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"They told me due respect would be given to me and promises would be kept," Narayan Rane told reporters.

Opposition parties had demanded a consultation with a select committee after the government made 11 new amendments to the Bill.

Kerry who is on a three-day India visit had met External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and co-chaired the Indo-US strategic dialogue on Thursday.

The demand came just days after the regulatory body, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, gave a go-ahead for the trial of 15 crops.

The government would abide by whatever decision is made by the Lok Sabha Speaker on LoP issue, Venkaiah Naidu said.

Eviction notices are being served on about 20 former ministers and 120 ex-MPs.

A Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said the President has appointed Solanki as Governor of Haryana with immediate effect.

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Congress leader Shobhna Oza said that the record of calls of Vaidik needed to be thoroughly probed.

Irani told Lok Sabha that she has written to all MPs requesting them to be part of their respective district- level committees set up to monitor the mid-day meal scheme.

"Crores of people in this country might have crores of self-opinion. PoK area is part of India," Ram Madhav said.

Congress member and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh said the project is not an easy one to implement and would require a "democratic, sensitive and humanistic" approach.

"My personal opinion about it that we should not be petty about it. It was in fact cooling off period," the BJD MP said.

"It looks like by sitting here you wont get any respite by the BJP government", said Arvind Kejriwal.

Social media has played a significant role in recent Lok Sabha elections and it will continue to do so in future, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday.

Sources close to the PM said that he was looking forward to a result-oriented visit to the USA with concrete outcomes.