India again asks Pak to provide consular access to Jadhav
July 01, 2017 India today again asked Pakistan to grant full and early consular access to its national Kulbhushan Jadav, sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court as the two countries exchanged a list of prisoners lodged in each other’s jails. According to the list Pakistan shared with India, at least 546 Indian nationals, […]
Have not violated any law or insulted the army: Azam Khan
July 01, 2017 After a total of three complaints were filed on Saturday against Azam Khan over his controversial remark on the Indian Army, the Samajwadi Party leader asserted that he has not violated any law or not insulted any army. “Whatever I said were not my words. I have not violated any law or […]
Jaitley Responds to China, Says India of 2017 Different From 1962
IANS Updated: 30 June, 2017 The India of 2017 is different from the India of 1962, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday, a day after China asked New Delhi to learn from its 1962 military debacle. “If they are trying to remind us, the situation in 1962 was different, the India of today […]
Jammu And Kashmir Will Suffer Crippling Losses Without GST: Arun Jaitley
June 30, 2017 NEW DELHI: With Jammu and Kashmir government still undecided on rolling out the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the state from July 1, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday that the border state stood to suffer major losses if it does not implement GST. “J&K (sic) has a different system […]
GST rollout to be very smooth, assures Jaitley
30 June 2017 New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday held out the assurance of a “very smooth” transition into the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, promising that the administration will be very liberal and not implement it “very strictly” in the first two months. Acknowledging that there will be […]
Arun Jaitley urges opposition parties to reconsider boycott of GST launch
Jun 29, 2017 Indo Asian News Service, New Delhi On the eve of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) roll out, when many political parties are announcing they will stay away from the mega launch, finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said they should display broad shoulders and own up to this consensus decision that […]
No atmosphere of fear or insecurity among minorities: Naqvi
June 29, 2017(Agencies) As the nation witnessed a streak of violent incidents targeting minorities, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, in a bid to quell frayed tempers, on Thursday asserted there was no atmosphere of fear or insecurity prevailing among the community. Suspecting the role of some ‘hostile forces’ behind such incidents, the Minister of State for Minority Affairs said such ‘tactics’ […]
Killing people in name of cow protection not acceptable: PM
Ahmedabad, Jun 29 (PTI) In a tough message against cow vigilantism and mob lynching, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said killing people on pretext of protecting cows is not acceptable and warned that no one has the right to take law into his hands. Addressing a public meeting to mark the centenary of the […]
Elderly Muslim severely beaten, house set on fire over dead cow in Jharkhand
June 28, 2017 With incidents of cow vigilantism on the rise, an elderly Muslim man was severely beaten and his house set on fire by a mob in a village of Indian state of Jharkhand after a dead cow was allegedly found outside his residence. According to NDTV report, the Muslim man was identified […]
Mamata First Oppn Leader to Pull Out of Midnight Parliament Session on GST
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress will not attend the special midnight Parliament session convened to mark the rollout the Goods and Services Tax (GST), party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday. In a Facebook post, Banerjee called GST “another epic blunder of the Centre”. “We are deeply concerned about GST […]
