Women most vulnerable in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
Following the recent rape incidents, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is besieged by political parties and civil society for failure to protect women and increasing lawlessness in the state....
View ArticleBadaun Superintendent of Police suspended
Under attack over the rape and murder of two dalit cousin sisters, the Akhilesh Yadav government on Saturday suspended Badaun SP, decided to take action against then district magistrate and undertook a...
View ArticleAcid attack: Man may lose vision
Bihar’s continuing social scourge of forced marriages after abduction, locally called “pakrau shaadi,” has reared its ugly head in a ghastly manner in a fresh incident in which villagers poured acid...
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Ghulam Nabi Azad is Leader of oppostion in Rajya Sabha
Ghulam Nabi AzadSenior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday was appointed the leader of Congress party in the Rajya Sabha. He will also be the Leader of Oppostion as the Congress is the largest...
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More fishermen arrests, Jayalalithaa writes to PM Narendra Modi
J. JayalalithaaIndia has raised with Sri Lanka the arrest of 82 fishermen from Tamil Nadu by the Lankan Navy for allegedly poaching in Lanka waters. The fishermen along with their 18 boats, belonging...
View ArticleGovernment to sell ads on .nic websites?
With the new government using “new media” in a big way and Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself taking the lead himself, an idea is being floated to turn “popular official websites into revenue-earning...
View ArticleMantris get sharp deadlines on key issues
It is not weeks but days that the new Narendra Modi government has set as deadlines for all the issues being referred to it. For the first time, the PMO has started giving sharp and precise deadlines...
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Local Pawar: Won’t stand for CM
Sharad PawarThe Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday ruled out becoming the chief ministerial candidate of the party for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections. He said...
View ArticleHigh command to blame: A.R. Antulay
Senior leader and former Union minister A.R. Antulay has squarely blamed the Congress high command for the situation the party finds itself at present. “We have been forced to see this day because of...
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President will address both the Houses of Parliament
President Pranab mukherjee with Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra MahajanPresident Pranab Mukherjee will address the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on Monday, which will be the first since the new...
View Article‘Nervous’ Trinamul Congress rigged polls, claims BJP
Claming that Trinamul Congress’s 39 per cent vote share in Lok Sabha election was 10 per cent more due to the rigging and violence, BJP’s central observer for West Bengal Siddharth Nath Singh on Sunday...
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To take on China, focus on skill, scale and speed: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reads a book “Getting India Back on Track” -PTIPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed the need to focus on “3S” “skill, scale and speed” to compete with China in...
View ArticleCBI has high hopes from new government
Hamstrung by a resource crunch, inadequate personnel and lack of equipments, the country’s premier investigative agency CBI is all set to take advantage of a new government in office by bringing to its...
View ArticleOpposition says speech ‘word jugglery’
Describing President Pranab Mukherjee’s address to Parliament as a “jugglery of words” and “rehash” of the BJP’s election slogans, the Opposition on Monday slammed the Narendra Modi government for...
View ArticleRivals forget campaign hostilities
It was a rare sight of bonhomie in the central hall of Parliament on Monday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi affably greeted his political adversary and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi by warmly...
View ArticleMoEF to speed up clearances to defence projects
The government on Monday said that environment clearance of national security and defence projects will be taken up on a priority basis and given sanction.While announcing that the Navy’s ambitious...
View Article‘Follow AIADMK, TMC lead in drastic action’
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister M. Veerappa Moily suggested the Congress high command to follow the Trinamul Congress and the AIADMK in taking “drastic action” against the party...
View ArticleCriminals hurl bombs on Patna road, loot Rs 26.5L
Criminals spread terror on a busy Patna road in broad daylight on Monday by throwing a bomb on a passing car and firing gunshots before looting `26.5 lakh from a local businessman’s car, a day after...
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Candidates stumped by Chhattisgarh civil exam
Candidates stumped by Chhattisgarh civil examA set of “silly” questions asking names of “local” goons and small-time corrupt businessmen, found in the general knowledge paper of preliminary test of...
View ArticleEnforcement Directorate to quiz 4 officials of steel ministry
The Enforcement Directorate is preparing to examine four senior officials of the steel ministry and three former members of the 25th and 26th Screening Committee in connection with its investigations...
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