Party’s prerogative to alter role: Shashi Tharoor
Though the AICC maintained that the decision to remove Congress MP from Kerala Shashi Tharoor as party spokesperson was taken as the state unit was “incensed” with his remarks, including on social...
View ArticleGovernment planning to relocate villages near border, LoC
In the wake of the unprecedented ceasefire violations by Pakistan, the Centre is planning a comprehensive policy to relocate villages close to the Line of Control and the international border in Jammu...
View ArticleEx-coal secretary, 5 others get scam case summons
A special CBI court on Monday said the entire process of coal block allocations was done in brazen fashion and that coal ministry officials had abused their positions and acted in an arbitary and...
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Shashi Tharoor loses post, pays price for praising PM Modi
Shashi Tharoor loses post, pays price for praising PM ModiPraising Prime Minister Narendra Modi has cost Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP from Kerala, a party spokesman’s post. Mr Tharoor’s controversial...
View ArticleSEBI bars DLF, 6 top executives for 3 years
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has barred realty major DLF and six key executives, including chairman K.P. Singh, from accessing the capital markets for three years for alleged...
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Hudhud toll goes up to 21
A view of the damaged airport on Monday after Cyclone Hudhud hit Visakhapatnam. — PTI 48,000 Orissa houses damaged; PM Modi Visakhapatnam visit on Tuesday The damage wreaked by Cyclone Hudhud became...
View ArticleTwo states vote tomorrow, big test for Amit Shah
The high-voltage campaign for the October 15 Assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra came to an end on Monday evening as Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his offensive against the Congress...
View ArticleAnother madrasa under NIA scanner
Another madrasa, suspected to be a terror hideout, has come under the scanner of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) — this time at Lalgola in Murshidabad. Spread over a bigha-and-a-half in...
View ArticleFormer Navy chief slams UPA model
Former Navy Chief Admiral D.K. Joshi (retd) who resigned as the Navy Chief in February this year following an accident in the INS Sindhuratna submarine that left two officers dead has, in an interview...
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CBI grills painter in Saradha probe
Artist Shuvaprasanna appears before the CBI for questioning in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam . PTIPainter Shuvaprasanna faced grilling by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on...
View ArticleScamster’s fairy tale comes to end
Thirty five-year-old Ayub Shah’s transition from a poor street vendor to promoter of half-a-dozen companies with accumulated assets worth over `500 crore in a span of barely one-and-half-decade would...
View ArticlePilots eject as Sukhoi crashes
Both the pilots ejected and were safe, the IAF said Just days after IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said the IAF was facing certain problems with its frontline fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30 MKI...
View ArticleCorporate help to build school loos
Union HRD minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday reiterated the government’s resolve to provide toilets in every school with a separate toilet for girls within one year and invited the corporate sector to...
View ArticleLancet endorses human stem cell therapy
According to the study, different forms of macular degeneration appeared safe up to 3 years post-transplant In cases where no effective treatment exists, the stem cell therapy is seen to have worked....
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Smriti Irani invites corporates to build girls’ toilets
Union HRD minister Smriti Irani Union HRD minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday reiterated the government’s resolve to provide toilets in every school with a separate toilet for girls within one year and...
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Assembly polls: Voting begins in Maharashtra and Haryana, biggest test of...
Voters stand in queue in Maharashtra to cast their vote (Photo: ANI Twitter)Voting began for the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana on Wednesday. These elections are crucial for both...
View ArticleAssembly elections: Moderate to brisk in Maharashtra and Haryana
Elections were being held on Wednesday in Maharashtra and Haryana assemblies with moderate to brisk polling recorded in the first couple of hours.People were queuing at polling stations before the...
View Article‘CBI blindly accepted accused view’
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Wednesday agreed with the contentions of the Supreme Court-appointed prosecutor that the agency had blindly accepted the versions of the accused in a...
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More graphic ciggie warnings
Tobacco causes mouth cancerCome April, 85 per cent of space on cigarette packs and other tobacco products in India will have to be mandatorily covered with graphic and text warnings about adverse...
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BJP sidelines Ram Mandir movement leaders in UP
Yogi AdityanathBJP leaders associated with the Ram Mandir movement are endlessly waiting for “achchhe din” that may never arrive. The BJP, according to sources, has decided to sideline its firebrand...
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