The Congress on Friday said the Narendra Modi government is scared of convening the winter session of Parliament because of Gujarat polls and appealed to President Ram Nath Kovind to take notice of this and ask the government to convene the session. Asked if the party would approach the President[Read More…]
Tag: Featured
I&B Ministry should resolve ‘Padmavati’ controversy
Questioning Narendra Modi government’s silence over the ‘Padmavati’ film controversy, the Congress on Friday said the Information and Broadcasting Ministry must resolve the issue by talking to both the sides. “There has been a huge controversy surrounding the the film Padmavati. The government must find a way to resolve the[Read More…]
Karnataka to promote start-ups with French collaboration
Karnataka has signed an agreement with Business France India to collaborate on promoting start-ups in five areas. “We have identified the five areas of collaboration for promoting start-up ecosystems in both countries,” Karnataka IT Minister of State Priyank Kharge told reporters on Friday on the margins of the Bengaluru Tech[Read More…]
Health ministry rolls out new daily drug regimen for TB
The Health Ministry on Friday said it has changed the treatment strategy for Tuberculosis (TB) from thrice a week to daily drug regimen using fixed-dose combinations (FDC). According to the Ministry, the change will bring transformation in the approach to dealing with this disease which accounts for about 4.2 lakh[Read More…]
Review ‘An Insignificant Man’: Significantly eulogizing
Film: “An Insignificant Man” Directors: Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla Cast: Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav, Santosh Koli, Sheila Dikshit Rating: **1/2 “An Insignificant Man” is an intermittently inspiring documentary that chronicles the meteoric rise of Arvind Kejriwal – the anti-corruption activist-turned-politician to the Chief Minister of Delhi. This 100-minute documentary starts[Read More…]
Eminent artists from world to pay tributes to India’s first woman PM Indira Gandhi
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…]
Oxford dictionaries seeks ‘Hindi Word of the Year’
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…]
Selena Gomez confirms relationship with Justin Bieber with a kiss
Amid mounting speculation about the status of their relationship, singers Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber have made it clear they are a couple again — when they indulged in public display of affection. In several photographs obtained by dailymail.com, Gomez can be seen giving Bieber a kiss as he skates[Read More…]
Bihar: 13 patients die after Patna hospital’s junior doctors strike work
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…]
Money-laundering probe: ED summons Tejashwi, Rabri in IRCTC case
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…]
BJP, govt cheer Moody’s ratings upgrade; says it’s recognition of good work
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…]
BJP announces Gujarat first list, six defecting Congress MLAs get tickets
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…]
Maoists had a deadly run in 2016: Global terror report
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…]
Amitabh Bachchan rubbishes accident rumours in Kolkata
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…]
PM Modi reviews performance of key infrastructure sectors
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…]
In a first, Ericsson demonstrates 5G technology live in India
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…]
Sexual abuse in every alternate household, says actress Radhika Apte
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…]
About 75 per cent vehicle occupants don’t wear seat belts: Survey
Indian roads have a reputation for being unpredictable, unsafe and count as one of the most dangerous in the world, with countless fatalities every year. A logical response to such a scenario will be careful driving with a lot of emphasis on safety but a survey from Maruti Suzuki in association with[Read More…]
Facebook, Google join ‘The Trust Project’ to fight fake news
In their bid to fight fake news and help readers identify trustworthy news sources, Facebook, Google, Twitter and several media organisations have joined the non-partisan “The Trust Project”. “The Trust Project” is led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman of Santa Clara University’s Markkula Centre for Applied Ethics. Starting from Friday,[Read More…]
OPDs in Karnataka private hospitals to reopen today after HC order
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…]
Rs 5 crore bounty on Bhansali’s, Deepika Padukone’s heads announced
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 bags best performing state award in economy, cleanliness
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…]
Rahul Gandhi launches Unorganised Workers’ Congress
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…]
Over 15,000 new cases of TB detected: Health Minister
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…]
Farmers ‘hanged’ to draw people’s attention to suicides in NCR
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…]