Addressing his first public rally in the valley since the repeal of Article 370 which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today ruled out any dialogue with Pakistan. Shah also announced that the J&K Assembly elections would be held as soon as the Election Commission completes the process of revising the voter rolls in the Union Territory. The Home Secretary used much of his 25-minute speech to attack the “three families who ruled Kashmir for 70 years”, identifying the third family, for the first time, as Gandhis.
Meanwhile, the chairwoman and former chief minister of the Shah, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (JKPDP), Mehbooba Mufti, said that while the Union Home Minister “went through Kashmir beating the drums of normalcy”, she had been placed under house arrest.
Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Wednesday renamed Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), the ruling party in the state, to Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS). On the occasion, over 280 party executives, MPs and MPs passed a resolution to merge the TRS with the BRS. KCR will soon talk about its future plans and the role it intends to play in national politics. TRS sources, however, say the party would field candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in several states.
RSS leader Mohan Bhagwat today addressed the main celebration of the Sangh’s Dussehra Day in Nagpur, a highlight of the Sangh’s calendar. With the RSS founded in Nagpur on Dussehra in 1925, the Sangh sarsanghachalak exhibits the vision of the outfit on various issues of national importance during this annual event. From population control politics to women’s rights, here are five takeaways from the RSS leader’s speech today.
Political pulse
As Himachal Pradesh heads to the Assembly polls next month, Chief Minister Jairam Thakur is expected to lead his BJP party’s ‘Mission Repeat’ campaign in the hill state which has seen no party incumbent return to power since the 1990s. The polls will be a litmus test for Thakur who left the ranks of the saffron camp to assume the post of head of state.
Express explained
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless, the latter winning the second Nobel of his career. The three were awarded for their work on “click chemistry”, in which molecules fit together quickly and tightly, without requiring a long and complicated process and too many unwanted by-products. Their work has applications in the field of medical science, including cancer treatment. An overview of what Sharpless, Meldal and Bertozzi worked on and the importance of their research.
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