President Droupadi Murmu presented four Padma Vibhushan, 10 Padma Bhushan, and 57 Padma Shri Awards for the year 2025 at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-I, held at the Ganatantra Mandap of the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday slammed Congress MP Digvijay Singh for comparing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) with the Popular Front of India (PFI) organisation and said that he should be "ashamed" for doing so.
The matter came up as CPI Member of Parliament Binoy Viswam had asked a question about the sexual violence within marriages during the Question Hour.
The development assumes significance in the light of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi focussing his attention in the Muslimdominated Seemanchal region of Bihar.
“It is certain that the elections can’t be held in a conventional manner due to the Corona fear. They could be held on the line of recently held polling in South Korea which strictly maintained social distance at the polling booth,” Modi told the local media.
Now that the Centre has eased lockdown restrictions allowing the States to bring back migrant workers, students and pilgrims stranded across the country, the Bihar government now says that it is not possible to bring all of them back home by buses.
This was clearly visible on Monday again when a Press Conference organised by the BJP in Gaya over the issue of CAA was used to mount heavy attacks on Prasad, currently undergoing treatment at a government hospital in Ranchi under judicial custody.
While the deputy chief minister and senior-most BJP leader from Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi declared that the updation process of the contentious NPR would begin from May, the JD-U has rejected such announcement saying no such decision has been taken by the state government so far.
Sounds bizarre but that’s what reveals the details of assets as declared by the ministers in the year-end.
The revelation came to the fore after RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav tweeted the video of Modi’s speech on Friday, generating fiery debates on social media.
