Digest year-ender
for domestic stories for month of August, 2018
Aug
1: New Delhi: With 40 lakh people failing to get their names on the draft
National Register for Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the poll panel today said an
exclusion from this list would not automatically result in their removal from
the electoral rolls as registration of voters is decided by the election laws.
Aug
2: New Delhi: Antiguan authorities have confirmed that Mehul Choksi, the
alleged mastermind of the USD 2 billion scam and uncle of Nirav Modi, is in
their country, officials here said today, adding that a move to extradite him
will be initiated soon.
Aug
3: Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje is set to begin tomorrow a
58-day, 6,000-km`yatra' that will roll through 165 assembly constituencies of
the state which goes to the polls later this year.
Aug
4: New Delhi: In a show of solidarity, leaders of a number of opposition
parties including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi joined the RJD at a protest at
Jantar Mantar here over the alleged rape of young girls at a shelter-home in
Bihar's Muzaffarpur and demanded that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar take
immediate action against the accused.
Aug
5: New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has given assent to a law that will
deter fugitive economic offenders to evade legal process in India and flee the
country.
Aug
6: New Delhi: Justice K M Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High
Court, will take oath as a judge of the Supreme Court as scheduled tomorrow
amid a row with the Centre over his seniority being lowered on his elevation.
Aug
7: Chandigarh: AAP dissidents in Punjab today announced their own ad hoc
political affairs committee (PAC), saying the panel will restructure the
party's organisation and choose a new president for the state unit.
Aug
8: New Delhi: The Competition Commission today said it has cleared US retail
giant Walmart's proposed acquisition of Flipkart, a deal estimated to be worth
USD 16 billion.
Aug
9: New Delhi: The ruling NDA today comfortably bagged the post of deputy
chairman of the Rajya Sabha with journalist-turned politician Harivansh of the
JD(U) beating Congress' B K Hariprasad in an election that was seen as a test
for the opposition unity ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Aug
10: New Delhi: As many as 20 bills were passed by both Houses in the Monsoon
Session of Parliament which concluded today and the productivity of Lok Sabha
was 118 per cent, while that of Rajya Sabha 74 per cent.
Aug
11: New Delhi: A special Fugitive Economic Offenders Act court in Mumbai today
issued public summons to the sister and brother of absconding diamantaire Nirav
Modi, the main accused in the USD 2 billion bank fraud case, asking them to
appear before it on September 25.
Aug
12: New Delhi: As many as 774 people have died in incidents related to floods
and rains in seven states during the monsoon season so far, the Home Ministry said
today.
Aug
13: Kolkata/New Delhi: Communist veteran and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath
Chatterjee passed away at a private hospital here this morning following
multiple organ failure. He was 89.
Aug
14: Thiruvananthapuram: Torrential rains, overflowing rivers and a series of
landslides ravaged Kerala, where 40 lives have been lost so far.
Aug
15: Mumbai: Former India cricket captain Ajit Wadekar, who led the team to
path-breaking Test wins in England and the West Indies, passed away today after
prolonged illness.
Aug
16: New Delhi: Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, one of India's most
charismatic leaders who led the nation through several crises while holding
together a tenuous coalition with his inclusive politics and superlative
oratory, died here today. He was 93.
Aug
17: Thiruvananthapuram: As a murderous monsoon savaged Kerala claiming 106
lives on a single day yesterday, the state plunged deeper into misery today
with hospitals facing shortage of oxygen and fuel stations running dry, officials
said.
Aug
18: New Delhi/Mumbai: The CBI today arrested the alleged main shooter in the
anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar murder case in Maharashtra,
officials said.
Aug
19: Chandigarh/Attari: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today ticked off
Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu for hugging Pakistan army chief, who, he
said, was responsible for the killings of Indian soldiers on the border, even
as the cricketer-turned-politician defended his action.
Aug
20: New Delhi: The massive floods in Kerala have been declared a calamity of
severe nature, the Home Ministry said today.
Aug
21: New Delhi: Bihar Governor Satya Pal Malik was today shifted to
militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir in a gubernatorial reshuffle that marked the
end of over a 10-year tenure of N N
Vohra and also the appointment of a politician to the crucial post in more than
five decades.
Aug
22: New Delhi: Congress veteran Gurudas Kamat, a Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist
who was known for his forthrightness throughout his career spanning over four
decades, died here today after suffering a heart attack, family sources said.
Aug
23: New Delhi: In the wake of Kerala floods, a disaster management
sub-committee to monitor the water level of Mullaperiyar Dam today asked Tamil
Nadu to keep water limit of the reservoir 2-3 feet below the 142-feet FRL mark
till August 31, a senior official in the Water Resources Ministry said.
Aug
24: Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan today
claimed there was no lack of clarity on UAE aid for the flood-ravaged state and
expressed hope the Centre would accept the "offer" of Rs 700 crore.
Aug
25: New Delhi: Gearing up for the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Congress today
formed three crucial committees to look after coordination, manifesto and
publicity in the polls, with the old guard maintaining its position in the core
set up under party president Rahul Gandhi.
Aug
26: New Delhi: Describing the debate on holding Lok Sabha and assembly polls
together a healthy sign for democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said
it was an appropriate tribute to former premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee who
changed the country's political culture.
Aug
27: New Delhi: A number of opposition parties today demanded reverting to the
old system of paper ballot as they questioned the reliability of EVMs,
following which the Election Commission said it would provide
"satisfactory solution" to their concerns.
Aug
28: Pune (Maha): Maharashtra police today raided the homes of prominent
Left-wing activists in several states and arrested at least five of them for
suspected Maoist links, sparking a chorus of outraged protests from human
rights defenders.
Aug
29: New Delhi/Pune: The Pune police's bid for immediate custody of the five
noted rights activists arrested yesterday for suspected Maoist links was today
halted by the Supreme Court which ordered they be kept under house arrest till
September 6.
Aug
30: New Delhi: Author Arundhati Roy and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani along with
several other civil society members today demanded action against the
Maharashtra Police for launching a "vicious and malafide attack"
against human rights activists across the country and called for an immediate
end to "such political acts of vendetta".
Aug
31: Srinagar: Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo today claimed
responsibility for the abduction of Kashmiri policemen's relatives and set a
three-day deadline for the release of all relatives of terrorists who are in
police custody, according to an audio clip circulating on social media.
(Source PTI)
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