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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has stressed on strict adherence to timelines to ensure there is no delay in commissioning of projects in the state. Urging the Jammu and Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency (ERA) to strictly adhere to fixed timelines, the chief minister instructed Planning Department to monitor the pace of work on […]
Today in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairing a high level meeting on drought and water scarcity with the Chief Minister of Gujarat Anandiben Patel.
Deepak Shodhan, who was the first Indian to make a Test century in his debut innings, has died aged 87. He had been India’s oldest living Test cricketer. Shodhan passed away at his residence in Ahmedabad. He had been suffering from lung cancer, which detected in February this year. The funeral was scheduled for 11 […]
Tamil Nadu witnessed brisk polling in 232 Assembly constituencies today with over 18 per cent voters exercising their franchise by 9 AM. According to a senior electoral official, 18.3 per cent voters had cast their votes. Election Commission had deferred polling in Aravakurichi and Thanjavur following allegations of bribing of voters. Following the Election Commission’s […]
Cricketer Suresh Raina on Sunday became a father after his wife Priyanka Chaudhary gave birth to a baby girl at a private hospital in Amsterdam. The India cricketer became a first time father after his daughter and has named his daughter Gracia. Welcome my beautiful daughter. #GraciaRaina🙈👨👩👧. Long wait but totally worth it. #ProudFather.She is […]
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today suggested that Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan be removed from the post as he was responsible for “unemployment and collapse” of industrial activity. “In my opinion, RBI Governor is not appropriate for the country. I don’t want to speak much about him. He has hiked interest rates in the garb […]
It was an emotional homecoming for 16 Indians rescued from strife-torn Libya as they reached here today. All of them are from Kerala and are among 29 Indians evacuated after they were stranded in Libya. They left by flight from the Libyan city of Tripoli to Istanbul, from where they came to Dubai and then […]
Today Morning in Delhi, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Praveen Rashtrapal died due to a cardiac attack at the age of 77. MP Praveen Rashtrapal took his last breath in New Delhi. Congress Rajya Sabha MP belongs from Patan District. He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Gujarat in the Rajya Sabha.
Rights activist Trupti Desai today entered Mumbai’s Haji Ali Dargah to offer prayers amid tight security, saying her struggle was for gender equality. “At the Dargah, I prayed that women be allowed to enter the inner sanctum, as was the case till 2011,” Bhumata Ranragini Brigade chief Desai said, after coming out of the Dargah. […]
The Supreme Court today struck down the TRAI regulation making it mandatory for telecom companies to compensate subscribers for call drops holding it as “arbitrary, unreasonable and non-transparent”. “We have held the impugned regulation to be ultra vires, arbitrary, unreasonable and non-transparent,” a bench comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and R F Nariman said. The apex […]
