New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over an alleged scam in the Rafale fighter aircraft deal with France. Issuing a “Modi Scam Alert!” Gandhi tweeted: “$15 billion fighter jet deal re-tendered. Prime Minister’s friends race to tie up strategic partners. “RAFALE, (Rs) 40,000[Read More…]
Brasilia: Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has ignored a deadline to surrender to the Federal Police and begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption, the media reported. An arrest warrant required Lula, 72, to surrender to police by 5 p.m. on Friday in the southern city[Read More…]
Chandigarh: ‘Gobar-dhan Yojana’, the central scheme for managing and converting cattle dung into manure and biogas, will be launched at the national level from Karnal in Haryana on April 30, a state government spokesman said here on Friday. Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Uma Bharti and Haryana Chief[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday alleged that the BJP government of Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan was involved in setting ablaze the house of one of the party’s Dalit leaders and former Rajasthan Minister Bharoselal Jatav. It said that even as a mob of about 5,000 anti-social elements set ablaze[Read More…]
New Delhi: Slamming the ruling BJP and NDA MPs for saying they would not take salaries and perks for the days Parliament did not function, CPI leader D. Raja on Thursday said those not taking salaries have a “guilty conscience”. “They are not taking salaries as they have a guilty[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Thursday lashed out at Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar and accused him of “lying” and said it is the government that did not allow the Parliament to function. Earlier in the day, Kumar accused the Congress of being the “main culprit” for the[Read More…]
New Delhi: In a move to establish a regulatory framework for online media and news portals, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has set up a committee that will recommend the formation of appropriate policy. The committee, which has Secretary of the ministry as its convener, was set up a day after[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday said BJP President Amit Shah is exaggerating that his party would win more than 120 seats in the 2019 assembly elections. “I think that is very exaggerating,” Patnaik told reporters here. Odisha, which will face general and assembly elections in 2019, has[Read More…]
New Delhi: All the five Lok Sabha Members of YSR Congress on Thursday announced they will resign from Parliament and sit on an indefinite hunger strike at Andhra Bhawan here over their demand for special category status to Andhra Pradesh. The party also said that on one pretext or the another,[Read More…]
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the Class 12 economics question paper leak, the Human Resources Development (HRD) Ministry has set up a high-power committee to examine the CBSE’s examination process. The committee, constituted on Tuesday, comprises experts under the chairmanship of former HRD Secretary V.S. Oberoi. It will suggest[Read More…]
Hubballi: BJP President Amit Shah was in for a surprise on Tuesday when Election Commission officials searched his private aircraft on landing in this Karnataka city for party events ahead of the May 12 assembly poll. “A team of our officials searched the chartered aircraft in which Shah arrived here[Read More…]
Srinagar: Normal life was derailed in the Kashmir Valley on Wednesday as separatists announced a protest march to Shopian town in solidarity with civilians killed in fighting between militants and security forces. As train services remained suspended for a third consecutive day, the authorities closed all educational institutions and postponed[Read More…]
Srinagar: Heavy deployment of security forces was made in Srinagar and other sensitive places in the Kashmir Valley to maintain peace and law and order, even though the separatists did not call for a shutdown, officials said. The authorities decided to close all educational institutions and postpone exams scheduled for[Read More…]
New Delhi: The government announced on Tuesday it will not conduct any re-examination for Class 10 maths paper despite an alleged leak of the question paper. “Consequent to the preliminary evaluation of the impact of reportedly leaked CBSE Class 10 maths paper and keeping in mind the paramount interest of[Read More…]
New Delhi: The government has no intention of changing the existing reservation policy for Dalits and tribes, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced on Tuesday. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh dubbed as rumours speculation that the government wanted to end the reservation system. “Rumours are being spread about[Read More…]
Bhopal: With the death of one more person, the toll in the police action during protests against the Supreme Court’s dilution of a law aimed at preventing atrocities against Dalits and tribes has risen to seven, officials said on Tuesday. Police said three deaths each had been reported from Gwalior[Read More…]
Patna: The RJD, Congress and CPI-ML legislators protested in the Bihar Assembly on Tuesday against the police action on Dalits during demonstrations in the state the previous day. Soon after the last day of the budget session began, the opposition members trooped near the Speaker’s podium carrying placards, posters and[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders have apologized to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for making allegations against him, a source said on Monday. A Kejriwal aide told IANS that a joint petition will be filed by the AAP leaders and Jaitley in a Delhi[Read More…]
Patna: BJP leader Anil Singh, the key accused in inciting communal violence in Bihar’s Aurangabad district, surrendered on Monday, two days after he escaped from police custody, the authorities said. Soon after he surrendered, Singh was sent to 14 days judicial custody, Aurangabad Superiintendent of Police Satya Prakash Singh said. Singh,[Read More…]
Lucknow: A ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by some Dalit groups against a Supreme Court ruling on the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Act triggered violence in parts of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, police said. Protesters attacked shops, looted some of them and pelted stones at police in Hapur, Agra, Meerut and Saharanpur, reports[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was informed on Monday that the Centre has filed a review petition over the Supreme Court’s order for the dilution of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. Amid protests and din in the Lower House, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said the SC/ST Act was an important[Read More…]
Patna: Thousands of Dalit members on Monday staged protests across Bihar on Monday against the dilution of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, disrupting rail and road traffic, police said. With posters, banners and flags, supporters of the Bhim Army and other Dalit organidations, halted over a dozen long-distance trains,[Read More…]
Chennai: The DMK on Monday staged protests here against the Central government for not setting up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) as per the Supreme Court’s orders. Party members protested in several places in the city including the arterial Anna Salai stretch in Saidapet here affecting traffic. The DMK had[Read More…]
Srinagar: Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar on Monday to maintain law and order in the wake of the killing of 20 people in three separate gunfights on Sunday, police said. Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin[Read More…]
Lucknow: A statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was vandalised in Allahabad on Saturday, police said. The statue with its head chopped off was found by residents at a park in the city’s Trivenipuram locality. “We are aware of the matter and are trying to locate the suspects,” Senior[Read More…]
