On Thursday, a Delhi Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal cleared the purchase of 1,000 CNG low-floor buses for the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said. He added that the capital would have as many as 9,500 buses on its roads by May 2020. The plan for the fleet Delhi currently runs about 5,500 buses, counting both DTC and cluster services. Sisodia said the decisions taken on Thursday, together with earlier ones and those in the pipeline, would add 4,000 buses to the fleet.Read More

Union Home Minister and BJP president Amit Shah was scheduled to chair a meeting in New Delhi on Friday on the crisis in Goa’s mining sector. Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, who also handles the mining portfolio, was to attend. The meeting A statement issued in Panaji on Thursday by the Chief Minister’s Office said Sawant would take part in the high-level meeting on Goa mining, which Shah would chair together with Union Mines Minister Pralhad Joshi. The meeting was fixed for 4 pm on Friday. The state’s Advocate General,Read More

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told the Lok Sabha on Thursday that farmers across India were in a terrible state, prompting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to reply that those who had governed the country for decades were to blame. Gandhi raised the issue during Zero Hour in a short maiden speech in the 17th Lok Sabha, concentrating on Kerala and on farmers in Wayanad, the constituency that elected him. Gandhi’s charges Gandhi asked the Prime Minister to improve the lot of farmers. He said a farmer in Wayanad had taken hisRead More

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday met her party’s MLAs in Kolkata and told them to be more humble with the public and, where necessary, to apologise for past mistakes. It was her first meeting with the legislators since the Lok Sabha election, in which the BJP took 18 of the state’s 42 seats, only four fewer than the TMC. Message to MLAs A TMC MLA said the party chief had asked all legislators to connect with ordinary people and to say sorry forRead More

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to host women MPs of the BJP for breakfast at his official residence in New Delhi on Friday, sources said on Thursday. It would be his fifth meeting in a series the party has organised for its parliamentarians. The series of meetings A total of seven such meetings have been planned, with the party’s MPs split into seven groups. Modi has already met MPs from the OBC, SC and ST categories, as well as those who had previously served as ministers. A BJP leader saidRead More