Tag: National

India has strongly rejected Pakistan’s references to Kashmir during the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting in Venezuela, saying the global forum can never be a platform for a “self-serving narrative” that aims to undermine the territorial integrity of one nation by another state. The NAM needs to be in the vanguard of those addressing […]

The Central government has asked the State to ensure Indian companies are not left out of the procurement of goods and services for big-ticket projects. In a memorandum sent to the State on May 22, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said the harsh eligibility criteria set by the Centre should not be used […]

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari’s absence from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) State executive meeting, which was attended by the party’s working president, J.P. Nadda, raised eyebrows. Sources close to Mr. Gadkari said he had a programme to attend in Nagpur, which could not be cancelled, and the party was informed about his inability to attend […]

Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP from Bihar’s Samastipur Ram Chandra Paswan died on Sunday afternoon following a brief illness. He was 57. Ram Chandra Paswan, the younger brother of Union minister and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan, passed away at 1.24 p.m. at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital here. He was admitted to the hospital […]

Former Lok Sabha MP and founder of Marxist Coordination Committee (MCC), A.K. Roy passed away at a hospital here on Sunday. Roy, a bachelor, was 90, party sources said. The veteran Left leader and chief patron of CITU Jharkhand State committee was admitted to the Central Hospital here on July 8 following age-related health issues. […]

Work on the portions of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) falling in Rajasthan will be expedited with the establishment of a special purpose vehicle (SPV) subsidiary company. The compensation for land acquisition for the project will be paid to farmers in two villages of Alwar district in the camps to be organised next month. […]

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday said the decision to reappoint IPS officer Harpreet Singh Sidhu as the chief of the anti-drugs Special Task Force has been taken amid reports of narcotics becoming an issue again in the State. Mr. Sidhu was the first chief of the STF set up by the ruling Congress […]

Senior Congress leader Yashomati Thakur had a heated argument with Mumbai police and doctors on Friday after she was stopped from meeting Shrimant Patil, the party’s MLA from Karnataka who has been admitted to the State-run St. George Hospital. Mr. Patil had complained of chest pain and subsequently admitted to the hospital’s VIP room on […]

Former Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit passed away at a private hospital in the Capital on Saturday. Ms. Dikshit was 81. She was admitted to Fortis Escorts Hospital this morning and passed away at 3:55 p.m., according to hospital sources. “Ms. Dikshit was brought in the morning on 20th July 2019 to Fortis Escorts […]

Nine students were killed after their car collided with a truck on the Pune-Solapur Highway here in the early hours of Saturday, police said. The accident took place around 1.30 am near Kadamwak Wasti in Pune district. “The deceased, who were in the age group of 19 to 23 years, were residents of Yavat in […]