The era of the defectors
Ajit Pawar became deputy chief minister, and a handful of MLAs who defected with him were given ministerial posts. The venal move is presumably aimed at foiling opposition unity.
Ajit Pawar became deputy chief minister, and a handful of MLAs who defected with him were given ministerial posts. The venal move is presumably aimed at foiling opposition unity.
British MPs will on Monday vote on an inquiry report by a UK Parliamentary committee that revealed former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has deliberately misled the House of Commons over breaches during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Johnson said that he was "bewildered and appalled" after receiving a letter from the from a House of Commons committee.
The new Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak officially become the British prime minister following his meeting with King Charles III, where he was asked to form the next government.
Sunak had thanked supporters who backed him in the Conservative Party race and said now it was time for all of them to unite behind the new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss.
The French leader's visit to London came on the 80th anniversary of a famous speech made by French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle in a BBC radio broadcast directed at people in Nazi-occupied France.
During February and March, opportunities to suppress the spread of the infection by introducing travel restrictions and quarantine requirements were missed, allowing the infection to be brought into the UK on at least 1,300 occasions.
All children eligible for free school meals in term time will now be the beneficiaries of the "COVID summer food fund".
As many high schools in England also partially re-opened on Monday, thousands of students were heading back to classrooms, with smaller class sizes, for the first time in months.
Police have boarded up prominent statues around London ahead of a new wave of demonstrations and rallies this weekend.