Don’t know whom Oppn wants to protect: Milind Deora after CM Banerjee urges CEC to halt SIR

IANS | November 21, 2025 3:44 PM

Mumbai, Nov 21 (IANS) After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar urging him to halt the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state citing “inhuman” work pressure on Booth Level Officers (BLOs), Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora on Friday questioned why some Opposition leaders were opposing the SIR process and “whom they want to give protection to, and from which country.”

Number of poor families getting cheap LPG under Ujjwala scheme rises to 10.6 crore

IANS | November 21, 2025 3:34 PM

New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri, said on Friday that the number of poor families in India getting an LPG cylinder at a subsidised price under the Prime Minister Modi-led government's Ujjwala Yojana has gone up to 10.6 crore while the number of homes getting piped natural gas in their kitchens has risen to 1.56 crore.