Amit Shah sets seat target in UP; Rahul Gandhi, Sitharaman clash over IDBI Bank sale
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited Lucknow ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, setting a 313-seat target for the Bharatiya Janata Party, proposing the Uniform Civil Code, and challenging the Samajwadi Party and Congress to a parliamentary debate regarding the Election Commission. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav contested the claims following MLC election results where the BJP won six seats and the SP secured five. In Parliament, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman clashed over the IDBI Bank disinvestment process. A broadcast report examined IDBI Bank's financial turnaround, citing gross non-performing assets falling below 2% and five-year profits reaching 35,000 crore rupees. A panel featuring former Finance Secretary S.C. Garg and political analyst Rajat Sethi debated the 81-rupee share valuation and bidding by Fairfax Holdings. Additionally, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav outlined the Commission for Air Quality Management's integrated command system, detailing anti-dust measures, real-time hotspot tracking, and municipal coordination across 53 local bodies in Delhi-NCR.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah visited Lucknow ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, setting a 313-seat target for the Bharatiya Janata Party, proposing the Uniform Civil Code, and challenging the Samajwadi Party and Congress to a parliamentary debate regarding the Election Commission. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav contested the claims following MLC election results where the BJP won six seats and the SP secured five. In Parliament, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman clashed over the IDBI Bank disinvestment process. A broadcast report examined IDBI Bank's financial turnaround, citing gross non-performing assets falling below 2% and five-year profits reaching 35,000 crore rupees. A panel featuring former Finance Secretary S.C. Garg and political analyst Rajat Sethi debated the 81-rupee share valuation and bidding by Fairfax Holdings. Additionally, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav outlined the Commission for Air Quality Management's integrated command system, detailing anti-dust measures, real-time hotspot tracking, and municipal coordination across 53 local bodies in Delhi-NCR.
The Bihar Museum in Patna has earned global recognition after being ranked ninth in the world's top 100 museums by international travel magazine Worth A Journey. The prestigious ranking places the Patna museum ahead of prominent cultural institutions including Paris's Louvre and New York's Met Museum. Industrialist Anand Mahindra praised the milestone on social media, referring to it as a seminal moment of recognition. Highlighted as the image of the day, the news bulletin noted that the museum documents the rich history of Bihar and the ancient city of Pataliputra, with credit given to Nitish Kumar and his administration for conceptualising the initiative.
An alleged multi-crore bank fraud has hit a Punjab National Bank branch in Sector Pi 1 of Greater Noida, with approximately 22 crore rupees reported missing from savings accounts and fixed deposits. Victims include families who deposited land compensation received for the Jewar International Airport project. Preliminary findings reveal funds were siphoned off to accounts in Jharkhand. Following 37 complaints lodged with the police, bank authorities filed a complaint with the CBI, which has registered a First Information Report. The bank has suspended five employees and replaced the remaining branch staff, while assuring genuine customers that their lost funds will be refunded.
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