPs Tapas Paul and Sudip Bandyopadhyay over the Rose Valley chit fund scam have given fresh hope to thousands in Jharkhand who lost their savings in the murky scheme, the Telegraph reported. Read more
Abhiram Ghadyalpatil from Mumbai and Soumonty Kanungo from Kolkata contributed to this wrap.
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