Shots were fired at two Jewish schools overnight in Montreal, Canada but no one was injured, police said Thursday as tension over the Israel-Hamas war rose.
Earlier this week in Montreal a synagogue was firebombed and clashes erupted between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel student groups at Concordia university, officials said.
The Nagaland Assembly on Thursday passed the Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023 and retained 33 per cent reservation for women. It was passed after the select committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister TR Zeliang presented the report on the Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023 in the house.
The development came as several Naga organisations claimed that the reservations for women in the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) would go against their community’s customary laws.
In Nagaland, over 95 per cent of the land and its resources belong to the people and the community while the government owns only about 5 per cent of the total area, including reserve forests and roads.
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, while participating in the discussion on the Bill, said that it was passed after threadbare consultation with civil society organisations and Naga tribal hohos.
He said that provisions related to taxes, land, and buildings have been excluded in the Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023.
Mr Rio also said that the elected body of a particular Municipal or Town Council would decide on taxes or fees in their own jurisdiction.
The provision for one-third reservation of the offices of the Chairperson in the ULB for women, which was there in the earlier Municipal Act, was also not included in the Nagaland Municipal Bill, 2023.
Earlier, the House had withdrawn the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001 by voice vote.
Certain provisions of the Nagaland Municipal Act, 2001 had led to severe objections by the influential Naga tribal hohos claiming that the provisions infringed on Article 371(A).
It also led to violence causing the death of two youths a few years back when the state government attempted to implement the provisions of the Municipal Act.
Municipal elections in Nagaland were first held in 2004, and the terms of the civic bodies ended in 2009-10.
The state government had tried to hold municipal polls with 33 per cent reservation for the women but the move was objected to by the influential civil society bodies. Since then, no civic body election has been conducted in the northeastern state.
Banker and billionaire Uday Kotak’s son Jay got married to his fiancee Aditi Arya, the winner of 2015 Miss India. The wedding took place at Jio Convention Centre in Mumbai on Tuesday. Earlier this year, Jay Kotak confirmed that he is engaged to Ms Arya when he congratulated Ms Arya on X (formerly Twitter) on completing her MBA from Yale University. “Aditi, my fiancee, completed her MBA from Yale University today. Immensely proud of you,” he had written along with two pictures of Ms Arya in her graduation robe and hat.
Jay Kotak shared a photo from the ceremony on X (formerly Twitter). Pics are also going viral on social media platforms like Reddit and Instagram showing them standing at a platform surrounded by guests. While Mr Kotak is wearing sherwani, a traditional wedding ethnic wear, Ms Arya is dressed in a red-coloured lehenga.
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Aditi & Jay pic.twitter.com/S6hCkb0fqS
— Jay Kotak (@jay_kotakone) November 9, 2023
Clips on Instagram show industrialist Mukesh Ambani and his wife Nita were among the guests who attended the wedding functions.
Jay Kotak is a graduate of Columbia University. He did his bachelors in history and economics. Later, he completed his MBA from the Harvard Business School. Currently, he is the Vice President of Kotak811, a digital-first mobile bank incubated by Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Aditi Arya graduated from Delhi University’s Shaheed Sukhdev College and worked briefly as a research analyst at Ernst & Young. She was crowned Miss India in 2015 and went on to represent the country at the Miss World pageant.
Ms Arya has appeared in a few Hindi and Telugu films, including Ranveer Singh starrer ’83’. She then moved to the US to pursue MBA. Ms Arya got her MBA degree in May this year.