Mother and brother of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide at Hyderabad Central University in January sparking strong protests across the country, today embraced Buddhism on the occasion of Dr B R Ambedkar’s 125th birth anniversary. Rohith’s mother Radhika and brother Naga Chaitanya Vemula, also known as Raja Vemula, were given ‘deeksha’ at a […]
Union Agriculture and farmers Welfare Minister, Shri Radha Mohan Singh here today brief the media about the launching of National Agriculture Market e-market platform. Shri Singh said that the Government of India approved the National Agriculture Market (NAM) Scheme on 1st July 2015 with the objective to usher much needed agri-marketing reforms in order that […]
Today in Rajkot, at Khanderi stadium IPL match between Gujarat Lions and Pune Supergiants will be played. Both the teams have arrived in the city. Today’s match will be an interesting battle of IPL contest. Even, Patidars will actively stage demonstrations against arrest of Patidar leader Hardik Patel who was detained from Rajkot during cricket […]
Curfew-like restrictions continued for the second day in parts of Kashmir and mobile internet services were today suspended in some areas as tension prevailed in the Valley following killing of four persons in action by security forces during violent protests since Tuesday. Strict restrictions have been imposed in Kupwara town, Kralgund, Handwara, Magam and Langate […]
To meet situation of Water scarcity in 8 districts of Gujarat, state government will set up a Control Room to handle complaints on water supply, said water supply minister Vijay Rupani of Gujarat. Rupani added complaints received at Control room will immediately be attended and resolved. Government will hold review meeting in all scarcity hit […]
Today Skipper of Indian team and captain of Rising Pune Supergiants Mahendra Singh Dhoni arrives in Rajkot city for IPL match.
Breaking her silence on former manager Prakash Jaju’s claims on her alleged suicide attempts, actress Priyanka Chopra says he should not have been given attention by the media as his statements were not authentic. In a series of tweets earlier this month, Jaju had said the 33-year-old “Quantico” star tried to commit suicide thrice during […]
The benchmark BSE Sensex zoomed over 372 points to 25,517.78 and the broader NSE Nifty reclaimed the 7,800-mark in early trade today on the back of positive macroeconomic data. Besides, a firming trend in other Asian markets, tracking rallies in the US and Europe as oil prices pushed up to 2016 highs on reports of […]
India and the US today agreed “in principle” to a logistics exchange agreement to enable both militaries to use each other’s assets and bases for repair and replenishment of supplies, an issue which did not find favour with the previous UPA government. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and visiting US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter made it […]
In Jamnagar district, cow protest activists has saved from Itara village of Kalavad after chaising their vehicle near GIDC 6 trucks with 16 culprits with Bolero jeep being taken with more than 70 buffaloes. Made FIR in Taluka police station and culprits Bhaveshbhai Aahir , Kanaji Chauhan, Ajaysinh Jadeja, Subhash Aahir , Kishan Sekhawat, Mombhai, […]
