Some unknown persons vandalised the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee office at Azad Maidan here on Friday morning, a party official said. The incident occurred around 8 am, when the cleaning work was underway and around half a dozen people suddenly barged inside. Using sticks and other things they destroyed glass[Read More…]
Her dance performance on “Nagada sang dhol” song during Miss World 2017 pageants made many of her co-contestants think that she is a “Bollywood actress”, but Manushi Chhillar is not eyeing Bollywood as of now. She wants to complete her medical education after her tenure as Miss World gets over.[Read More…]
Automobile major Tata Motors has said it received a loan worth Rs 584.8 crore and not a “grant” from Gujarat government for setting up a factory in the state. “The investor friendly environment created by the Government of Gujarat (GoG) encouraged Tata Motors to set-up its manufacturing plant in Sanand,[Read More…]
The BJP on Thursday called for President’s rule in Tripura, alleging “deterioration of law and order situations”. The northeastern state’s ruling CPI-M and Congress ridiculed the demand. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said it would launch statewide agitations on Friday in support of their demand and would law siege to[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh was the state where the maximum number of crimes took place in 2016, while Delhi reported the highest crime rate, latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report said on Thursday. Uttar Pradesh accounted for 9.5 per cent of total Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes reported in the country[Read More…]
BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday hailed the spike in figures on economic growth for the second quarter of 2017 as a “reflection of solid economic management” and said he anticipated more employment generation in the country. “Today’s GDP numbers reiterate the ‘India Unstoppable’ story under PM (Narendra Modi). The[Read More…]
The Congress said on Thursday that the improvement in GDP numbers to 6.3 per cent was “a temporary pause from the downward trend” and accused the Narendra Modi government of giving a “desperate spin to hide its luminous under-performance”. Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said that growth of agriculture and[Read More…]
Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Thursday questioned how many times Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone to temples, and said Modi has given up Hindu religion for the sake of Hindutva. “How many times does the Prime Minister go to a temple? Does he go to temple every morning?” Sibal[Read More…]
The Congress on Thursday alleged that the BJP government in Gujarat had let four private companies — Adani, ESSAR, Tata and China Light Power — to “squander” Rs 26,000 crore of the public exchequer by purchasing electricity from them at “unimaginably high rates” in a “huge power purchase scam” in[Read More…]
A BJP party member was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Tripura’s Gomati district on Wednesday night, hours after Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti ended his two-day visit to the Left-ruled state to review poll preparedness and directed improvement in the law and order situation in order to hold state[Read More…]
Its value has eroded over its lifetime of a century. Today, a rupee can buy very little, maybe a toffee. Yet, this sturdy currency has survived two world wars, regularly shedding value till it has practically gone out of use. The British government introduced the one rupee note on November[Read More…]
Chandigarh’s BJP MP Kirron Kher has stirred a controversy by giving unsolicited advice to a young woman who was gang-raped earlier this month by an auto-rickshaw driver and his two accomplices. Kher said on Wednesday that the victim should have been more cautious and not boarded the auto-rickshaw in which[Read More…]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has brought a strange gratification to the internet generation by resolving the most bizarre of issues over which a storm was blowing for weeks recently. I think we need to have a discussion about how Google's burger emoji is placing the cheese underneath the burger, while[Read More…]
Expressing hope that India will be able to create “world-class infrastructure” in another 20 years, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said that his confidence in the timeline was based on how the country has become an “aspirational society” whose energies have been unleashed by the 1991 economic liberalisation. Delivering[Read More…]
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday termed demonetisation a money laundering scheme, and raked up the issue of BJP President Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah’s company recording massive turnover after the NDA government came to power. “Demonetisation was implemented suddenly, maybe he did not like the Rs 500 and[Read More…]
There’s no magic solution to the smog problem in the Indian capital as it’s caused by a variety of factors, United Nations Environment head Erik Solheim has said, adding: “The key here is providing clear, decisive leadership on the issue.” It’s the same in New Delhi, Manchester, London, Beijing or[Read More…]
Acclaimed Indian talent Irrfan Khan, who has dabbled in Bollywood and Hollywood, says the key difference between performing in the two industries lies in how the audience perceives an actor — for one, the parameter is engagement and charisma, while for the other, it is the nuance and subtlety. “I[Read More…]
Even as India moved into the top 100 for the first time in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business global rankings, there’s a lot more that needs to be done to keep up with the rest of the world, said Diljit Rana, one of the UK’s top businessmen and[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that there has been a “positive change” in the mindset and self-confidence of the people ever since his government came to power in 2014. “If we see the country as a living entity then the positive attitude that has come to India, was[Read More…]
As we enter the last month of 2017 — a significant year from the publishing point of view — the wide variety of books published over the past eleven months, both fiction and nonfiction, make a case for book lovers. Despite the rising trend of mediocrity in the literary world,[Read More…]
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi a question every day in the run-up to the Gujarat assembly elections, the party said. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala on Wednesday said Gandhi would ask a question to the Prime Minister every day. “Rahul Gandhi is asking[Read More…]
Congress leader and Maharashtra Congress Secretary Shehzad Poonawalla on Wednesday questioned the process to elect party President, calling it “rigged” and said Vice President Rahul Gandhi must first resign from his post. Poonawalla said he would also contest the election if it was conducted in a “genuine” manner. On Tuesday,[Read More…]
Hyderabad police on Wednesday said it arrested a mentally unstable man who made a hoax call about a bomb being planted in Falaknuma Palace when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump’s daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump were attending a dinner on Tuesday. The call was made to[Read More…]
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is likely to file his nomination for the election to the Congress president’s post on December 4, said party sources. The last date for filing nominations has been set as December 4, and scrutiny will be done on December 5. The last date for withdrawing[Read More…]
Returning home after two-day visit to attend Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor of US President Donald Trump, on Wednesday termed her visit “remarkable”. US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster, India’s Ambassador to the US, Navtej Sarna and other officials saw her off at Rajiv Gandhi International[Read More…]