Beijing, Sep 25 (IANS) China Wednesday voiced firm opposition after the US state department slammed the life sentence given to a scholar from Uygur ethnic group for separatism in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. “Ilham Tohti’s crime is clear, with solid evidence,” Xinhua quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying, adding that the case […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The rural development ministry would Thursday announce a reworked skill development scheme aimed at providing quality training and placement opportunities to poor youth from rural areas and taking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” vision forward. Officials said the reworked scheme – Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojna (DDUGKY) – […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday cancelled 214 coal blocks allocated from 1993 to 2011, except four vested with the NTPC, SAIL and Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP). The court also imposed an additional levy of Rs.295 per tonne of coal extracted from exempted or operational mines. The four coal blocks that […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Wednesday said the government will begin the coal block allocation again on a “clean slate”. “We will begin on a clean slate,” Prasad said when asked about the order on deallocation of coal blocks by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Wednesday cancelled all the coal […]
Baghdad, Sep 24 (IANS) At least 59 people were killed in separate airstrikes and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq Wednesday, while the militants blew two archeological and religious sites in Salahudin province, security sources said. In Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, Iraqi security forces backed by Shia militias recaptured two villages of […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The government has decided to withdraw the controversial Higher Education and Research Bill, 2011, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Wednesday. “There was a bill much in controversy, the higher education research bill 2011. A parliamentary standing committee also had objection on the bill,” Prasad said, briefing reporters after a meeting […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) No blood was detected on the electric iron, stick and metallic horns which were allegedly used by former parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh’s wife to beat her domestic helps, police told a court here. Police on Sep 6 had filed a supplementary chargesheet containing Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report in the maid torture-and-death […]
New Delhi/Washington, Sep 24 (IANS) Among the host of high profile personalities to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his New York visit will be a US politician of especial interest – Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu American in the US Congress and a strong supporter of Modi. Gabbard, a 33-year-old US Democrat Congresswoman from Hawaii, […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The CBI Wednesday booked three Medical Council of India (MCI) officials who in 2012 unauthorisedly allotted post-graduate seats to a Kerala-based medical college. The then additional secretary, deputy secretary and assistant secretary of MCI, along with the principal of the private medical college at Thiruvananthapuram, were booked for criminal conspiracy, cheating […]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) The Centre Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the government needs the cooperation of Ganga-basin states – Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal – for the successful execution of its project to clean the Ganga. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar told the bench of Justice T.S. Thakur and Justice R. […]