Morning Digest: Heavy security for today’s Phase I polling in West Bengal and Assam; In Bangladesh, Modi calls for joint fight against terror, and more

30 Assembly seats throughout 5 districts of West Bengal and 47 of Assam’s 126 constituencies go to polls on March 27.

Contemporary Bangladesh was created with the blood of freedom-loving individuals, and of the Indian troopers who have been martyred in the War of Liberation of 1971, mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Dhaka on Friday.

U.S. President Joe Biden will host a digital ‘Leaders Summit on Climate’ on April 22 and 23, with 40 world leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

There is not any direct causal relation established between deaths and COVID-19 vaccination with adversarial occasions reported being effectively inside the anticipated numbers, mentioned the knowledgeable group investigating the adversarial occasions following immunisation (AEFI).

In view of the spiralling variety of COVID-19 instances in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday instructed authorities to impose an evening curfew throughout all the State starting Sunday night time (March 28).

Phase 1 of elections on Saturday to the 126-member Assam Assembly is predicted to check the impression of the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act motion and the loyalty of “tea tribes” or Adivasi voters.

The Centre has solely rejected 4.3% of all Right to Information (RTI) requests in 2019-20, the bottom ever price, based on the Central Information Commission’s annual report.

In part one of many Assembly election, 30 seats in West Bengal will go to the polls on March 27. Over 90% of the individuals in these seats are from rural areas. The share of ST inhabitants in these seats is almost thrice that of the State’s total share. About 20% of households in part 1 rely on cultivation for their main revenue.

The Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, determined to go for a judicial probe after Ministers are learnt to have averred that the probes have been being diverted for political positive factors of the ruling entrance on the Centre and scuttling improvement initiatives.

The Gujarat Government is more likely to introduce a Bill in search of to penalise forcible or fraudulent non secular conversion by marriage in the State Assembly subsequent week.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday despatched a video message to Bangladesh on the event of Golden Jubilee celebrations of the nation’s independence and delivery centenary celebrations of Banga Bandhu, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.