Nanded (Maharashtra), Feb 20 (IANS) Kicking off the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign, the UPA allies on Wednesday vowed to “uproot” the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv sent in the Centre and state. Accusing them of “ruining and wrecking” the state and country, speakers from various parties raised the slogan ‘Bahut[Read More…]
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Influencers manipulating social media in India, Indian IT Act silent (IANS Special)
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) If the Cobrapost investigation which revealed that several Bollywood celebrities were willing to pass views of political parties as personal opinion for money shook your conscience, but there is not much that you could do to restrict them from doing so because the relevant Indian[Read More…]
Digvijaya’s statement, Kamalnath’s tweet rock MP Assembly
Bhopal, Feb 20 (IANS) Statements and counter-statements over twin issues of Mandsaur farmer deaths and alleged scam in plantation along Narmada banks rocked the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Wednesday. Former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh’s statement and a tweet from incumbent Chief Minister Kamal Nath over the issues were cited by[Read More…]
Flight cancellations affect Jan air passenger growth (Lead)
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) India’s domestic air passenger traffic growth slowed in January as airlines cancelled flights due to reasons like weather related events. According to industry observers, seasonal factors too contributed to slowing of growth rate in January to 9.10 per cent on the year-on-year basis. In December[Read More…]
Asees Chadha denied bail, admitted to hospital (Lead)
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Asees Singh Chadha, 19-year-old nephew of late Ponty Chadha of the Wave Group, who allegedly killed a 51-year-old woman from Turkmenistan in a traffic accident, here on Monday, failed to get bail on Wednesday from a city court. Shortly after rejection of the bail plea[Read More…]
EX-Visva Bharati VC, registrar declared guilty in forgery case
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) Former Vice-Chancellor Dilip Kumar Sinha, ex-registrar Dilip Kumar Mukherjee and an one-time woman professor of the Visva Bharati University, set up by Rabindranath Tagore, were pronounced guilty in a case of conspiracy and forgery by a lower court in the Birbhum district on Wednesday. The quantum[Read More…]
Congress to contest nine seats in TN, one in Puducherry
Chennai, Feb 20 (IANS) The Congress will contest nine seats in Tamil Nadu and the sole seat in Puducherry in the Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the DMK, DMK President M.K. Stalin announced here on Wednesday. –IANS vj/nir/mr
Avalanche in HP kills one soldier, five missing (Second Lead)
Shimla, Feb 20 (IANS) A snow avalanche killed a soldier while five other soldiers went missing near the Tibet border in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Wednesday, officials said. Five Indo-Tibetan Border Force (ITBP) troopers were also injured in the disaster that occurred at around 11 a.m. The avalanche was[Read More…]
Jio adds 85 lakh subscribers in December; Airtel, Vodafone Idea lose users
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Reliance Jio continued to increase its subscriber base in December as other major telecom operators Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel lost users during the period, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) showed on Wednesday. Reliance Jio added 85.6 lakh subscribers during[Read More…]
Radio City goes live on Aqua Line metro stations
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Waiting for trains won’t be boring at the newly launched Aqua Line in Noida with Radio City beginning to broadcast its content live across stations on the line. Radio City, one of India’s leading radio networks, which has partnered with the Noida Metro Rail Corporation[Read More…]
Earlier, filmmakers had limited vision about me: Arjun Rampal
Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS) National award-winning actor-producer Arjun Rampal, who will soon to be seen in the upcoming web series titled “The Final Call”, says since he was a supermodel before entering Bollywood, initially filmmakers cast him in characters keeping only his “good looks” in mind. Talking about his career[Read More…]
LCA Tejas gets clearance for induction into IAF (Lead)
Bengaluru, Feb 20 (IANS) India’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has received final operational clearance from military aviation regulator Cemilac for induction into the Indian Air Force (IAF) as a weaponised fighter jet, said an official here on Wednesday. The Centre for Military Airworthiness and Certification (Cemilac) Chief Executive P.[Read More…]
India, Saudi Arabia condemn Pulwama attack, call for sanctioning of terrorists, organisations by UN
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) India and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday strongly condemned the terror attack on Indian forces in Pulwama, called upon countries to renounce use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy and underlined the importance of comprehensive sanctioning of terrorists and their organisations by the United[Read More…]
Modi may inaugurate PM Kisan scheme on Sunday
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the direct income support scheme – PM KISAN – on Sunday by releasing the first instalment to the beneficiary farmers, an official said. Modi will address the two-day national conclave of the BJP Kisan Morcha on Sunday[Read More…]
Modi popular but will be tough for BJP to replicate 2014 in UP: Survey
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi still remains popular with the masses but it would be difficult for the BJP to replicate its 2014 success in Uttar Pradesh, says a survey on the evolving political scenario in the state ahead of the upcoming elections. The survey also[Read More…]
Governor lauds Haryana’s “transparent, graft-free governance”
Chandigarh, Feb 20 (IANS) Haryana Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya on Wednesday lavished fulsome praise on the Manohar Lal Khattar government in his budget address to the state Assembly, and said it had ushered in bold reforms and provided transparent governance during its four-and-a-half year tenure. Addressing the Assembly on the[Read More…]
BJP will regret fooling people of Delhi: AAP
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) here on Wednesday questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) stand on full statehood for Delhi and said the BJP will regret fooling the people of Delhi and will not find any escape for its deception. “Why is the BJP running[Read More…]
NRAI open to host Pak shooters, NRAP gets cagey
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Hours after the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) put the ball in Pakistan’s court, saying there is no hindrance from the Indian side on their participation, the National Rifle Association of Pakistan (NRAP) on Wednesday wrote to the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) to[Read More…]
Najib’s British aide charged with money laundering
Kuala Lumpur, Feb 20 (IANS) A British national who served as a public relations aide to former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was charged with money laundering in absentia here on Wednesday. According to state news agency Bernama, public relations consultant Paul Stadlen was charged with money laundering, involving 15[Read More…]
Gujarat Assembly Speaker suspends Leader of Opposition over Sardar statue comment
Gandhinagar, Feb 20 (IANS) Amidst acrimonious scenes in the Gujarat Assembly, the Speaker on Wednesday suspended Leader of Opposition Paresh Dhanani for a day for not apologising for his mention of scrap iron being used for the construction of the Statue of Unity (SoU). Earlier, Speaker Rajendra Trivedi had to[Read More…]
Women, children used to ferry Pulwama explosive: Intelligence sources
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Women and children helped terrorists to ferry the deadly explosive RDX grade 5 (for military use) and ammonium nitrate from transit point Tral in Pulwama district in south Kashmir in carrying out a suicide attack on a CRPF convoy on February 14, intelligence sources told[Read More…]
Congress to approach Lok Sabha polls as polls in 29 states
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) The Congress will be approaching the coming Lok Sabha elections not as one election but as polls in 29 different states while also attacking the BJP-led government at the Centre on its promises, performance and failures. There will be a three-phased multi-media campaign unleashed against[Read More…]
BJP agreed to share CM’s post for alliance: Shiv Sena minister
Mumbai, Feb 20 (IANS) In a major revelation that virtually spills the beans on the highly-publicised electoral alliance between the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party, top Sena leader and Maharashtra minister Ramdas Kadam said on Wednesday that the pact was finalised “only after the BJP agreed to share[Read More…]
Hasty GST Council aimed to facilitate real estate: Sisodia
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Delhi Finance Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday opposed what he called “rushing through” of important decisions in the GST Council meeting via video-conferencing, alleging the hasty meeting was aimed to facilitate the real estate and lottery lobbies. The meeting, held earlier in the day, however,[Read More…]
What Modi said in the aftermath of Pulwama terror attack
New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) After the February 14 terror attack in Pulwama that left 40 CRPF troopers dead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been repeatedly attacking Pakistan and giving signals that the neighbour may have to pay a heavy price for it. After his hard-hitting statements, the security forces[Read More…]