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  • TN Assembly Election |  Amit Shah assured the NDA of the coalition government’s trust in the election to be held on April 6.

    TN Assembly Election | Amit Shah assured the NDA of the coalition government’s trust in the election to be held on April 6.

    Amit Shah said that he was confident that the NDA coalition government would come to power in the state after the April 6 assembly elections.

    Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched his party’s campaign for the April 6 Lok Sabha by-election in Kanyakumari on 7 March and expressed confidence that the party will not only win here, but also win the NDA next month’s assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. .

    Launching his “Vetri Kodi Indhi” (raising Vijay’s flag) from Susendiram in this district, he said that he was confident that the NDA coalition government would come to power in the state after the April 6 assembly elections.

    The party has fielded former Union Minister Pon. Radhakrishnan for the Lok Sabha by-election, due to COVID-19 last year Congress MP H.K. Due to the death of Vasant Kumar became necessary.

    Continuing his party’s campaign with Mr. Radhakrishnan and senior BJP leaders in the state, Mr. Shah said he visited 11 houses to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message. “We have launched a campaign to take BJP’s Lotus symbol door-to-door,” he said. “I am sure of the result [of the polls]Seeing the enthusiasm of the people in the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat as well as in the assembly elections, he said that to ensure that the NDA would be victorious in the elections.

    “I am confident that the AIADMK-BJP-PMK coalition government will form [after the Assembly polls],” she added.

    The BJP senior distributed leaflets, interacted with people and took pictures with some of them.

    In Tamil Nadu, on March 5, the ruling AIADMK and BJP signed a seat-sharing deal, with the former partner, the key partner, allocating 20 assembly seats for his saffron ally and the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat.

    The BJP nominated Mr. Radhakrishnan as its candidate from Kanyakumari. Although he won from the same segment in 2014, he lost to Kumar after five years.

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  • West Bengal Assembly Election |  PM Modi to address rally on 7 March at Brigade Maidan

    West Bengal Assembly Election | PM Modi to address rally on 7 March at Brigade Maidan

    The BJP, which came up with the first two-phase candidate list on Friday, decided to postpone it for the brigade rally.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi will intensify BJP’s campaign for the high-octane assembly elections to be held in West Bengal with a mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground here on Sunday.

    The Prime Minister’s Sunday rally is said to be the culmination of a “Parivartan Yatra” initiated by the saffron party during elections in Bengal in February this year.

    A BJP leader said, “The Prime Minister will set the tone of the election campaign with a rally in the brigade grounds.”

    Sunday’s rally will be the saffron party’s first major event in West Bengal after the announcement of eight phase elections in the state.

    The BJP plans to make it a resounding success with a record crowd presence that has never been seen in the prestigious ground.

    The BJP, which came up with the first two-phase candidate list on Friday, decided to postpone it for the brigade rally.

    BJP leader Rahul Sinha said, “We have decided to release the candidate list for the brigade rally. Once it is over, we will come out with our list.”

    Several senior BJP leaders will be present at the rally with Modi.

    According to BJP sources, the rally may surprise some as celebrities, including Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty.

    A senior BJP leader said, “He may be present at the rally tomorrow. Let’s see what happens.”

    However, BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said that nothing has been discussed regarding Mr. Chakraborty’s involvement in the saffron camp.

    Once considered close to the CPI (M), Mr. Chakraborty was a Rajya Sabha MP for TMC for a few years, before resigning, expressing a desire to quit politics.

    The BJP is launching new campaigns ranging from social media to the streets.

    Party activists have been hosting flash mobs in several places across the state for the past few weeks, including large crowds of people on busy traffic intersections and crowded areas on Sunday.

    After a limited presence in a politically polarized state for decades, the BJP has emerged as the main rival to the ruling Trinamool Congress, winning 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 general elections in West Bengal, only four short of the TMC’s 22 .

    With the strength of the BJP growing in the state over the years, its leaders are excited that the party will end Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s 10-year rule in the state elections.

    The elections to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly will be held in eight phases starting on March 27 with voting for 30 seats.

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already pulled the blueprint of the war with the announcement of the TMC candidate list on Friday.

    Ms. Banerjee, who was the head of the Trinamool Congress, announced the names of 291 candidates and left three seats for the ally Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) in Darjeeling.

    Congress-Left Front-Indian Secular Front Muslim religious leader Abbas Siddiqui has joined hands to challenge the TMC as well as the BJP in the Battle of Bengal.

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  • Farmers in Haryana are blocking the highway in protest against farm laws

    Farmers in Haryana are blocking the highway in protest against farm laws

    Agitating farmers blocked the 135-km-long Kundali-Manesar-Palwal Expressway at several places on Saturday in protest against the call of farmer unions against the farmers’ laws. The protests caused traffic snarls and variations at many points.

    In the wake of the call of Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a united front of the peasant unions, the protesting farmers gathered at several points along the road and blocked the road around 11 am to block the highway for five hours. As per early reports, Sonepat and Jhajjar had two pointers each.

    Protest of farmers The leader of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha took a tough stance on the demands.

    Jashandeep Singh Randhawa, Superintendent of Police, Sonipat told Hindu The protesters resorted to blockade in Kundli and Kharkhauda, ​​causing traffic jams.

    Also read: Farm to join hands against farm laws, labor codes, trade unions

    In Jhajjar, farmers made blockades in Badli and Aasoda and traffic was diverted at ten points. However, Jhajjar police claimed that the flow of traffic is smooth.

    Manesar Deputy Commissioner of Police Varun Singla said that traffic going towards the KMP Expressway was diverted to Farrukhnagar in Gurugram in view of the blockade in Jhajjar to avoid traffic jam and inconvenience to passengers.

    SKM had announced that they would make blockades on the KMP Expressway from 11 am to 4 pm and make all toll plazas free.

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  • Rahul Gandhi said that the government has put nails for those whose sons risk their lives on the borders of the country.

    Rahul Gandhi said that the government has put nails for those whose sons risk their lives on the borders of the country.

    On March 6, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the Center over farmers’ protests and said that on the borders of Delhi, there were spikes for those whose sons risk their lives on the country’s borders.

    Read also: Farmers in Haryana are blocking the highway in protest against farm laws

    After entering the 100th day of the peasants’ movement, Mr. Gandhi was attacked by protesting union leaders, saying that their movement was too far away and that they were “getting stronger”.

    In a tweet in Hindi, Mr. Gandhi said, “For those whose sons risk their lives on the borders of the country, nails have been put on the borders of Delhi. Annadata demands their rights, the government commits atrocities. “Congress leaders are supporting the farmers’ protest against the three central agricultural laws and have attacked the government on several occasions.

    Farmers, mostly in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, have been camping at several Delhi border points, including Tikri, Singhu and Ghazipur, since November 28, to completely repeal three farm laws and legalize minimum support prices. Demand for a guarantee. (MSP) for their crops.

    Also read: Protest of farmers The leader of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha took a tough stance on the demands.

    The government has denied allegations that it was trying to end the MSP and Mandi system. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also assured the farmers that the MSP will continue.

    Farmer leaders have already made it clear that they will do nothing for less than the repeal of the new agricultural laws.

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  • PM Modi says that $ 82 billion is being invested in ports

    PM Modi says that $ 82 billion is being invested in ports

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would invest $ 82 billion in port projects by 2035, increase the share of clean renewable energy source in the maritime sector, develop waterways and promote tourism.

    Speaking at the Maritime India Summit, he invited global investors to invest in Indian ports, shipyards and waterways.

    Under the Sagarmala project, more than 574 projects have been identified for implementation between 2015 and 2035 costing $ 82 billion or ₹ 6 lakh crore.

    He said that the government wants to operate 23 waterways by 2030.

    “Our government is a government that is investing in waterways in a way never seen before. Domestic waterways are effective and environmentally friendly modes of freight transportation, ”he said.

    In addition, plans have been drawn up to develop tourism on the land adjoining 78 out of 189 lighthouses on Indian coastline.

    “It is aimed at the development of existing lighthouses and its surrounding areas into unique maritime tourist destinations,” he said, adding that the government has also initiated the overall development of the islands.

    Also, clean renewable energy is being used in the maritime sector.

    “We are in the process of installing solar and wind based power systems in all major ports across the country. We aim to increase the use of renewable energy in Indian ports in three phases to more than 60 percent of all energy by 2030.

    Shri Modi said that Indian ports have reduced waiting time for incoming and outgoing cargo. “India is very serious about growing in the maritime sector and emerging as the world’s leading blue economy,” he said.

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  • PLI plan likely to boost India’s manufacturing output to $ 520 billion in 5 years: PM Modi

    PLI plan likely to boost India’s manufacturing output to $ 520 billion in 5 years: PM Modi

    The Prime Minister said the government was working to reduce the compliance burden, further ease of doing business and cut logistics costs for the industry.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, which aims to boost domestic manufacturing and exports, is expected to increase the country’s production by $ 520 billion over the next five years.

    Addressing a webinar on the PLI scheme organized through a video conference organized by the Department of Industry and International Trade (DPIIT) and NITI Aayog, Mr. Modi said that the government is continuously improving to promote domestic manufacturing.

    In this year’s budget, around ₹ 2 lakh crore was laid out for the PLI scheme for the next five years and “there is an expectation that this plan will result in a production increase of about $ 520 billion over the next five years”.

    He said that there is also an expectation that the existing workforce in the regions, which will take advantage of the PLI scheme, will be doubled and employment generation will also increase.

    The Prime Minister said the government was working to reduce the compliance burden, further ease of doing business and cut logistics costs for the industry.

    He said, “On average 5% is given as a production incentive. This means that PLI plans will generate USD 520 billion in India in the next five years.”

    Shri Modi said that in the last 6-7 years, many successful efforts have been made to encourage ‘Make in India’ at various levels.

    He emphasized the need to take a big leap, as well as increase the speed and scale to boost manufacturing as it would increase employment generation in the country.

    The Prime Minister said that the government is working to promote industry at every level, ease of trade, reduce compliance burden, create multi-modal infrastructure to reduce logistics costs, and build district-level export centers .

    “Our effort is to reduce the compliance burden (to the industry) by over 6,000,” he said.

    He said that the government believes that its interference in everything creates more problems than solutions and “hence, emphasis is being placed on self-regulation, self-verification, self-authentication”.

    “We have to attract state-of-the-art technology and maximum investment in areas related to our core competency,” he said.

    Underlining the difference between earlier schemes and the current government, the Prime Minister said that earlier industrial incentives used to be open-ended based input subsidies, now they have been targeted and demonstrated through a competitive process. Regarding the PLI benefit, he said that 13 areas have been brought under the purview of the scheme and this will benefit the entire ecosystem associated with these areas.

    “With PLI in auto and pharma, there will be very little foreign dependency related to raw materials for auto parts, medical equipment and medicines. The energy sector in the country will be modernized with the help of advanced cell batteries, solar PV modules and specialty. Steel, “He added that the entire agriculture sector would benefit by adding PLI for the textile and food processing sector.”

    Shri Modi said that the recently approved PLI scheme in manufacturing IT hardware and telecommunication equipment will lead to a tremendous increase in production and domestic value addition.

    He said that IT hardware is expected to produce Rs 3 lakh crore in four years and in 5 years the domestic price increase is expected to increase from the present 5-10 percent to 20-25 percent. There was an increase of about 2.5 lakh crore rupees in five years.

    The Prime Minister said, “We should be in a position to export 2 lakh crore rupees from it.”

    In the pharma sector, he said, investment of over Rs 15,000 crore is expected in the next 5-6 years under PLI, which will lead to an increase of Rs 3 lakh crore in pharma sales and Rs 2 lakh crore export growth.

    In addition, he said that confidence in Indian medicines, medical professionals and devices has increased worldwide and to honor this trust, the pharma sector must work on devising a long-term strategy to leverage it.

    Even during the epidemic, there was a fresh investment of around P1,300 crore in the field of mobile phones and electronic devices and thousands of new jobs were created.

    The Prime Minister also said that the United Nations has declared 2023 to be an international year and more than 70 countries came to support India’s proposal and unanimously accepted it in the United Nations General Assembly.

    “This is also a big opportunity for our farmers,” he said, urging the industry to launch a worldwide campaign in 2023 on the nutritional potential of millet or coarse grains to save people from getting sick.

    With this announcement, the demand for millet in the domestic market and abroad will increase rapidly and this will greatly benefit Indian farmers.

    He also urged the agriculture and food processing sector to take full advantage of this opportunity.

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  • Indian Mobile Retailers’ Body Slams Amazon, Traders Ask Government to Investigate into Company

    Indian Mobile Retailers’ Body Slams Amazon, Traders Ask Government to Investigate into Company

    New Delhi, March 2: The All India Mobile Retailers Association (AIMRA) has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stressing that Amazon’s operations in India should be suspended until a probe into the company is done. AIMRA, a trade union that represents more than 1.5 lakh mobile

    phone retailers in the country, said that Amazon, along with leading mobile brands, have joined hands to derail the retail industry and put small retailers’ life in danger.

    The association said that Amazon is doing business in India with the strategy of deftly dodging the regulators and politicians. E-commerce companies promote sales on their platforms through their own preferred sellers. OnePlus Hints Launch of OnePlus 9 Series via Online Teaser on Amazon India.

    “Unfortunately, E-commemrce companies often are the stakeholders of these preferred sellers. Since 2014, mobile brands have had exclusive tie-up for sales with these very preferred sellers. All stocks are given to the preferred seller so that the e-com platform can show non-involvement and do not suffer any implications,” Arvinder Khurana, National President, AIMRA in the letter that was sent to Modi on Monday.

    “This is basically a cover up of the alliance between brands and e-com companies to show that the word of the law is being followed, even though the spirit of the law is absent,” he added.

    To further cover up this exclusive cartel, “online selling is barred for local retailers by the brands and on the other hand the commission asked by E-com companies is as much as the margin allotted to the seller by the brand,” the mobile retailers’ industry body said.

    “Not only that, Amazon is using this ploy to register small traders but making it difficult for them to sell their products online with tough rules and miniscule margins,” Khurana argued. Amazon was yet to react to the AIMRA letter.

    After several years of growth, the India smartphone market exited 2020 at 150 million (15 crore) units, a 1.7 per cent (year-over-year) decline, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).

    Online channels were likely to account for a highest-ever 45 per cent share of smartphone sales in 2020. Among the online channels, Flipkart is likely to hold top position while Amazon will grow the fastest.

    According to Khurana, they have seven crore traders in India whereas Amazon shows only four lakh, out of which the top 35 sellers are doing nearly 80 per cent businesses.

    “Which is why it is imperative to curtail sales of each seller at 5 lakh to put an end to the fraudulent ways of all e-commerce businesses,” he emphasised.

    The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has also threatened to launch a nationwide campaign against the ecommerce giants for their alleged business malpractices and issues related to GST evasion.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Mar 02, 2021 07:26 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Kills on Indo-Bangladesh border due to crime: Jaishankar

    Kills on Indo-Bangladesh border due to crime: Jaishankar

    The statement is against the backdrop of rising incidents of killing of civilians in Bangladesh in 2020

    Foreign Minister S. According to Jaishankar, criminal activities are responsible for the killings along the India-Bangladesh border.

    In a joint press conference with his Bangladesh counterpart AK Abdul Moman in Dhaka on Thursday, Mr. Jaishankar said that India was partnering with the neighboring country in economic and health recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    “Every death is regrettable, but we also have to ask ourselves why the problem is there, and the problem is due to crime. So our common objective should be a crime-free death limit and I’m sure if we can get it right If we can, we can address this problem effectively, ”Mr. Jaishankar said that there has been an increase in many deaths. [of Bangladesh nationals] “Deep enough inside India”.

    The Indian statement comes against the backdrop of the increasing incidents of the killing of Bangladesh’s citizens in 2020. Dhaka Tribune, A report last December stated that the incidents of murders were the highest in a decade, 2020.

    However, Mr. Jaishankar highlighted extensive references to the India-Bangladesh relationship, which made India witness Bangladesh’s selection for the largest consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that Delhi had sent abroad. He reported that 9 million doses of the Covishield vaccine arrived in Bangladesh from the Serum Institute in Pune, India.

    ‘Rock Solid Relationships’

    India’s vaccine production received strong support from Mr. Moman. He said, “About 135 countries in the world have not yet received the COVID-19 vaccine, but our friend is India and we have a solid relationship with which we got the vaccine and everybody is very happy.” Bangladesh has purchased the COVID vaccine from the Serum Institute of India and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government is implementing the nationwide vaccination program very efficiently and effectively for free. “

    Mr. Memon said that the Bangabandhu-Bapu digital exhibition will be inaugurated in Dhaka in the coming days.

    Modi’s visit

    Mr. Jaishankar is paying a one-day visit to take stock of bilateral relations ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s March 26 plan, during which he will attend the Independence Day celebrations in Dhaka that mark half a century of the country’s independent existence Will be the symbol.

    He said that both sides reviewed the relationship and reviewed the issues that were being worked on.

    Teesta water issue

    The Teesta water sharing issue came up during the joint press conference. Mr. Jaishankar said, “We discussed it. There will be a meeting of our water resources secretaries very soon. The position of the Government of India has not changed. “

    “There is no domain where we are not working today. Our relationship covers every human activity. The more we do this, the more possibilities open up. Above all, we look at connectivity. If we can get connectivity between India and Bangladesh, then I can tell you that the geo-economics of the region will change. The Bay of Bengal will look very different, ”said Mr. Jaishankar. He also highlighted a possible role for Japan in bilateral connectivity projects between India and Bangladesh.

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  • Rahul accuses Modi government of conducting raids against farmers

    Rahul accuses Modi government of conducting raids against farmers

    Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday used three popular Hindi idioms to target the government and accused him of raiding those who are pro-farmer.

    A day after the income tax raids on the homes and offices of Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and others, Mr. Gandhi used the hashtag ‘ModiRaidsProFarmers’ with his tweet in Hindi to sarcasm at the government.

    In front of three popular Hindi idioms – ‘Aalgyon pe Nachna’, ‘Bhigi Billi Banana’ and ‘Khisiyani Billi Khamba Neche’ – Mr Gandhi said what he believed he meant in the present context.

    In his three covert attacks, he alleged that the central government dances the Income Tax Department to its tune, bends before the friendly media center and the central government kills those supporting the farmers.

    Pannu and Kashyap, as well as their partners who launched the now-defunct production house Phantom Films, ran 30 locations in Mumbai and Pune. Authorities said they were part of a tax evasion investigation against Phantom Films.

    Both Pannu and Kashyap, known to be vocal in their views on a range of issues, were shooting in Pune and are believed to have been interrogated by tax sleuths as part of preliminary inquiries to be held during the raid. was.

    The raids include Reliance Entertainment Group CEO Shibhashish Sarkar and some executives of celebrity and talent management companies covering KWAN and Ex.

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