Ahmedabad, Sep 17 (IANS) Narendra Modi, on his first visit after becoming prime minister, arrived here Tuesday, a day ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s three-day sojourn to India, and said his government had generated a new atmosphere of trust. Modi flew in to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport here on a two-day official visit to […]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Two Manipuri students were attacked with a scissor, stones and iron rods by three people, two of them juveniles, when the northeastern youths objected to racist remarks against them, police said Sunday. The attackers have been apprehended. The incident took place around 9 p.m. Saturday at Babulal Chowk in Munirka area […]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Manmohan Singh’s daughter Daman Singh Sunday said her book traces the journey of the former prime minister and his wife Gursharan Kaur’s life from the 1930s to 2004. Speaking after the release of the book “Strictly Personal”, Daman Singh said it talks not just about the two individuals but about the […]
Kolkata, Sep 15 (IANS) Claiming that the Trinamool Congress’ protest demonstration against the CBI here was tantamount to contempt of court, the Congress Sunday said it will move the Supreme Court over the issue. Accusing the Narendra Modi-led BJP government at the centre of using the CBI as a political tool, Trinamool leader and West Bengal […]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) A 14-month-old toddler was killed when a car crushed her in a parking lot in Delhi, police said Sunday. The accident was reported Saturday evening from Karawal Nagar area in east Delhi. Manisha was playing in the parking area when she was crushed. The car was being parked by an unidentified […]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday appealed to people that his birthday should not be celebrated, and instead they should help the Jammu and Kashmir flood victims. In an appeal on his personal Twitter account, Modi said friends and well-wishers were planning to celebrate his birthday Sep 17. “I am hearing from […]
New Delhi, Sep 15 (IANS) Indian race walkers are going the extra mile as they target medals at the Asian Games, starting Friday in the South Korean city of Incheon. Olympian Irfan Thodi, who finished 10th at the 2012 London Olympics, Ganapathy K. and Khusbir Kaur are India’s hopes in the 20-km walk while Olympian Basant […]
Hyderabad, Sep 15 (IANS) The Telangana government is sending 50 water purifier machines costing Rs.2.5 crore to flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao said people in the flood-hit state were facing severe shortage of drinking water and in order to help them purify the available water for drinking purposes, the Telangana government was […]
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Wednesday approved the disinvestment of 10 percent paid-up equity capital in state miner Coal India out of the government shareholding of 89.65 percent. “The decision to disinvest would help the government realise an optimum price for the offer for sale of 10 percent of […]
New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Wednesday approved the disinvestment of 5 percent paid-up equity in hydrocarbons producer ONGC out of the government’s shareholding of 68.94 percent. “This would further broad base the shareholding of the company and would enhance disinvestment receipts. After this disinvestment, the government of India’s shareholding […]