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BJP leaders, including Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, have said they will go back to the drawing board after the BSP-SP combine defeated the ruling party in their bastion. A consolidation of opposition votes leading to its defeat in three Lok Sabha bypolls, including Gorakhpur, has shaken up the party as both Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are central to its strategy for winning the crucial 2019 General Elections.
The Congress termed the passage of the Finance Bill without discussion in the Lok Sabha as a "black day", an attempt at "throttling" democracy and a "blot" on it. The Finance Bill, as well as the Appropriation Bill, were passed in a matter of 25 minutes during which Opposition parties and ruling NDA ally TDP shouted slogans and created a din. The Lower House was adjourned for the day immediately thereafter.
Some expensive private hospitals in India are cutting corners in the most critical area, the Intensive Care Units. This was revealed an investigation by CNN-News18 which visited several premier private hospitals in Indore and Bengaluru. Charak Hospital, in the heart of Indore, has a permanent doctor on duty in ICU who graduated with a degree in homeopathy with no formal training to practice critical care. Dr Dipender Soni told CNN-News18 about his eight years of experience as an ‘ICU Specialist’. The homeopathy doctor said, “I take all the calls during an emergency, the senior doctors are consulted only on the phone afterwards." Pakistan has summoned India's Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh over the alleged harassment of officials and families of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and said such "despicable incidents" indicate "complicit unwillingness" of the Indian Government to protect foreign diplomats.
Despite a fiercely-contested battle, the Bihar by-elections results failed to indicate any decisive swing as both the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan and BJP-led NDA retained their respective seats. All winning candidates were relatives of the sitting representatives whose sudden demise necessitated the by-polls. However, the Mahagathbandan can still claim a moral victory as Nitish Kumar’s return to the NDA fold seems to have failed to get winning votes.
Members of Shri Ayutchandi Mahayagna Samiti in Meerut have now found an indigenous way to curb pollution. To bring their noble thought to reality, they have decided to burn 500 quintals of mango wood in a nine-day-long "mahayagna." Really. Here are 11 times Indians proved that they can do without science (Or common sense). Agree or disagree? There is a huge irony for the Congress in Phulpur by-election results. The party even polled lesser votes than Independent candidate and mafia don Ateeq Ahmed in the seat which was once represented in the Lok Sabha by Jawaharlal Nehru. But in the Phulpur loss as well in Gorakhpur there is an important lesson for the anti-BJP alliance in Uttar Pradesh - a Bihar-like mahagathbandhan may not be as effective in UP. Perhaps a triangular fight, as was seen in these elections suits the SP-BSP combine and perhaps the Congress as well. The Congress ‘staying' out of alliance may have aided SP-BSP in Uttar Pradesh bypolls. On reel
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