Eminent artists from the world of classical dance and music will come together on stage to pay tributes to India’s first woman Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary on Sunday. Organised by the All India National Congress, the event, titled “Indira Priyadarshini”, will be held at Nehru[Read More…]
Here’s a chance for Hindi speakers across the country to help choose a Hindi Word of the Year 2017. Oxford Dictionaries is calling for “The Hindi Word of the Year” which will be a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of interest over the last 12 months.[Read More…]
At least 13 patients died after more than 500 junior doctors at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) here went on a strike to protest an assault by a deceased patient’s attendants, hospital officials said on Friday. “Thirteen critical patients died due to lack of treatment after the doctors[Read More…]
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said that it has summoned RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s wife Rabri Devi and son Tejashwi Yadav in connection with a money-laundering probe into the 2006 IRCTC hotel maintenance contract case. An ED official, confirming the dates of the summons, told IANS: “We have summoned[Read More…]
The ruling BJP and the government on Friday cheered US credit ratings agency Moody’s upgradation of India’s sovereign ratings, with party President Amit Shah and several ministers tweeting that it was a recognition of all the good work done by the NDA. “India’s largest ever increase in Ease of Doing[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday announced its first list of 70 candidates for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, giving tickets to six of the defecting Congress MLAs. Staying ahead of the opposition party in the announcement, the saffron party list shows that it has repeated[Read More…]
Maoist extremists have had a deadly run in 2016 with their involvement in half of the killings in the Red Corridor, a report by a Sydney-based think tank on global terror has said. More than half of the 340 deaths in 929 terror attacks in 2016 were committed by Maoists[Read More…]
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has rubbished all rumours about meeting with a car accident in Kolkata, saying he is well. “I am informed by concerned well-wishers and media, that I had a close escape from a car accident in Kolkata… that is incorrect, there has been no accident. I am well,”[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday reviewed progress of key infrastructure sectors, including roads, housing, coal and power and hoped the advancement of the Union Budget date would lead to further improvement in performance. The review meeting, which lasted for about two-and-a-half-hours, was attended by top officials from the Prime[Read More…]
Aiming to bring the latest innovations and creating a 5G ecosystem in India, global communications technology leader Ericsson on Friday showcased the first-ever live 5G end-to-end demonstration in the country. The demonstration using Ericsson’s 5G test bed and 5G New Radio (NR) delivered a throughput of 5.7 Gbps and ultra-low[Read More…]
Actress Radhika Apte feels that sexual abuse does not only exist in the world of showbiz but takes place in every alternate household. “Sexual abuse takes place in every alternate household. So it’s not a part of just the film industry. You have so much child abuse, domestic abuse everywhere[Read More…]
Private hospitals across Karnataka, including Bengaluru would reopen their Out Patient Departments (OPDs) on Friday on the advice of the Karnataka High Court on Thursday, said two official of the medical associations. “OPDs in all private hospitals across Bengaluru will re-open on Friday as advised by the High Court bench,”[Read More…]
A Meerut resident from the Kshatriya community on Thursday announced a bounty of Rs 5 crore on the heads of film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and actor Deepika Padukone for “wrongfully portraying” queen Padmini in their coming film ‘Padmavati’. Thakur Abhishek Som of Sardhana Chaubisi, who claimed affiliation to the[Read More…]
Telangana has bagged the best performing large state award in economy category as well as the cleanliness and environment category at the annual ‘India Today’ State of the States rankings this year. The awards were received on behalf of the state by the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K.T.Rama[Read More…]
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a new unit for the unorganised sector workers called the All India Unorganised Workers’ Congress and said “it will strive to provide voice to those working in different parts of the country”. Interacting with the members of the Unorganised Workers’ Congress, Rahul[Read More…]
Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Thursday said that under the government’s initiative, over 15,000 more tuberculosis (TB) cases have been detected. “We have already completed two campaigns covering 257 districts and screened over 30 million vulnerable persons and detected over 15,000 fresh TB cases. We are planning the next[Read More…]
With an aim to draw the attention of thousands of Delhiites towards farmers’ suicides, Jai Kisan Andolan of Swaraj India on Thursday displayed farmers’ dummies hanging from various flyovers in Delhi and Noida. With a message, “Three lakh farmers committed suicide in India, Let’s stop this now”, Jai Kisan Andolan[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday named Ajoy Kumar as the President of Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee and Alamgir Alam as the leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in the state. Ajoy Kumar, who is the national spokesperson of the Congress party, was a member of Lok Sabha[Read More…]
With mobile handset vendors shipping 80 million mobile handset units in India in the third quarter this year, the shipments are likely to touch 262 million units by the end of fourth quarter, market research firm CMR said on Thursday. According to CMR’s “India Monthly Mobile Handset Market Review Report[Read More…]
Indians are living in a climate of hate and intolerance, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan says, adding that the Congress was incapable of fighting “communal forces” ideologically. Vijayan also said that the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) will decide whether he has to exit Kerala and play a larger national[Read More…]
Hundreds of private hospitals across Karnataka on Thursday shut their OPDs again as thousands of doctors intensified their strike against the penal provisions in the amendment bill to the KPME Act drafted by the government. The four-day strike began on Tuesday. The OPDs were also shut on November 3. “OPDs[Read More…]
President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday said that while the country remained committed to peace, it is determined to use all its might to protect the sovereignty of the nation. “Though we remain firmly committed to peace, we are determined to use all our might to protect the sovereignty of[Read More…]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has urged Singaporean businesses to invest in India, highlighting the country as one of the largest FDI recipients with the government undertaking major structural reforms, including Aadhaar, GST and demonetisation. “India has become the most favourable and attractive destination for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI),” Jaitley said[Read More…]
Filmmakers and writers should be allowed to enjoy the freedom of speech and expression and there can’t be curbs put on this, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it rejected a petition seeking to block the release of film ‘An Insignificant Man’ based on Delhi Chief Minister and AAP[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday wished journalists on “National Press Day” and said his government is “fully committed to upholding freedom of press and expression in all forms”. In a series of tweets on Thursday morning, Modi termed free press as the “cornerstone of a vibrant democracy” and said[Read More…]
