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New Delhi, June 27 Opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar on Tuesday said she will launch her official campaign from Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat on June 30. Accompanied by all the top Opposition leaders, save Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi who is still on holiday, Kumar will file her nomination papersRead More
New Delhi, June 27 Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday asked the Congress to refrain from indulging in politics over GST launch, saying all decisions with regard to the new tax regime were taken unanimously by the GST Council. The GST Council, he said, is the first federal institution whichRead More
Darjeeling/Kolkata, June 27 After an incident-free week, violence returned to the Darjeeling hills with GJM supporters allegedly targeting the house of the chairman of a development board in Kalimpong district and burning copies of the GTA accord. Hundreds of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists held a demonstration and burnt copiesRead More
New Delhi, June 27 With intelligence inputs suggesting enhanced terror threat to Amarnath Yatra which starts on Wednesday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has decided to directly monitor the security arrangements along the route. Sources in the MHA revealed that given the latest multi-agency input on the “enhanced threatRead More
New Delhi, June 27 The JD(U) on Tuesday hit out at the Congress’ “unfriendly and unwarranted” attack on its chief Nitish Kumar and wondered why the party seemed bent on shortening the life of their grand alliance along with the RJD in Bihar. With the JD(U)’s decision to back NDA’sRead More
New Delhi, June 27 Senior advocate K K Venugopal has emerged as the frontrunner for the post of Attorney General following the decision of Mukul Rohatgi to step down as the top law officer in the government. Venugopal’s appointment is likely to be announced shortly after Prime Minister Narendra ModiRead More
New Delhi, June 27 The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to pass any interim order against the Centre’s notification making Aadhaar mandatory for availing benefits of various social welfare schemes. A vacation bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha said no interim order could be passed at this stageRead More
New Delhi, June 27 Although the Narendra Modi government’s pitch for ‘Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan’, ‘Make in India’ campaign, ‘Smart Cities Project’, ‘Digital India Campaign’ and the ‘Zero Effect Zero Defect’ policy (leaving zero effect on the environment), glaring gaps in management of environmentally hazardous E-waste have yet to be addressed.Read More
New Delhi, June 27 Textbooks should not be used as “ideological battleground” between the Left and the Right and should only be children-centric, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has conveyed to HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday. Sisodia, who is also Delhi’s Education Minister, made the observations at aRead More
Srinagar, June 26 Clashes broke out on Monday between the security forces and stone-pelters at several places in the Kashmir Valley after the Eid prayers. At least 10 protesters were injured in the clashes in Anantnag, Sopore, Kulgam, Pulwama and Pattan towns, the state police said. A mob resorted toRead More
