Rajnath Singh briefs House panel on Agnipath schemeДЄhead of the monsoon session of Parliament, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday briefed the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Defence on the Agnipath scheme at the end of which the Opposition MPs submitted a memorandum demanding its immediate withdrawal. Jaishankar and the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi did not yield the desired result in restoring status quo ante prior to May 2020 at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Raising the issue of Chinese transgressions in Eastern Ladakh a week before the Monsoon session, the Congress on July 11 claimed that the July 7 talks between IndiaвЂ™s External Affairs Minister S. Lalit could not take up the case, which was listed as item number 30 on Monday, as the judges had to sit in a different combination at 2 p.m.Д¬ongress questions PMвЂ™s silence on Chinese inroads into Ladakh, demands debate in Parliament The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up as the first case on July 12 a plea for permanent bail on medical grounds by Telugu poet and an accused in the Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad case P. Twelve Lok Sabha MPs were present along with the two Rajya Sabha lawmakers Sanjay Raut and Priyanka Chaturvedi while the other RS MP Anil Desai, said to be a staunch supporter of the Thackeray faction, was in Delhi.Д«hima Koregaon case | Supreme Court to take up Varavara RaoвЂ™s plea for permanent bail today Seven Shiv Sena MPs skip meeting called by Uddhav ThackerayДЄmid raging speculation of a split within the Shiv Sena MPs, seven of the 19 Lok Sabha MPs were missing at a meeting of all lawmakers called by party chief and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at the latterвЂ™s residence вЂMatoshreeвЂ™ on Monday. When The Hindu contacted spokespersons of the islandвЂ™s Civil Aviation Authority and the Air Force, both said they were unaware of such a development.

President Gotabaya, who has promised to resign on July 13, was on Monday flown to an airbase near the main international airport in Katunayake, near Colombo, AFP reported. Sri Lanka on Monday was rife with speculation over President Gotabaya RajapaksaвЂ™s whereabouts, and uncertainty over the islandвЂ™s political future, two days after citizens mounted massive resistance against the two leaders over an unprecedented economic crisis. Political stalemate persists in Sri Lanka Situation under control in Goa, says CongressДЄ day after the Goa Congress leadership charged senior legislators Michael Lobo and Digambar Kamat with attempting to split the party by hobnobbing with the ruling BJP, the party on Monday moved disqualification petitions against the duo for вЂanti-party activitiesвЂ™ even as senior Congressman and MP Mukul Wasnik, sent as a troubleshooter to the coastal State, declared the situation to be вЂњunder control.вЂќ MuskвЂ™s lawyers that was included in a securities filing late on Monday. Twitter demanded on Monday that Elon Musk complete a proposed $44 billion takeover of the social media company, slamming the Tesla chiefвЂ™s withdrawal of his offer as вЂњinvalid and wrongful.вЂќ вЂњTwitter has breached none of its obligations under the Agreement,вЂќ attorneys for Twitter said in a letter to Mr. Twitter calls Musk merger withdrawal вЂinvalid and wrongfulвЂ™ The 66-year-old U.K.-based businessman did not comment further on the verdict handed down by a top court bench headed by Justice U.U. I am naturally disappointed, says Vijay Mallya on Supreme Court verdictДЇormer Kingfisher Airlines boss Vijay Mallya, who is based in Britain for over five years, on Monday expressed his disappointment at the Supreme Court verdict sentencing him to four months in a contempt case. Johnson, 58, was forced to step down after a frenzy of more than 50 resignations from his government, in opposition to his scandal-hit premiership. The leadership contest was triggered last week when Mr. Prime Minister to replace the outgoing Boris Johnson will be announced on September 5, the ruling Conservative party said on Monday, with 11 hopefuls currently vying for the job. Prime Minister to be announced on September 5 MurmuвЂ™sВ candidature earlier, things would have been different.

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