Comments
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah arrives in Goa today on a three-day visit during which he will kick off the party’s election campaign for the 2017 assembly election, likely to be scheduled in March. Shah will address around 10,000 booth-level workers at the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Stadium at Bambolim on Saturday.
The Election Commission is to hear today the hearing on a petition seeking disqualification of 21 AAP legislators in an ‘office of profit’ case after the MLAs questioned the validity of a second set of documents filed against them. The AAP legislators, whose appointment as parliamentary secretaries is under challenge, said the EC should consider only the first petition filed by Prashant Patel, who moved the plea before the poll body on which the President had sought opinion of the Commission. They said the Commission cannot consider the second set of documents filed by Patel after the President had already sought opinion on the first petition. They insisted the second set of documents were not maintainable. Patel, however, argued that the second set was not a fresh petition but a response to details sought by the EC. The MLAs were of the view that EC should have sought the details from Delhi government and not the petitioner.
A two-day conference of the Indian Cotton Federation will open in Coimbatore today. The theme of the conference is ‘Indian Cotton Scenario in the Current Context 2016-2017’. About 400 people, including cotton ginners, traders, textile industry representatives, and brokers are expected to take part. They will deliberate on cotton area, demand, supply and price the situation, and sustainable management practices.
Samsung’s next-generation flagship Note phablet, the Note 7, which was launched in New York on August 2, will be available for buying in the US from today. The Note 7, launched in India on August 11, will be available at a price of Rs. 59,900 from September 2. A stand-out feature of the Note 7 is its water resistance rating.
Today, August 19, is observed as World Photography Day, which aims to inspire photographers across the planet to share a single photo with a simple purpose: to share their world with the world. World Photo Day originates from the invention of the Daguerreotype, a photographic process developed by Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1837.
Comments
COMMENT NOW
Comments
Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.
We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of TheHindu Businessline and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.