Travelling by road from Kolkata to New Delhi will be costlier as the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to hike new tariffs in toll plazas. There are several toll plazas starting from Dankuni, Palsit (in the Dankuni to Palsit stretch), Banskopa in West Bengal and then Chirkunda in Jharkhand (in Banskopa to Barwadda stretch) etc.
The brief monsoon session of the Uttar Pradesh legislature starting on Monday, the first after the Lok Sabha polls, is expected to be stormy, with the principal opposition Samajwadi Party trying to gain political mileage inside the assembly after its Lok Sabha victory.
Political observers interpret this as a signal of the potential return of the coalition era.
As per the ECI, Jharkhand is leading the voter turnout charts at 60.14 per cent till 3 pm.
Raju Bista, who has contested Lok Sabha Polls from Darjeeling for the second time on a BJP ticket, is still working to stop illegal mining in Kalimpong, where a private company has caused environmental damage.
The former Congress president may file his nomination from the Amethi seat after the polling in the Wayanad seat to be held on April 26
The party decided to field Satyapal Singh Sikarwar Neetu from Morena, Praveen Pathak from Gwalior and Narendra Patel from the Khandwa Lok Sabha constituency.
“The way the BJP government played with democracy and their leaders are pledging to change the constitution it becomes clear that if they come to power, both these institutions will be in jeopardy,” he said.
One year has passed but the cops have failed to crack the two high-profile murder cases of two hoteliers of West Burdwan district as law and order is going to be a key issue in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls.
The Union minister was addressing a series of election meetings in the upper reaches of Ramban and Banihal across the Pir Panjal.
