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Bengal is in national centre-stage but f | New Delhi, June 19 (TIWN): Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen repeatedly said that for the development of the country, primary necessity is primary health and education services. If health is not given importance then a country or a nation cannot prosper. The backbone of a country is the development of these two. | 19-Jun-2019 |
Minister of State for Home has become a | Hyderabad, June 19 (TIWN) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday said that Union Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy has become a joke by stating that Hyderabad is a "safe zone for terrorists". | 18-Jun-2019 |
Super sleuth, who interrogated Dawood Ib | New Delhi, June 19 (TIWN) The super sleuth who interrogated India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim has finally penned a book revealing the don was an ordinary looking coward person, who confessed that he was involved in (organised) crime. | 18-Jun-2019 |
Ayodhya terror attack conspirators get l | Prayagraj, June 18 (TIWN) Fourteen years after a terror attack on Ayodhya by Jaish-e-Mohammad operatives, a special court here on Tuesday convicted four of the accused in the conspiracy behind the attack and sentenced them to life imprisonment. | 18-Jun-2019 |
Sonia takes oath in Lok Sabha amid BJP b | New Delhi, June 18 (TIWN) Congress leader and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday took oath as a Lok Sabha member as BJP backbenchers shouted slogans of "Jai Shri Ram" and "Bharat Mata ki Jai". | 18-Jun-2019 |
College students fall from bus roof in C | Chennai, June 18 (TIWN) A group of college students sitting on the roof of a city bus here in Tamil Nadu fell on to the road when the driver applied the brakes suddenly to avoid hitting a two-wheeler. | 18-Jun-2019 |
SC declines urgent hearing of PIL on doc | New Delhi, June 18 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined an urgent hearing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which sought safety and security of doctors, observing that the medicos have already called off their strike in West Bengal and other states. | 18-Jun-2019 |
India's population time bomb ticking: To | United Nations, June 18 (TIWN) The Earth will be home to some 9.7 billion people in 2050 and by 2100 the number will increase to 11 billion. India's population will surpass China's by 2027, and despite being one-third the size of the US will hold a population 10 times higher than America, the UN has announced. | 18-Jun-2019 |
Soldier, 2 militants killed in J&K gunfi | Srinagar, June 18 (TIWN) An Indian Army soldier and two militants were killed on Tuesday in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police sources said. | 18-Jun-2019 |
Tripura BJP supremo congratulates Nation | AGARTALA, June 17 (TIWN): Jagat Prakash Nadda (58), who has his roots in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its affiliates, was on Monday appointed BJP's Working President, while Union Home Minister Amit Shah would continue to be the party President. Tripura CM Biplab Deb has congratulated him. Deb is also the Party President of Tripura BJP. | 17-Jun-2019 |
AIIMS resident doctor manhandled, 2 deta | New Delhi, June 17 (TIWN) A resident doctor of the AIIMS Trauma Centre working at the emergency ward was allegedly manhandled by attendants of a patient, resulting in his colleagues going on a strike till Tuesday. | 17-Jun-2019 |
Protesting doctors win, Mamata agrees to | Kolkata, June 17 (TIWN) A delegation of 30 doctors will be at Nobanno to meet the West Bengal Chief Minister after protesting medicos stuck to their demand and agreed to meet Mamata Banerjee on Monday only after the official confirmation of live media coverage of the discussion. | 17-Jun-2019 |
Indian media busy in Doctors' strike : C | NEW DELHI, June 17 (TIWN): The death toll due to the fever that has gripped Muzaffarpur and the adjoining districts in Bihar has risen to 100. But main stream media's one and only focus remained Doctors' strike. | 17-Jun-2019 |
Modi, MP's take oath in 17th Lok Sabha | New Delhi, June 17 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with other MPs on Monday took oath in the 17th Lok Sabha which will see the passing of the Union Budget and some key legislations including the Triple Talaq Bill being on top of the government's agenda. | 17-Jun-2019 |
Tripura CM urges new waterways with Bang | Agartala, June 16 (TIWN) Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has requested the Centre to create new waterways between the state and Bangladesh to boost trade and tourism in the northeastern region, an official said on Sunday. | 16-Jun-2019 |
Congress 'lauds' Goa CM for not falling | Panaji, June 16 (TIWN) In a sarcastic tweet, Goa Congress spokesperson Trajano D'Mello on Sunday backed Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for not falling to "blackmail" from his cabinet colleagues over the allotment of portfolios in the recent round of allocation of ministries. | 16-Jun-2019 |
Rain in Delhi brings respite from intens | New Delhi, June 16 (TIWN) Light rainfall on Sunday brought respite from the intense heat in the national capital, with the minimum temperature recorded at 28.2 degrees Celsius, the season's average. | 16-Jun-2019 |
Ex-Leader of Opposition Vikhe-Patil join | Mumbai, June 16 (TIWN) Former Congressman and Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil on Sunday joined the cabinet of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. | 16-Jun-2019 |
Patnaik seeks Rs 5,228 cr to deal with c | New Delhi, June 16 (TIWN) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday proposed that natural calamities should be a criteria for according Special Category Status to states, while asking for Rs 5,228 crore aid in wake of the huge devastation caused by cyclone Fani to public infrastructure, property and livelihoods of the people in the state. | 15-Jun-2019 |
Centre seeks report from West Bengal on | New Delhi, June 15 (TIWN) The Centre on Saturday sought a report from the West Bengal government on the measures it took to contain political violence in the state and the steps it took to bring the culprits to book. | 15-Jun-2019 |
Striking doctors reject Mamata's call fo | Kolkata, June 15 (TIWN) Striking junior doctors in West Bengal on Saturday once again turned down Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's proposal for talks at the state secretariat - Nabanna, and stuck to their stand that she would have to come down to NRS Medical College and Hospital to listen to their grievances. | 15-Jun-2019 |
Mamata, KCR and Amarinder to skip Niti A | New Delhi, June 15 (TIWN) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her counterparts from Telangana K. Chandrashekhar Rao and Punjab Amarinder Singh will not attend the first meeting of the Niti Aayog governing council, to be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Banerjee and Rao had also skipped the MOdi's swearing-ceremony on May 23. | 15-Jun-2019 |
Rail ticket scam: After nabbing touts, n | New Delhi, June 15 (TIWN) After launching its biggest crackdown on railway ticket agents and touts, the Special Intelligence Branch of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) is now probing the role of insiders involved in the racket which runs into several crores. | 15-Jun-2019 |
Muslim students bag 80% of government sc | New Delhi, June 15 (TIWN) Students from the Muslim community received about 80 per cent of total scholarships offered under 20 Central government schemes in 2018-19, official data shows. | 15-Jun-2019 |
Assam CM meets Shah and Rajnath, discuss | New Delhi, June 14 (TIWN) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Friday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and discussed various issues of his state with them. | 14-Jun-2019 |
UP stares at a drought-like situation | Lucknow, June 14 (TIWN) Uttar Pradesh is staring at a drought-like situation with a deficient pre-monsoon rainfall this year. | 14-Jun-2019 |
Will start movement for return of ballot | Kanchrapara (West Bengal) June 14 (TIWN) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday intensified her demand for the return of the ballot paper system in polling and said her party will start a movement with this demand on the July 21 Martyr's Day Rally. | 14-Jun-2019 |
Patients' kin implore as Bengal doctor's | Kolkata, June 14 (TIWN) Health services in West Bengal's state-run hospitals on Friday remained disrupted as protesting doctors continued their strike despite repeated requests by patients' families to start treatment. | 14-Jun-2019 |
Doctors across India on day-long strike | New Delhi, June 14 (TIWN) The doctors' strike that started in Kolkata earlier this week has now spread across India with the doctors' association of AIIMS showing full support to their West Bengal colleagues. | 14-Jun-2019 |
Anupam arrested in Delhi, to be brought | AGARTALA, June 14 (TIWN): BJP former IT cell head of Tripura and former local TV channel reporter in "Headlines Tripura" was arrested at Delhi for spreading news, contents on CM’s family issue on April 2018. He also shared various news which claimed Chief Minister is facing a divorce case filed by his wife. The arrest took place after TV channel journalist Saikat Talapatra was arrested and got bail from the court. | 13-Jun-2019 |
Mamata urges senior doctors to take care | Kolkata, June 13 (TIWN / IANS) Amid the ongoing impasse in the West Bengal hospitals over junior doctors' strike, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday issued a letter to the senior doctors in the state, appealing to them to take care of all patients. | 13-Jun-2019 |
No survivor in An-32 crash, says IAF | New Delhi, June 13 (TIWN) The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Thursday said all the 13 occupants of An-32 aircraft that crashed in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3 were dead. | 13-Jun-2019 |
Striking doctors meet West Bengal Govern | Kolkata, June 13 (TIWN) A seven-member delegation of junior doctors led by the West Bengal unit of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Thursday met West Bengal Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi to apprise him of the prevailing unrest in various medical colleges in the state and requested his intervention in the matter. | 13-Jun-2019 |
Mamata gives 4-hour ultimatum to doctors | Kolkata, June 13 (TIWN) Reprimanding the striking state hospital doctors, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday gave them a four-hour ultimatum to withdraw their strike and warned of "strong action' if they do not resume work within the deadline. | 13-Jun-2019 |
Congress workers want Priyanka as UP CM | Rae Bareli, June 13 (TIWN) Congress workers from Uttar Pradesh are now demanding that the party should project Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the partys chief ministerial candidate for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. | 13-Jun-2019 |
Cyclone Vayu won't make landfall in Guja | Ahmedabad, June 13 (IANS) Cyclone Vayu will not make landfall on the Gujarat coast on Thursday as it was expected, and will pass by the Saurashtra region later in the day, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. | 13-Jun-2019 |
UP Bar Council chief shot dead in Agra c | Agra, June 12 (TIWN) The first woman President of the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council, Darwesh Yadav, was shot dead in Agra Civil courts on Wednesday allegedly by her own colleague Manish Sharma, police said. | 12-Jun-2019 |
Congress Core Committee dissolved: Surje | New Delhi, June 12 (TIWN) The Congress on Wednesday dissolved the party's Core Committee after a meeting to discuss the strategy for upcoming Parliament session, party spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said. | 12-Jun-2019 |
India snubs Pakistan: PM's plane not to | New Delhi, June 12 (TIWN) In a snub to Islamabad, India on Wednesday made it clear that Prime Minister Narendra Modis special plane will bypass Pakistan en route to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan where he is going to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit on Thursday. | 12-Jun-2019 |
Didi-BJP face-off: Water canons greet sa | Kolkata, June 12 (TIWN) Hundreds of BJP activists on Wednesday marched towards Lalbazar, the Kolkata Police headquarters, only to be stunted midway by the police force who fired water cannons and lobbed tear gas shells to disperse the mob. | 12-Jun-2019 |
Locked up, Stripped, Urinated in Mouth b | Shamli (U.P.): A television journalist, who was covering a train derailment story, was thrashed by GRP Personnel in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night. After the journalist was thrashed, he was later allegedly dragged to GRP police station in Shamli. | 12-Jun-2019 |
Karnad fought for freedom of expression: | New Delhi, June 11 (TIWN) UPA Chairperson and Congress Parliamentary Party leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday condoled the death of Jnanpith winner and multilingual scholar-actor Girish Karnad and said he was a man of the utmost integrity who fought for freedom of expression. | 11-Jun-2019 |
Mamata unveils Vidyasagar bust in Kolkat | Kolkata, June 11 (TIWN) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday unveiled a bust of Bengali polymath Iswarchandra Vidyasagar at Kolkata's Hare School, 28 days after another bust of the 19th century reformer was vandalised at a city college during BJP President Amit Shah's road show. | 11-Jun-2019 |
Wreckage of missing An-32 aircraft spott | Itanagar, June 11 (TIWN) The Indian Air Force (IAF) said on Tuesday that it had spotted the wreckage of the AN-32 aircraft which went missing with 13 people onboard in Arunachal Pradesh on June 3. | 11-Jun-2019 |
SC orders release of journalist Prashant | New Delhi, June 11 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered immediate release of journalist Prashant Kanojia, arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police for publishing an "objectionable" tweet against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on bail. | 11-Jun-2019 |
To catch erring officials in the act, Yo | New Delhi, June 11 (TIWN) Amid a sharp spike in crime and worsening law and order situation across Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is set to launch a whirlwind "feedback tour" of the state, starting June 16, state government sources said. | 11-Jun-2019 |
Kashmir Valley relieved after Kathua ver | Srinagar, June 10 (TIWN) The verdict of a Special Court in Pathankot on the rape and murder of a eight-year-old girl last year in Kathua convicting six of the seven accused on Monday was received with relief and satisfaction in the Kashmir Valley. | 10-Jun-2019 |
Governor meets Modi, Shah amid Bengal vi | New Delhi, June 10 (TIWN) Amid continuing violence in West Bengal following the Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi on Monday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah and apprised them of the situation in the state. | 10-Jun-2019 |
Priyanka, Scindia to hold poll result re | New Delhi, June 10 (TIWN) Congress general secretaries Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Jyotiraditya Scindia will meet party leaders on Tuesday to discuss the party's rout in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. | 10-Jun-2019 |
Law and order under control in Bengal: M | Kolkata, June 10 (TIWN) Iterating that the law and order situation was "under control", West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government has told the centre that "firm and appropriate actions" were initiated in case of a few "stray post-poll clashes" in the state. | 10-Jun-2019 |