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Government holds review meet on A320 Neo | New Delhi, Jan 9 (TIWN / IANS) The Central government held a meeting with -- IndiGo, engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney (P&W) and aircraft maker Airbus and GoAir -- on Tuesday to review safety-related incidents with Airbus A320 Neo aircraft, powered by P&W. | 08-Jan-2019 |
Citizenship Bill protest: 6 youths hurt | Agartala/Aizawl, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) Six tribal youths agitating against the Citizenship Amendment Bill were injured in police firing in Tripura as normal life was crippled in Mizoram on Tuesday following an 11-hour shutdown called by the North-East Students Organization (NESO). | 08-Jan-2019 |
Setback for Northeast as Lok Sabha passe | New Delhi, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 that seeks to remove hurdles in eligible migrants from six minority groups from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan getting Indian citizenship despite opposition by various political parties including Congress and Trinamool Congress. | 08-Jan-2019 |
Quota Bill for upper castes introduced i | New Delhi, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) The government on Tuesday introduced a Constitution amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha that seeks to provide 10 per cent reservation for economically backward sections in the general category in government jobs and higher educational institutions. | 08-Jan-2019 |
SC order on CBI chief no setback, govern | New Delhi, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) The government on Tuesday said the Supreme Court verdict on CBI Director Alok Verma's reinstatement was not a "setback" to it and it will comply with the order asking it to convene a meeting of the special committee within a week to look at the issue afresh. | 08-Jan-2019 |
Stray incidents mar NE shutdown in Assam | Guwahati, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) Assam witnessed a total shutdown on Tuesday in response to a shutdown called by the North East Students Organisation (NESO) in protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill even as strike supporters ransacked a BJP office in Dibrugarh town. | 08-Jan-2019 |
Nearly 1 lakh schools in India with only | New Delhi, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) There are more than 90,000 schools with only single teacher teaching in them at the primary and secondary level combined, as per the data available with the government, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Satya Pal Singh said in Parliament on Monday. | 07-Jan-2019 |
BJP-backed Meghalaya government opposes | Shillong, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) The BJP-backed Conrad Sangma government in Meghalaya on Monday said that it will stick to its stand to oppose the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 that aims to give citizenship to illegal migrants of six religious minority groups from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. | 07-Jan-2019 |
Bihar's two top Dalit leaders hail 10% q | Patna, Jan 8 (TIWN / IANS) As the Union Cabinet on Monday approved 10 per cent reservation for economically backward upper castes in jobs and educational institutions, Bihar's two Dalits leaders welcomed it, while two OBCs leaders questioned the proposal. | 07-Jan-2019 |
IAS officer mercilessly beats up youth f | Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) An Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in West Bengal found himself in the eye of a storm on Monday after a video grab showing him and his wife mercilessly beating up a youth at a police station for making "lewd" comments on social media went viral. | 07-Jan-2019 |
AGP snaps ties with BJP over Citizenship | New Delhi, Jan 7 (TIWN / IANS) The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Monday walked out of the alliance with the ruling BJP over the latter's decision to go ahead with the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. | 07-Jan-2019 |
Lok Sabha adjourned till noon | New Delhi, Jan 7 (TIWN / IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned till 12 p.m. on Monday after witnessing unrelenting protests by the Congress demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe in the Rafale fighter jet deal. | 07-Jan-2019 |
Fog dips visibility in Delhi; flights, t | New Delhi, Jan 7 (TIWN / IANS) At least 13 trains and several flights headed towards the national capital were delayed due to fog as the visibility dipped to zero metres on Monday morning. | 07-Jan-2019 |
Now Modi Govt announced to link Aadhaar | Jalandhar, Jan 7 (TIWN / IANS) The government is going to bring a law making linking of Aadhaar with the driving licence mandatory to curb the incidents of duplicate licences, the Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said. | 06-Jan-2019 |
Two miners die in Meghalaya, fate of tra | Shillong, Jan 7 (TIWN / IANS) Two coal miners were killed after another illegal coal mine collapsed in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills even as the fate of 15 miners, trapped inside a flooded coal pit, remained uncertain, an official said on Sunday. | 06-Jan-2019 |
Rajnath to head BJP manifesto committee, | New Delhi, Jan 7 (TIWN / IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will head the Bharatiya Janata Partys 'Sankalp Patra' (manifesto committee), while Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will chair the publicity committee of the BJP for the next Lok Sabha elections. | 06-Jan-2019 |
Ex-CM of Meghalaya says Modi lacks knowl | Shillong, Jan 7 (IANS) Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lacking knowledge about the huge diversity of India's northeastern states, former Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma on Sunday demanded resignation of Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal over the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. | 06-Jan-2019 |
Prove order given to HAL or resign, Rahu | New Delhi, Jan 6 (TIWN / IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday demanded that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman place documents before Parliament to prove her claim that the Modi government has given Rs 1 lakh crore worth of orders to defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), or resign. | 06-Jan-2019 |
Odisha Minister Pradeep Maharathy resign | Bhubaneswar, Jan 6 (TIWN / IANS) Odisha Agriculture and Panchayati Raj Minister Pradeep Maharathy on Sunday resigned from the Naveen Patnaik cabinet over his controversial remarks on the acquittal of two accused in the gangrape and murder of a Dalit girl. | 06-Jan-2019 |
CRPF trooper shoots self after firing at | Srinagar, Jan 6 (TIWN / IANS) A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper has shot himself dead after firing at two colleagues in a camp in the outskirts of Srinagar, police said. | 06-Jan-2019 |
Light rain in Delhi-NCR, no relief from | New Delhi, Jan 6 (TIWN / IANS) The national capital region on Sunday witnessed light rains, with the weather office predicting a drop in the maximum temperature by up to five degrees Celsius, while the air quality remained in the 'very poor' category. | 06-Jan-2019 |
Mamata number one on the list of potenti | Kolkata, Jan 6 (TIWN / IANS) In a surprising statement, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Saturday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was the number one on the list as a potential prime minister from Bengal, remarking that the state should have one in the top post. | 05-Jan-2019 |
States' education performance to be rank | New Delhi, Jan 6 (TIWN / IANS) Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said the performance of states in the field of education would now be assessed on 70 performance indicators creating a healthy competition among them to improve their performance. | 05-Jan-2019 |
MP cabinet approves farm loan waiver, ex | Bhopal, Jan 5 (TIWN / IANS) The Madhya Pradesh cabinet on Saturday approved a farm loan waiver scheme under which dues of farmers worth Rs 2 lakh would be waived in the state. The cabinet also extended the cut-off date for farm loan waiver from March 31 to December 12, 2018. | 05-Jan-2019 |
Plea seeking ban on 'The Accidental Prim | New Delhi, Jan 5 (TIWN / IANS) A petition seeking a ban on trailer of the movie 'The Accidental Prime Minister' was filed in the Delhi High Court, a lawyer said on Saturday. | 05-Jan-2019 |
Parrikar's life in danger over Rafale fi | Panaji, Jan 5 (TIWN / IANS) Ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's life is in danger because he possesses key files related to corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal, Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar has said in a letter to President Ram Nath Kovind, demanding "fool-proof" security to the former Defence Minister who is recuperating from cancer. | 05-Jan-2019 |
Rajya Sabha Vice Chairman launches 'A Cr | New Delhi, Jan 5 (TIWN / IANS) Vice-Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Harivansh Narayan Singh launched Manohar Manoj`s book "A Crusade against corruption" on Saturday at the Press Club of India here. | 05-Jan-2019 |
Flight operations resume at Srinagar air | Srinagar, Jan 5 (TIWN / IANS) Flight operations resumed on Saturday afternoon from Srinagar international airport after remaining suspended for 24 hours. | 05-Jan-2019 |
Preferred to finish pending projects ins | Palamau (Jharkhand), Jan 5 (TIWN / IANS) In an obvious attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he preferred to complete the pending irrigation projects to empower farmers instead of waiving their loans. | 05-Jan-2019 |
5 of family found dead in Srinagar | Srinagar, Jan 5 (TIWN / IANS) Five members of a family were found dead under mysterious circumstances in Jammu and Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar on Saturday, police said. | 05-Jan-2019 |
SC to decide on course of Ayodhya hearin | New Delhi, Jan 4 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday said the bench that will hear a batch of cross petitions challenging the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment on the Ayodhya title suit will decide the future course of the hearing. | 04-Jan-2019 |
Jagan attack case handed over to NIA | Vijayawada, Jan 4 (TIWN / IANS) The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Friday entrusted to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) the case relating to the knife attack on YSR Congress Party President Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy at Visakhapatnam Airport on October 25. | 04-Jan-2019 |
BJP has forced Rahul to visit Amethi mor | Lucknow, Jan 4 (TIWN / IANS) Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday took a dig at Congress President Rahul Gandhi for visiting his parliamentary constituency Amethi more often and said this was because she had done a lot of work there and in the process rattled Gandhi. | 04-Jan-2019 |
Suspension of 45 Lok Sabha MPs likely to | New Delhi, Jan 4 (TIWN / IANS) The suspension of 45 Lok Sabha members belonging to AIADMK and the TDP is likely to be revoked if they assure Speaker Sumitra Mahajan that they will not create pandemonium. | 04-Jan-2019 |
7 killed after blast in Delhi factory | New Delhi, Jan 4 (TIWN / IANS) At least seven people were killed and eight injured after an explosion in a factory here on Thursday night brought down the building, police said on Friday. | 04-Jan-2019 |
Karnataka to give funds for Bengaluru su | Bengaluru, Jan 4 (IANS) The Karnataka government on Thursday agreed to give its share of the Bengaluru suburban train project cost from the state budget for fiscal 2019-20, an official statement said. | 03-Jan-2019 |
SC to hear contempt plea against Sabarim | New Delhi, Jan 3 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on January 22 a contempt plea against the Sabarimala temple tantri for shutting the sanctum for purification after two women belonging to the previously prohibited age group entered the temple on January 2. | 03-Jan-2019 |
Take 'prompt' steps to rescue trapped mi | New Delhi, Jan 3 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday said that "prompt, immediate and effective steps" are required to augment the operations for the rescue of 15 miners trapped in flood water-hit mines in Meghalaya, and expressed dissatisfaction over the outcome of measures taken so far. | 03-Jan-2019 |
Congress cheating farmers in name of loa | Gurdaspur (Punjab), Jan 3 (TIWN / IANS) In a frontal attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Congress was cheating farmers in the country in the name of loan waivers. | 03-Jan-2019 |
No objection to simultaneous LS, Assembl | New Delhi, Jan 3 (TIWN / IANS) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said the government will have no objection if the Election Commission (EC) decides to hold Assembly polls in Jammu & Kashmir along with 2019 general elections. | 03-Jan-2019 |
CBI files case against 5 Army personnel | New Delhi, Jan 3 (TIWN / IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday said it has registered a case against five Army officials, including a Colonel, for allegedly receiving bribes worth Rs 18 lakh. | 02-Jan-2019 |
CTUs urge Mamata to take positive steps | Kolkata, Jan 3 (TIWN / IANS) The Central trade unions (CTUs) have urged West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to take "positive steps" in the proposed general strike called by them. | 02-Jan-2019 |
Entire country pointing fingers at Modi, | New Delhi, Jan 2 (TIWN / IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday stepped up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Rafale deal, saying the entire country was "pointing fingers" at him and demanded that a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) must probe the deal to bring out the truth. | 02-Jan-2019 |
Drama in Lok Sabha as Rahul threatens to | New Delh, Jan 2 (TIWN / IANS) High drama was witnessed in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday when Congress President Rahul Gandhi sought to play a purported recording of a conversation of a Goa Minister on the Rafale deal as he accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of bypassing procedures to award the contract to a private entity after agreeing to a three-time hike in the price per aircraft and reducing the number of planes to be bought. | 02-Jan-2019 |
CPI-M deplores Modi over Ram temple | New Delhi, Jan 2 (TIWN / IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Wednesday described as "deplorable" Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks that the government will be ready to make efforts to build a Ram temple in Ayodhya after the judicial process. | 02-Jan-2019 |
The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) B | New Delhi, Jan 2 (TIWN / IANS) The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2018 that amends the Aadhaar Act 2016 was introduced in the Lok Sabha amid opposition by the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC). | 02-Jan-2019 |
PM to launch election campaign for 2019 | Agra, Jan 2 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch NDA's election campaign for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Uttar Pradesh's Agra on January 9, according to party sources and MP Ram Shankar Katheria. | 02-Jan-2019 |
Lakhs form 'women's wall' in Kerala | Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 1 (TIWN / IANS) A 620-km long "women's wall" that had the backing of the Kerala government was formed on Tuesday evening linking Kasargode in the north to Ayyanakali square near the Governor's residence in Thiruvananthapuram, with lakhs taking part. | 01-Jan-2019 |
509 drunk drivers fined in Delhi on New | New Delhi, Jan 1 (TIWN / IANS) Delhi Police penalised a total of 509 people on New Year's eve for drunk driving, an official said on Tuesday. | 01-Jan-2019 |
President, PM condole Kader Khan's demis | New Delhi, Jan 1 (TIWN / IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several political leaders on Tuesday condoled the death of veteran Bollywood actor-director Kader Khan. | 01-Jan-2019 |
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