After dilly-dallying for several days, the Opposition Congress on Monday extended support to the Bharat Adivasi Party candidate Rajkumar Roat at the tribal-dominated Banswara-Dungarpur Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan, hours before the deadline for withdrawal of nominations for the April 26 polls ended. All India Congress Committee Rajasthan in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said the party had decided to support the …
The Punjab government on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Centre to implement the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana in the state, extending the central government scheme to cover over 43 lakh families, instead of the proposed 14.96 lakh. It may be recalled that the Punjab Cabinet had on October 3 gave in-principle approval to merge the state-run …