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Until Monday night, the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD MPs — currently in Delhi for Parliament's Monsoon Session — had 'no communication from Bhubaneswar' on their party's stand on two crucial issues raised by the Opposition — the no-confidence motion against the BJP-led NDA government and the contentious Delhi Services Bill.

Late on Tuesday, just hours before the GNCDT Amendment Act, 1991, was to be introduced in the Lok Sabha, party sources said the BJD will vote against the no-confidence motion and for the Delhi Services Bill.

To maintain peace and public order, mobile internet services have been suspended in certain areas of Haryana until August 5. According to a fresh advisory, mobile internet services in the jurisdictions of Nuh, Faridabad, and Palwal districts, as well as in the territorial areas of Sohna, Pataudi, and Manesar sub-divisions of Gurugram district in Haryana, will remain suspended until August 5.

Official sources revealed that the Haryana government has finally sanctioned about 50 acres of land in Indri village of Nuh to the Rapid Action Force (RAF). This move comes at a crucial time when the district has experienced communal tensions. The land allocation was previously earmarked, but the final declaration on its use by the force had been pending for over a year. The procedure to hand over the land will happen soon, followed by a foundation stone-laying ceremony conducted by a dignitary.

A total of 1,14,245 posts are lying vacant under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in various organisations including the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Delhi Police, Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra said in Rajya Sabha during the ongoing Monsoon Session of the Parliament on Wednesday.

The union minister said that advertisements for about 31,879 posts were published in 2023, and out of these, 1,126 posts have been filled so far.

Communal clashes that began in Nuh on Monday afternoon with an attack on a religious procession that was headed for a temple took another dark turn at midnight in Gurgaon when an armed mob stormed a mosque, knifed a 23-year-old man sleeping inside it to death and left another with grievous wounds.

The mosque attack happened even as security forces deployed in large numbers in neighbouring Nuh and the Gurgaon police and administration brass focused on Sohna, where mobs had earlier in the day gone on a rampage, attacking shops and houses.

The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday listed six Bills in its legislative business. Two of them will be introduced and four will be moved by ministers for their consideration and passage.

The Bills listed for introduction are the Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2023; and the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023. The Bills listed for their consideration and passage are the Mediation Bill, 2021; the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill, 2023; the Biological Divers

A few of these six Bills are repeated in the revised list of Legislative Business on Tuesday as they could not be moved to the Upper House due to a ruckus created by the Opposition MPs seeking detailed discussion under Rule 267 over ethnic violence in Manipur as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement over the matter.