New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) The Delhi government may soon announce vacancies in the health, Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and the fire service following directions by Lt. Governor Anil Baijal. “Reviewed status of vacancies in various cadres of Delhi Government like Health, FSL and Delhi Fire Services. Directed to expedite[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Kashmir is experiencing an “unprecedented lockdown” with its entire eight million population “incarcerated like never before”, Kashmiri IAS officer-turned-politician Shah Faesal said on Wednesday on the massive security arrangements in place after the Centre scrapped special status for Jammu and Kashmir. Taking to Facebook, Faesal,[Read More…]
Chennai, Aug 7 (IANS) DMK President M.K. Stalin on Wednesday said the BJP-led government at the Centre is promoting communalism in the garb of patriotism and his party will fight it. Stalin also said the central government is now turning into a “centralised government” with ideas like ‘one nation-one election’[Read More…]
Agartala, Aug 7 (IANS) Tripura Governor Ramesh Bais and Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Wednesday condoled the death of former External Affairs Minister and veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj. Former Delhi Chief Minister Swaraj died of cardiac arrest in Delhi on Tuesday night. She was 67. “Sushmaji’s[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced that the government will develop the Anganwadis like the high-end playschools. Kejriwal, along with his Deputy Manish Sisodia, addressed more than 10,000 Anganwadi workers at the Indira Gandhi Stadium here and distributed smartphones to all Anganwadi workers[Read More…]
Chennai, Aug 7 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, here on Wednesday, said the Centre must accord due importance to regional languages and mother tongue if there has to be a united India. She was speaking at the public meeting organised by the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) to mark[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 7 (IANS) Apprehending aviation-related terror incidents as all airports in the country have emerged as “soft targets” post scrapping of Article 370, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued stringent security protocols to prevent any untoward incidents, official sources said here on Wednesday. This would include random security[Read More…]
By Anand Singh New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) The Congress which was split over abrogation of Article 370 relating to Jammu and Kashmir, presented a united front at the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, party sources said. A senior Congress leader who participated in the CWC meeting – the party’s[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 7 (IANS) Pakistan’s top civil and military leadership on Wednesday decided to expel Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria and suspend bilateral trade with India in the wake of New Delhi’s move of revoking special status for Jammu and Kashmir. The decision was taken at a meeting of National[Read More…]
By Ayaskant Das New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Guns have been silent on the Line of Control (LoC) and there are no reports of violence in the Valley ever since the withdrawal of special status to Jammu and Kashmir and its bifurcation, according to a security assessment. The only incident[Read More…]
Islamabad, Aug 7 (IANS) Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said here on Wednesday he would visit Beijing to consult China in the wake of revocation of special status of Jammu and Kashmir by India. Addressing a joint session of Parliament over Kashmir, Qureshi said he “might dash off to[Read More…]
By Pragya Singh New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) To bring research in social sciences on par with science subjects, the University Grants Commission has recommended creation of a Humanities research board with special funding. Termed as Social Science/Humanities research board, the panel has recommended it to be autonomous and obtain[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, Aug 7 (IANS) The Odisha government on Wednesday gave additional charge to 1986-batch IPS officer Bijay Kumar Sharma by appointing him as the Director General of Police (DGP) following the appointment of incumbent DGP R.P. Sharma as a Lokayukta member. Currently, Sharma is serving as DG Fire Services and[Read More…]
Hyderabad, Aug 7 (IANS) Telangana High Court on Wednesday allowed Telugu actor G. Shivaji, who was booked in Alanda Media case, to travel to the United States. The court gave the permission after the actor filed a petition, seeking contempt of court proceedings against the police for not withdrawing lookout[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 7 (IANS) Transmission of benefits of past and present rate cuts by lenders is essential for the automobile sector to drive out of the slowdown, feel industry observers. The Monetary Policy Committee’s (MPC) decision on Wednesday to reduce key lending rates by 35 basis points (bps) would not[Read More…]
Mumbai, Aug 7 (IANS) Apprehending aviation-related terror incidents as all airports in the country have emerged as “soft targets” post scrapping of Article 370, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued stringent security protocols to prevent any untoward incidents, official sources said here on Wednesday. The Bureau of Civil Aviation[Read More…]
Kochi/Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 7 (IANS) The Kerala High Court on Wednesday criticised the way the police went about their job in collecting evidence against IAS officer Sreeram Venkitaraman who secured bail in a road accident case that caused the death of a journalist, even as Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the[Read More…]
Kolkata, Aug 7 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday set aside an arrest warrant issued against West Bengal BJP leader Mukul Roy in connection with a case of cheating and extortion. The arrest warrant was issued by the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Kolkata in a city court on July[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Has the question on origin or birth of religious figures or gods been raised in any court in the world? The Supreme Court posed this to the counsel of Ram Lalla Virajman during the second day of hearing in the Ayodhya dispute on Wednesday. While[Read More…]
Jaipur, Aug 7 (IANS) As the nation mourns the death of former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, a medical college student, who migrated from Pakistan to Jaipur in 2014, remembers the minister for hand-holding her in adverse situations to ensure that she gets admission in the medical college without falling[Read More…]
Bengaluru, Aug 7 (IANS) Chip-making giant Intel on Wednesday said it has trained more than 150,000 developers, students and professors across 150 organisations in India over the past two years to boost the Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem in the country. “At Intel, we’re encouraged by the impact that AI is[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) The Unnao rape survivor, who is undergoing treatment at AIIMS trauma centre, continues to be critical and on advanced life support systems, a hospital official said on Wednesday. “Her lawyer continues to be critical, unconscious and on advanced life support system. The patients are undergoing[Read More…]
Amaravati, Aug 7 (IANS) Delegates from over 35 countries are expected to participate in the diplomatic outreach event being organised by the Andhra Pradesh government here on Friday in an attempt to attract foreign investment in the state. The delegates from various countries including Korea, Britain, the US, Japan and[Read More…]
New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir has always been in news but over the last few days, the troubled part of India has attracted heightened interest, in the run-up to and after removal of special status and bifurcation of the state. President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday signed[Read More…]
Spielberg (Austria), Aug 7 (IANS) Marc Marquez of the Repsol Honda Team is vying to win his first MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix in 2019, an event set to take place here on Sunday. The 26-year-old Spaniard has yet to win at the Red Bull Ring, a race that has always[Read More…]
