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Honeypreet Insan sent to six-day police remand

Honeypreet Insan sent to six-day police remand

October 04, 2017 Honeypreet Insan, ‘adopted’ daughter of convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, was sent to a six day police remand by the Panchkula Court, on Wednesday. Honeypreet arrived at the Panchkula court complex in the afternoon, along with Sukhdeep Kaur, another Dera follower, who gave shelter to Honeypreet during her abscond. Honeypreet’s lawyer, while coming […]

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Case filed against Prakash Raj for calling PM ‘bigger actor’ than him

Case filed against Prakash Raj for calling PM ‘bigger actor’ than him

October 04, 2017 A case has been registered against actor Prakash Raj in a Lucknow Court on a complaint by a lawyer over his reported remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Prakash Raj had earlier said that PM Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are better actors than him. He also said he […]

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Army Major killed, 3 officers injured in accident in Jammu

Army Major killed, 3 officers injured in accident in Jammu

An Army Major was killed and three other officers, including a colonel, were injured when the car they were travelling in skidded off the Jammu-Poonch highway here today, police according to reports said. Their car hit a tree around 03.30 a.m. today at the Thati-Gharota area in Jammudistrict, they said. An officer identified as Major Ashish […]

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GST to impact manufacturing sector: RBI

GST to impact manufacturing sector: RBI

October 04, 2017 The implementation of GSThad an adverse impact on manufacturing and may delay investment revival, the Reserve Bank said today while hoping that there will be simplification of the new indirect tax regime to the ease business process. In its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2017- 18, RBI forecast economic growth to slow to 6.7 per cent in the current […]

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Why police is failing to identify the brains behind braid chopping, as the incidents are gripping Srinagar

Why police is failing to identify the brains behind braid chopping, as the incidents are gripping Srinagar

VOV Correspondent: Srinagar: Fresh two incidents of alleged braid chopping at Bemina and Khanyar in Srinagar city on Wednesday has once more shown how city is becoming now a victim uncertainty and fear among the womenfolk. From Batamaloo, now it has spread to the other parts of Srinagar city, sparking of protests and instilling fear […]

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Demonetisation an ‘idiotic jolt’ to economy, GST badly implemented: Arun Shourie

Demonetisation an ‘idiotic jolt’ to economy, GST badly implemented: Arun Shourie

October 4, 2017 In a stinging interview to a news channel, Arun Shourie on Tuesday criticised the Narendra Modi-led government over the “sliding economic growth and increasing job losses”. The former union minister also likened demonetisation with suicide saying the latter too is “a bold step” to take. Shourie, speaking to NDTV, called demonetisation as “the […]

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Budding Jammu and Kashmir cricketers on way to Pune for training camp

Budding Jammu and Kashmir cricketers on way to Pune for training camp

October 4, 2017 An excited bunch of 15 budding cricketers from border town of Uri in Jammu and Kashmir are on their way to Pune for a special training camp organised for them by the Army and an NGO. The 15 lucky players, selected during the Uri Premier League conducted by the army during the […]

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BJP government not providing supportive environment for growth: Ex-Finance Minister Chidambaram

BJP government not providing supportive environment for growth: Ex-Finance Minister Chidambaram

MELBOURNE: Criticising the BJP government for not providing a “very supportive” environment for India’s growth, former finance minister P Chidambaram said demonetisation and the GST have caused a severe setback to the economy which is now becoming visible. Delivering a public lecture on ‘An Emerging Power Engages the World: India and Australia’, at the Australia India […]

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Pak raises Kashmir issue at UN, India calls it lonely voice

Pak raises Kashmir issue at UN, India calls it lonely voice

October 4, 2017,   Pakistan on Wednesday raised the Kashmir issue at the UN with its envoy accusing India of spreading terrorism in the Valley. Pakistan’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi, during a debate of the General Assembly, also alleged that India made a “false claim” of conducting surgical strike across […]

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Police use force detain scores of protesting Batamaloo traders

Police use force detain scores of protesting Batamaloo traders

Police used batons to chase away protesting Batamaloo bus stand traders, transporters and street vendors on Wednesday in Lal Chowk as they were trying to meet chief minister Mehbooba Mufti at civil secretariat. Police used force to disperse them and arrested scores of them at different places in lal Chowk as they were trying to […]