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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will inaugurate BRICS conference on arbitration on August 27 which will deliberate on ideas and insights regarding dispute resolution mechanism among the 5 emerging nations that form the group. India has assumed the chairmanship of BRICS-2016 and a major political-cum-business engagement will be held in OctoberRead More
Around 135 houses were washed away on Wednesday due to erosion in river Ganga while 20 villages were submerged in flood waters with the rising water level of the river having crossed the extreme danger level in Malda district. Additional District Magistrate, Malda, Kanchan Chowdhury said 135 houses in BinnagarRead More
New Delhi: A draft bill which aims to safeguard the rights of surrogate mothers and make parentage of such children legal was on Wednesday cleared by the Union Cabinet. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the new bill proposes a complete ban on commercial surrogacy. Only legally-wedded Indian couples willRead More
Ahmedabad: Three persons were on Wednesday arrested in connection with the murder of a journalist at a newspaper office in Gujarat’s Junagadh district with a police probe finding that dispute over money led to the crime. Kishore Dave (53), the bureau chief of Gujarati daily ‘Jai Hind-Sanjh Samachar’, published fromRead More
New Delhi: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday said the leak of secret data of India’s Scorpene-class submarines could be a case of hacking and called for a report. “It came to my knowledge at about 12 AM. What I understand is there is a hacking. So we will findRead More
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday hit out at those misusing altruistic surrogacy, saying what had started in the name of necessity has become a “fashion”. Addressing a press conference after the Union Cabinet approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016, the minister said she feels “sad” toRead More
Patna: As Bihar reels under massive flood situation mainly due to swollen River Ganga, seven persons died thus taking the toll to 127, with 29.71 lakh people being affected by the deluge in 24 districts of the state. While five deaths were reported from Samastipur, one each was reported inRead More
New Delhi: Giving a big push to the infrastructure sector in the country, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, on Wednesday approved nine projects worth about Rs 24,000 crore in nine states for expansion of railway network and connectivity across the country. The CCEA chaired by Prime Minister Narendra ModiRead More
Lucknow, Senior Samajwadi party leader and Rajya Sabha member from Uttar Pradesh Amar Singh has threatened to quit the party, alleging that he was being insulted, kept on ‘mute’ and sidelined following his return to the fold after six years. In a television interview in Delhi, the former national generalRead More
Kolkata: To mark Mother Teresa’s sainthood ceremony in Vatican on September 4, a postal cover, coin and statue will be dedicated to the late Roman Catholic nun. Made of pure silk, India Post will release a special postal and numismatic cover of Mother Teresa, the first of its kind, onRead More
