169 dead in flood, rain-related incidents in south and west India

Union Home Minister Amit Shah undertook an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas of Karnataka and Maharashtra

Current Affairs:-The loss of life in Kerala floods mounted to 72 even as downpours decreased on Sunday in the wake of beating the state for a considerable length of time, while the circumstance stayed horrid in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat where 97 individuals have lost their lives so far because of the rainstorm fierceness.

All waterways are in spate in Karnataka where the UNESCO world legacy site in Hampi, on the banks of the Tungabhadra River in Ballari area, has been immersed after over 1.70 lakh cusec water was discharged from a store on Sunday morning. Voyagers in Hampi have been moved to more secure spots, authorities said.

The uncommon downpour since a week ago has left 31 individuals dead and dislodged four lakh individuals in 80 taluks of 17 locale in Karnataka.

Association Home Minister Amit Shah attempted an ethereal overview of the flood-influenced territories of Karnataka and Maharashtra.

In Kerala, over 2.51 lakh individuals have taken sanctuary in 1,639 alleviation camps. The toll in the flood rage has gone up 72 while 58 individuals as yet absent, as indicated by the report issued by the state government at 7 pm Sunday.

Flight tasks at the Kochi worldwide air terminal continued on Sunday evening, two days after it was closed because of immersion of the runway region.

The IMD has issued a red caution for Kannur, Kasaragod and Wayanad in perspective on substantial downpour conjecture.

Vadakara in Kozhikode locale recorded 21 cm of precipitation, the most noteworthy in the state as of 8.30 am Sunday, trailed by Kodungallur in Thrissur (19.9 cm) and Perinthalmanna in Malappuram (13.8 cm).

Boss Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said water levels in real dams are not a reason for stress starting at now.

In the most exceedingly awful hit Puthumala in Wayanad, which was struck by a gigantic avalanche on Thursday, eight individuals were all the while missing and search tasks are on, he said.

The Army, Navy, Coast Guard, NDRF, police power, volunteers and anglers are engaged with the salvage activity in different spots.

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China and Muslim countries silent, Pakistan alone protests Kashmir move

Pakistani analysts demandg to know whether Imran Khan and Donald Trump discussed New Delhi’s plans for J&K during their meeting in Washington on July 22.

International:-The administration’s revocation of the arrangements of Article 370 and the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into two association regions – Ladakh and J&K – has evoked little reaction from governments over the world.

Pakistan has been the main nation to denounce New Delhi’s turn. Proclaiming that “Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir is a globally perceived a contested area”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Islamabad expressed: “As the gathering to this worldwide question, Pakistan will practice every single imaginable choice to counter the illicit advances.”

While Pakistan has long tried to internationalize the Kashmir debate, Islamabad will introspect about whether its clearly effective ploy – in which Prime Minister Imran Khan got President Donald Trump to offer his administrations in intervening the Kashmir question – really made New Delhi move faster in annulling Kashmir’s unique status.

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Pakistani investigators are requesting to know whether Khan and Trump examined New Delhi’s arrangements for J&K during their gathering in Washington on July 22, and whether the Pakistan Army knew about the approaching declaration.

“Question is what was DGISI (executive general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence) doing that he couldn’t assemble the intel[ligence] with respect to what India had arranged in Kashmir? For what reason did it come as an astonishment?” asked Ayesha Siddiqa, the acclaimed writer of Pakistan Inc., a book on the Pakistan Army’s business dealings.

Islamabad’s analysis of New Delhi’s bifurcation of J&K is debilitated by its very own rebuilding in 1970 of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), from which it cut out a governmentally controlled piece of an area that it assigned the “Northern Areas”. New Delhi is currently reflecting that Pakistani move, via cutting out Ladakh from J&K and assigning it an association region that will be straightforwardly directed from New Delhi.

In 2009, President Asif Zardari renamed the Northern Areas as Gilgit-Baltistan and allowed the region a level of self-sufficiency. Be that as it may, nearby activists challenge vocally that power keeps on resting with the midway selected representative, not the chosen get together.

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Karnataka BJP leaders meet Amit Shah to discuss new govt formation

The H D Kumaraswamy government in the state fell on Tuesday after it lost the confidence vote

Current Affairs:-A gathering of Karnataka BJP pioneers met party president Amit Shah on Thursday as the gathering gauged its choices following the fall of the Congress-JD(S) government in the state.

The state BJP driven by previous boss priest B S Yeddyurappa is quick to stake guarantee to frame the following government however is sitting tight for the focal administration’s gesture for its best course of action.

Karnataka BJP pioneers, including Jagdish Shettar, Arvind Limbavali, Madhuswamy, Basavaraj Bommai and Yeddyurappa’s child Vijayendra, met Shah as they talked about the advancement in the state and investigated the choices ahead for the gathering.

With Speaker Ramesh Kumar yet to accept an approach renunciations of 15 rebel alliance MLAs and supplications by their gatherings to exclude them, the BJP is stepping mindfully as Kumar’s choice may have a genuine bearing on the destiny of the following government.

The state additionally needs to pass the account bill before July 31. Sources said in the event that an administration isn’t set up before the month end, at that point inconvenience of the President’s standard might be a protected need for the entry of the bill, which is the reason the BJP is likewise counseling legitimate specialists.

The H D Kumaraswamy government in the state fell on Tuesday after it lost the certainty vote, accumulating 99 cast a ballot against the 105 by the BJP in the get together, finishing the almost three-week-long high political show.

The alliance had required 103 votes to support its to win the movement as 20 MLAs Congress-JDS (17), BSP (1), Independents (2) skipped procedures, decreasing the powerful quality of the House to 205.

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Govt planning new labour legislation by merging 44 laws under 4 categories

The proposed new labour law will help investors and is expected to accelerate growth, said an official

Current Affairs:-Giving the business a breathing time, the administration has conceded usage of the improved comes back to October from prior due date of July and turned out with obvious stage astute courses of events for a change.

Preliminary of parts of new returns will begin from one month from now and the entire procedure would supplant the current returns by January 2020.

Right now, there are two structures that each enlisted unit needs to document either month to month contingent upon their deals – GSTR 1 available to be purchased solicitations and GSTR 3B which is synopsis of buys and deals.

GSTR 1 and GSTR 3B would be supplanted by GST ANX-1 and GST RET-01 individually. There would be another structure GSTR ANX-2 which would be for buys.

GSTR 1 would be supplanted by GST ANX-1 from October for huge organizations (having turnover of more than Rs 5 turnover) and from January for other people.

Be that as it may, specialists have advised about the limit of GSTN entryway to deal with returns. “What might likewise be intriguing to see is the means by which the GSTN entry carries on with the new return organization and its annexures,” said Harpreet Singh, accomplice at KPMG.

In the mean time, the GST Council is likewise intending to actualize e-invoicing framework. “It stays to be viewed about whether the legislature would need the e-invoicing framework to be actualized at the same time in a staged way and how the equivalent would be coordinated with the GST returns,” Pratik Jain, accomplice at PwC India, said.

Abhishek Jain, accomplice at EY, said with a solid progress plan, organizations would now need to initiate take a shot at ERP framework changes, business procedure changes for adjusting divulgences to the new return.

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Who can replace Amit Shah as BJP president if he gets a Cabinet berth?

BJP circles feel Shah will be asked to move to the government as part of the plan to push for speedy implementation of Modi’s ambitious agenda for his second term

Current Affair:-With Narendra Modi-drove Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) coming back to control by winning 303 seats in Lok Sabha races 2019, hypothesis is overflowing that Amit Shah will join the following Modi bureau. The gathering’s main strategist was handled from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat and won by an edge of more than 300,000 votes.

Gathering circles feel Shah will be approached to move to the administration as a component of the arrangement to push for quick execution of Modi’s eager motivation for his second term, and is certain to get a significant portfolio. Sources said he may get the fund service in the event that Arun Jaitley chooses to enjoy a reprieve for wellbeing reasons. In the event that bits of gossip are to be depended upon and Shah stops his post as BJP president, who might be next in line to fill in his shoes?

As per a report distributed in Times of India, names of association clergymen for wellbeing and oil, Jagat P Nadda and Dharmendra Pradhan are doing rounds.

BJP National General Secretary and a Rajya Sabha MP from Himachal Pradesh, JP Nadda is known as an ace strategist in his gathering. The gathering had given charge of Uttar Pradesh to Union Health Minister JP Nadda in the critical General decisions. The gathering sacked 62 out 80 Lok Sabha seats.

In the interim, Dharmendra Pradhan has demonstrated his hierarchical aptitudes in Bihar Lok Sabha decisions 2014 and this time in Odisha. BJP’s vote share in the Lok Sabha surveys in Odisha ascended from about 21.9 percent in 2014 to 38.37 percent while the decision BJD’s tumbled from 44.1 percent in 2014 to 42.76 percent. BJP’s vote share in Odisha’s Assembly surveys likewise climbed altogether from 18.2 percent in 2014 to 32.5% in 2019.

A RSS part since his understudy days and a nearby friend of both Modi and Shah, Pradhan is relied upon to assume a greater job in BJP.

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Amit Shah may debut, Jaitley’s role uncertain in Modi’s new cabinet

Shah, who has debuted in the Lok Sabha, could join the Cabinet Committee on Security of the second Modi government

Elections:-The most foreseen acceptance into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s committee of priests is probably going to be that of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah when the new government makes vow one week from now.

Shah, who has appeared in the Lok Sabha, could join the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) of the second Modi government, sources said. Aside from the head administrator, the CCS involves the best four of the legislature – barrier, home, outside issues and money clergymen.

In Gujarat, Shah had filled in as home priest in the administrations driven by Modi. In any case, Rajnath Singh, who has held his Lucknow situate, is one of the senior-most gathering pioneers and filled in as home priest in the first Modi government.

It stays to be checked whether Nirmala Sitharaman, who capably safeguarded the administration on the supposed anomalies in the Rafale warrior stream bargain, would keep on outstanding guard clergyman, and whether Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, who has developed the administration’s emergency supervisor, gets an all the more prominent portfolio.

Be that as it may, there are worries over Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s wellbeing. He was released from New Delhi’s AllMS on Thursday and didn’t go to the gathering’s triumph festivities at the BJP base camp at night. Given the difficulties on the monetary front in the months to come, the worry in the gathering is if Jaitley’s wellbeing will allow him to join the service at the present crossroads.

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EC rejects commissioner Lavasa’s demand to record dissent note by 2-1 vote

A Commission official said the dissent notes and minority views would remain part of records of the poll panel

LokSabha Elections 2019:The Election Commission Tuesday rejected with a greater part vote decision magistrate Ashok Lavasa’s interest that contradict notes ought to be recorded in its requests on model code infringement, days after the stewing strain inside the survey body over the issue moved into the open.

The ‘full commission’ of the board, including Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and two different individuals – Lavasa and Sushil Chandra-pondered on the antagonistic issue, after which the Commission said that contradict notes and minority perspectives would remain some portion of records yet would not be a piece of its request.

“In the gathering of the Election Commission held today with respect to the issue of MCC (Model Code of Conduct), it was, entomb alia, chose that procedures of the commission’s gatherings would be drawn, including the perspectives on all the commission individuals,” the Commission said in an announcement after the gathering, which went on for more that two hours.

“From that point, formal directions with this impact would be issued in consonance with surviving laws/rules, and so on,” it further said.

Clarifying the request, a Commission official said the contradiction notes and minority perspectives would remain some portion of records of the survey board.

Lavasa had disagreed on a progression of clean chits given by the Commission to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah on their addresses amid the race crusade.

As his interest to record his difference notes in EC’s requests was not met, Lavasa recused himself from cases identifying with identifying with infringement of model implicit rules.

In an emphatic letter to Arora on May 4, Lavasa is figured out how to have said that he is being compelled to avoid the gatherings of the full commission since minority choices are not being recorded.

In Tuesday’s gathering, Lavasa is figured out how to have adhered to his ground, squeezing for his interest to incorporate contradicting sees in the requests.

Since duplicates of the requests are sent to the complainant and respondents, they become open regardless of whether EC does not impart it to media.

The EC had kept up that the contradiction notes can’t be made piece of the request as the survey code infringement cases are not semi legal in nature and that they are not marked by the central decision magistrate (CEC) and individual chiefs.

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An election like never before: When EC’s neutrality came into question

Congress President Rahul Gandhi took potshots at the Election Commission on May 19 for alledgedly going soft on ‘Narendra Modi and his gang’

LokSabha Elections 2019:Previous President Pranab Mukherjee said on Monday that the decision commmission ought not be reprimanded for its work and that it has worked superbly in the as of late finished up Lok Sabha races. The comments came two days after Congress President Rahul Gandhi attacked the Election Commission for alledgedly going delicate on “Narendra Modi and his posse”.

Business Standard investigates ten examples when the EC wound up in the midst of a debate amid the Lok Sabha decisions 2019.

1) Black box at Narendra Modi rally

The Election Commission wound up in the midst of a contention when a 1996 group IAS officer was exchanged for testing an alledged ‘black box’ emptied from PM Narendra Modi’s helicopter just before a race rally in Karnataka’s Chitradurga.

2) Modi biopic

The Election Commission had on April 10 remained the arrival of a biopic on Narendra Modi, multi day in front of its unique booked discharge date on April 11, which concurred with the beginning first period of the Lok Sabha races in the nation. The survey commission said the film irritates the dimension playing field.

Afterward, the creators of the movie moved toward the Supreme Court, the zenith court guided the EC to watch the film and reevaluate its choice.

A sum of seven authorities viewed an uncommon screening and presented its report to the top court, which at that point dismissed a request testing the EC’s choice and said it won’t meddle in the issue.

3) Clean chits to Modi on survey code ‘infringement’

The Election Commission arranged off a few protests against Narendra Modi for supposed infringement of the Model Code of Conduct amid the Lok Sabha races. He was blamed for utilizing the Balakot air strikes and utilizing the endeavors of Wing Commander Abhinandan to assist his appointive intrigue.

4) Pragya Thakur’s comments

The EC had banished Pragya Thakur, BJP’s Lok Sabha contender for the Bhopal voting public, from battling for three days for disregarding the Model Code of Conduct for working up shared sentiments. The survey guard dog had said in its request that the choice came in light of her remarks against killed IPS officer Hemant Karkare and on the pulverization of the Babri Masjid.

A week ago, Thakur said Mahatma Gandhi’s executioner Nathuram Godse was a loyalist, following which Narendra Modi held his first question and answer session in five years. The survey board had taken cognisance of Pragya’s comments after a large group of ideological groups denounced her comment.

5) Clean chit to Amit Shah:

The survey board did not discover BJP President Amit Shah infringing upon the Model Code of Conduct when he stated, “Rahul Gandhi is challenging in such a spot where it is difficult to state when a parade is taken out, regardless of whether it is a parade in India or Pakistan,” amid a discourse in Nagpur.

6) Lavasa’s recusal

One of the race magistrates, Ashok Lavasa, recused himself from a gathering on survey code infringement after he ended up in a minority multiple times when he contradicted against clean chits to Modi and Shah’s alledged infringement of the Model Code of Conduct.

7) NaMo TV

NaMo TV, a channel drifted by the BJP to communicate race related things, worked up debate when resistance groups whined to the survey board that it damaged the MCC. The Election Commission decided that NaMo TV can’t show ‘decision matter’ amid the quiet time frame before a period of surveying started.

8) Modi’s Kedarnath visit

The Election Commission allowed Modi authorization to visit Kedarnath, thought about a blessed spot by Hindus, in front of the last period of Lok Sabha decisions. The choice was condemned no matter how you look at it by ideological groups as they trusted Modi’s visit to the holy site could influence voters.

9) Modi’s military remark by Adityanath

The Election Commission let Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath free with a notice after the saffron head alluded to the Indian Army as ‘Modiji ki sena’ (Modi’s military). This was a second alledged instance of survey code infringement by the UP CM after he was banned from crusading for several days following a previous comment.

10) SC addressed postponements

As per an Indian Express report on Monday, race chief Ashok Lavasa looked for brief activity from his companions after the Supreme Court pulled up the survey board for postponements in managing instances of detest discourse amid decision crusading.

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Mahagathbandan will checkmate NDA in Bihar, no Modi wave, says Shatrughan

He is pitted against Union minister Ravishankar Prasad in Patna Sahib seat that will see voting on May 19

LokSabha Elections 2019: The Modi ‘lahar’ (wave) of 2014 has deteriorated into ‘kahar’ (catastrophe) over the most recent five years and the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar is good to go to overwhelm the BJP-drove NDA, entertainer turned-government official Shatrughan Sinha guaranteed here Friday.

He said in the neighboring Uttar Pradesh as well, where his significant other has been handled by the SP-BSP consolidate, however the Congress is challenging independently, the BJP will be likewise cleared away.

“Mahagathbandhan un logon ke parkhachche udaa dega” (amazing coalition will overwhelm them), Sinha, who tries to hold his Patna Sahib situate on a Congress ticket, said at a question and answer session here on the last day of crusade.

He is hollowed against Union pastor Ravishankar Prasad in Patna Sahib situate that will see casting a ballot on May 19.

Attacking the BJP, for asserting that Sinha had been despondent over not getting a clerical billet in the Narendra Modi government, the on-screen character, jested this is equivalent to “chori oopar se seenazori” (submit a bad behavior and afterward shameless it out).

“Let us, for a minute, expect that I had issues over not getting a clerical compartment, Now could the small time show and two man armed force (a term Sinha has been utilizing to portray the BJP under Modi and Amit Shah) clarify why it treated gravely stalwarts like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi,” he inquired.

“The BJP ought to likewise clarify why a scholarly mammoth like Arun Shourie, who was with the gathering, is presently so sharply restricted to it and what drove Yashwant Sinha, who was once such a ground-breaking pioneer, to stop the gathering in sicken,” Sinha, who was joined by gathering partner and previous Union priest Subodh Kant Sahay, said.

“Their concern was, I was talking reality, I was talking about the gigantic bother caused to the general population and mischief done to the economy through demonetization, I was denouncing the trashy usage of the GST, which has caused our brokers to endure and I was requesting that the administration confessed all on the Rafale bargain,” the second-term MP from Patna Sahib said.

“At Yesterday’s roadshow held by Rahul Gandhi, where the turnout was memorable and the energy skirted on insane, someone prodded me with the inquiry ‘Chhenu aaya tha’ (did Chhenu come), I said I didn’t know but rather Chowkidaar chor hai absolutely resonated through the air,” he included

“Chhenu aaya tha” is a prevalent discourse from the old film Mere Apne wherein Sinha had assumed the job of the opponent named Chhenu a road hoodlum attached to conveying impactful jokes.

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BJP promises Vidyasagar statue at ‘same spot’ in befitting reply to TMC

‘Those involved in this act should be given strong punishment’, said PM Modi

LokSabha Elections 2019:Head administrator Narendra Modi on Thursday said his legislature was submitted towards Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s vision and guaranteed to introduce his stupendous statue at a similar spot in Kolkata where it was vandalized by “TMC goondas”.

While lashing out at Mamata Banerjee, the executive said he was going for a rally in Dum later in the day however didn’t know whether the West Bengal Chief Minister will enable his helicopter to arrive.

Tending to a decision rally, Modi said,”The statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was broken by TMC goondas amid the street show of BJP President Amit Shah. Those engaged with this demonstration ought to be given solid discipline”.

He said a fabulous “panch dhatu” (made up of five metals) statue of Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar will be introduced at a similar spot to give a befitting answer to TMC specialists.

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Kolkata saw wide-spread brutality amid BJP president Shah’s huge street show Tuesday. A bust of nineteenth century Bengali symbol Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was vandalized amid the savagery.

Hitting back at BSP supremo Mayawati, who had assaulted him over savagery in West Bengal, Modi stated, “The way where the West Bengal government has been focusing on UPiites, Biharis and those from Purvanchal, he thought Behenji will give a befitting answer yet she is increasingly worried about power”.

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