SC Directs Banks, Mobile Service Providers to Include Last Date for Linking Aadhaar in Alerts
November 3, 2017 Seeking the government’s response on four petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Aadhaar Act, the Supreme Court on Friday said the banks and telecom service providers should indicate the last date of linking bank accounts and mobile numbers with Aadhaar in the alert messages sent by them to their customers. The apex court […]
Hit A Button On Your Phone, And A Chinese Youth Gets A Job: Rahul Gandhi
GUJARAT: The morning after India was recognised for vast self-improvement making it an easier place to do business, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that “it is just a handful of businessmen who have found the going easier” as he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of encouraging crony capitalism and failing to create jobs. Mr Gandhi’s criticism was […]
Cong releases poll manifesto for Himachal; woos farmers, students
November 01, 2017 The ruling Congress in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday released its manifesto, promising to strengthen the farm sector by granting interest-free loans to farmers, creation of 1.5 lakh jobs in the government sector and free laptops to 50,000 college students. Restoration of the pre-2004 pension scheme, regularisation of contract employees after two years, enhanced […]
China rejects report of planned tunnel to divert Brahmaputra waters
China denied a media report on Tuesday as “false and untrue” after it said Beijing was planning to build a 1,000-km long tunnel to divert water from the Brahmaputra river in Tibet close to Arunachal Pradesh to the parched Xinjiang region. South China Morning post, based in Hong-Kong, on Monday reported that engineers in China […]
Dhumal to be BJP’s CM candidate in Himachal
October 31, 2017 NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday named Prem Kumar Dhumal as the party’s chief ministerial face for the upcoming assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh. Party chief Amit Shah made the announcement at a public meeting, thus ending speculation over the party’s choice for the top post. “The BJP is going to fight the Himachal Pradesh assembly […]
PM flags off ‘Run for Unity’, slams Cong for ignoring Patel
October 31, 2017 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday flagged off the ‘Run for Unity’ paying rich tributes to country’s first Home Minister Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and slammed efforts made to undermine his contributions in nation building. “People tried to ensure the contribution of Sardar Patel is forgotten. However, the youth of India respects […]
India tops list of new TB cases in 2016: WHO
Oct 31, 2017, New Delhi: India topped the list of seven countries, accounting for 64 percent of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2016, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday. India was followed by Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria and South Africa, according to a Global TB […]
Amit Shah asks Congress to clarify stand on Kashmir separatists, Rohingyas.
BJP national president Amit Shah, slammed Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi and said that they should clarify the party’s stand on separatists in Kashmir and the illegal migration of Rohingyas.Amit shah has started his five-day tour to Himachal on Monday, Addressing an election rally at Banikhet of Dalhousie asssembly segment in Chamba […]
Y.C Modi new NIA Chief.
Senior IPS officer Y.C. Modi, who was part of a Supreme Court-appointed team that probed the 2002 Gujarat riots cases, on Monday took over as NIA chief, succeeding Sharad Kumar. In an official statement, the counter terror probe agency said, Yogesh Chander Modi, a 1984 batch IPS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, took over as Director […]
Connectivity should be open, equitable: India on Belt and Road project
Oct 28, 2017 New Delhi: A day after China said that it welcomes other countries including India to join its ‘One Belt One Road’ initiative, which includes the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the government on Friday said connectivity has to be open and equitable. “Though India supports connectivity, it has to be open and equitable,” […]
