Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that all the villages in the country would get electricity connection by May 2017, a year before the 1000-day deadline set by the NDA government ends. The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines also[Read More…]
Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Kalraj Mishra is in China to attend the China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair (CISMEF). Mishra reached Guangzho on Saturday with delegation of 124 Indian Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). India is partnering with Bureau of China International[Read More…]
India and Pakistan staged two of the bloodiest cross-border surgical strikes in 2011 which saw at least 13 soldiers were killed, and six of them decapitated. Five of those heads were carried across the border as trophies — two to Pakistan and three to India. Official documents, video and photographic[Read More…]
India will retaliate and “not count the bullets” if attacked, home minister Rajnath Singh said after assessing security on border with Pakistan in the wake of surgical strikes. Singh, who visited BSF’s Munabao Border Outpost, assured the security personnel that the government will do everything to improve the border infrastructure,[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Sunday launch a series of works dedicated to Deen Dayal Upadhyay in his birth centenary year. The 15-volume work highlights key events in the life of Upadhyay, the journey of Jana Sangh and of the country includes watershed events like the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war,[Read More…]
On the occasion of Durga Navratri, Telangana chief minister Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will present an 11.7 kg gold crown worth over ₹3 crore to Goddess Bhadrakali at Warangal on Sunday. The offering is towards fulfillment of Rao’s vow, which he had made during the agitation for a separate Telangana.[Read More…]
Maharashtra Women and Child Welfare Minister Pankaja Munde has found herself in a new controversy after a purported audio clip appeared in which she is heard ‘threatening’ a priest of the Bhagwangad hill shrine in Ahmednagar district. Munde could be heard saying false cases would be lodged against the supporters[Read More…]
After various rumours and ‘reports’ of statements made by actor Fawad Khan on Pakistani actors being banned by Bollywood, the Kapoor & sons star has finally spoken up on his official Facebook account. Fawad had flown back to Lahore few days back, as his wife Sadaf was expecting the couple’s[Read More…]
In a case of traditions taking the better of logic, a 13-year-old girl in Hyderabad died last week after fasting for 68 days in a Jain ritual observed during the holy period of ‘Chaumasa‘. Named Aradhana, the girl was a student of class 8 and was admitted to the hospital[Read More…]
It is said that the art of storytelling can change the way this world thinks and yet is the most difficult task to do. But one organization is changing the status quo, word by word and story by story. Working in the field of community development, child welfare and education,[Read More…]
Curfew was re-imposed in Srinagar after 12-year-old Junaid Ahmad succumbed to pellet injuries. The boy was killed after security forces fired pellet guns at protesters in Srinagar on Saturday evening, sparking widespread anger in the city and prompting authorities to impose a curfew As per the police, security forces fired[Read More…]
As Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa has been advised a “longer stay” at the hospital, AIADMK functionaries are contemplating a stand-in leadership to hold the reins of the government. The two options are either handing over her portfolios to senior ministers or have an alternative chief minister like Edappadi K Palaniswami and[Read More…]
A petition calling for the removal of a of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi from a university in Ghana is gaining popular support. The university has cited a controversy over what critics call his “racist identity.” Even though the government has made it clear that the removal would be for[Read More…]
The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it is opposed to the Muslim practice of triple talaq, describing it as “misplaced in a secular country.” The constitution allows Muslims, the biggest religious minority group in the country, to regulate matters such as marriage, divorce and inheritance through their[Read More…]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday that the India-Pakistan border will be sealed completely by December 2018. Speaking to media after reviewing the security situation on border with ministers and officials of four States, Singh said India is planning to seal the entire border with Pakistan by December[Read More…]
A Hindu son can divorce his wife for cruelty if she tries to pry him away from his “pious obligation” to live with his aged parents and provide shelter for them, the Supreme Court held. A woman becomes part of the husband’s family and cannot seek to separate him from[Read More…]
Muzzafarnagar’s Budhana tehsil will not witness the performance of its star artist in this year’s Ramlila. After a few people from Shiv Sena protested to a ‘Muslim’ man playing a character in Ram Leela, Siddiqui decided to pull out in order to maintain the “peace” in village. “We forward to[Read More…]
Many airports and important places have been put on high alert after receiving intelligence information of a possible terrorist attack. More than 22 airports across the country, including civil airports in India’s western states and other important ones like those in Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, have been alerted. The forces[Read More…]
AforAccounts.com, a platform which contains 700+ digital lectures library to help provide quality education free of cost to commerce stream students is a brainchild of Priya Bangard, a Chartered Accountant (C.A) by profession. Priya Bangard who hails from the city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan has seen many people struggling for access[Read More…]
Coming down heavily on the Delhi government’s handling of dengue and chikungunya menace in Delhi, the Supreme Court on Thursday said the authorities here were “not interested” and the people have been “left to suffer”. It also expressed disappointment over the outcome of Wednesday’s meeting between the Lieutenant Governor and[Read More…]
The village of Bisara witnessed escalated tensions on Tuesday night after the death of Ravi, one of the accused in Dadri Lynching reached his village. Police personnel manned the village gates, mosque and local temple among other places as many took to the streets to organise rallies and burn the[Read More…]
The one-man judicial commission set up by the HRD ministry has finished its inquiry into the suicide of Rohith Vemula. Constituted on January 28, 11 days after Vemula killed himself in his hostel room, the commission submitted its 41-page report where the report has claimed that Rohith’s mother “branded” herself[Read More…]
Human rights crusader Irom Sharmila was acquitted on charges of attempt to commit suicide (under section 309) by an Imphal court on Wednesday. After she was acquitted, the ‘Iron Lady of Manipur’ announced that she will set up a new regional political party on October 10 to contest the coming Manipur assembly polls due[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa will now be attended by three specialists from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Chennai’s Apollo Hospital. This update was confirmed by hospital sources (HT) and on Thursday morning AIIMS doctors, pulmonologist Dr GC Khilnani, cardiologist Dr Nitish Naik and anaesthetist Dr[Read More…]
Three militants were killed in an attack on the army camp in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district during early hours Thursday. Two attacks were carried out at the camp located at Langate in Handwara region and heavy gunfire was exchanged. The first exchange lasted for around 20 minutes, after which search operations[Read More…]
