With less than a year left for the Assembly Election in West Bengal, the Election Commission (EC) has directed the Mamata Banerjee government to “delink” the office of Chief Electoral Officer (West Bengal) from its home department, create a election department with financial autonomy and fill up the vacant posts under it.
The government has agreed to a 16-hour-long debate in Parliament on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, but next week, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from an overseas visit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the UK on July 23rd and 24th, 2025. This trip is at the invitation of the UK Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. It will be Prime Minister Modi’s fourth time visiting the UK.
The Congress on Tuesday (July 22, 2025) claimed that there are “far deeper reasons” for Jagdeep Dhankhar’s resignation as the Vice-President than the health reasons cited by him, and said his resignation speaks highly of him but poorly of those who got him elected to the post.
The Government is open to discussing all issues in Parliament, including Operation Sindoor, it said in an all-party meeting held on the eve of the monsoon session, which begins on Monday (July 21, 2025).
A mega-dam is being built by China on a river through Tibet and India, with Premier Li Qiang attending the commencement ceremony. However, this mega-dam can have a potential impact on millions of people in India and Bangladesh.
Industry and commerce minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that free trade agreement between India and the four-nation European bloc EFTA will come into force from October 1,2025.
Ahead of the monsoon session in the Lok Sabha on 21 July, INDIA allies are scheduled to hold an online meeting tomorrow. One may read between the lines that Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party are giving it a miss.
