INDIA

Hardeep Puri said this while addressing media in New Delhi on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of Urban Missions of PMAY(U), Smart Cities Mission and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation -AMRUT. Puri said, the validated demand for total houses under the scheme is one crore and so far more than ... Read More »

However, in terms of incremental performance Haryana, Rajasthan and Jharkhand are the top three states who performed well in comparison to the last health index. The report released by Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog Dr. Rajiv Kumar ranks the states and Union territories innovatively on their year-on-year incremental change in ... Read More »

He said the 2019 Lok Sabha elections have shown that the people are thinking about the betterment of the country over themselves and the spirit is commendable. Replying to debate on Motion of Thanks to the President’s address to the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament today, PM ... Read More »

Delivering the opening statement at the 41st session of the UNHuman Rights Council in Geneva, Bachelet said she is disturbed by the attacks on the Muslims and hate speech by some religious leaders following the bombings. She said statements by some religious leaders inciting violence constitute worrying early warning indicators ... Read More »

BJP today attacked Congress on Emergency terming it a dark period in Indian history. In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, India salutes all those greats who fiercely and fearlessly resisted the emergency. PM said, the country’s democratic ethos successfully prevailed over an authoritarian mindset. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, ... Read More »

K. Natarajan, the second Coast Guard officer to lead the force, would take over on June 30. He joined the force on January 18, 1984, and holds a Masters Degree in Defence and Strategic Studies from Madras University. K. Natarajan has held various important Command and Staff appointments, both afloat and ashore. The Flag Officer has commanded all ... Read More »

The report takes a comprehensive look at health in terms of health outcomes, governance and processes and impact of policy interventions.  An official release said the Round-II report focuses on measuring and highlighting the overall performance and incremental improvements in these parameters over a two-year period of 2016-17 and 2017-18 ... Read More »

During Goa’s liberation movement, Ranade was active in attacking police stations at Betim, Banastarim and other outposts.  He was arrested by Portuguese police in 1955 and was imprisoned at the Fort of Caxias near Lisbon in Portugal. He was kept in solitary confinement for six years.  Ranade was released from ... Read More »

A vacation bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice B R Gavai, however, granted liberty to the Gujarat Congress to file an election petition after the conclusion of polls to the two Rajya Sabha seats vacated by Union Ministers Amit Shah and Smriti Irani.  An election petition is a procedure ... Read More »

US President signed the order in presence of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin last night.  Donald Trump’s move to impose a fresh set of sanctions on Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a string of military commanders comes days after Tehran said it shot down an American drone in the ... Read More »

The accident occurred early morning today when a private bus coming from Ambikapur of Chhatisgarh to Garhwa in Jharkhand, turned turtle, after falling from the valley and got trapped in between. SP of Garhwa Shivani Tiwari confirmed five deaths and injury to 40 others. The injured are being treated in ... Read More »

External Affairs Minister formally joined BJP in the presence of party working president JP Nadda at a ceremony at his office in Parliament on Monday.  A career diplomat and a former foreign secretary hailed for his expertise on India-US relation was handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his government ... Read More »

The Indian women eked put a hard fought win over the Asian champions at the Hiroshima Hockey Stadium. Captain Rani Rampal gave India the lead in the 3rd minute before drag-flicker Gurjit Kaur struck twice in 45th and 60th minutes to set up the win. Kanon Mori scored the lone ... Read More »

External Affairs Minister formally joined BJP in the presence of party working president JP Nadda at a ceremony at his office in Parliament on Monday.  A career diplomat and a former foreign secretary hailed for his expertise on India-US relation was handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his government ... Read More »

It is an increase of about 68 percent over last year. The surge in FDI came as Japan Tobacco Inc invested $1.47 billion in purchasing business from a Bangladeshi company. Power sector attracted the highest level of FDI worth over $1 billion. Releasing the figures compiled by United Nations Conference ... Read More »

Briefing media persons in Dhaka yesterday, Cabinet secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said that four bodies were recovered and there might be more bodies under the debris. He said that train collapsed as it was overloaded.   A four-member  enquiry team  headed by the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Railways has been set up to investigate ... Read More »

The Chariman said officials who played a key role during the time were promoted by the successive Congress governments. Taking part in a discussion on Emergency-the darkest period of Indian democracy held by Vivekananda International Foundation in New Delhi this evening, the Chairman said, the people responsible for wrecking the Constitution ... Read More »

A special investigation team has been set up to look into the death of Tabrez Ansari, who was declared “brought dead” by doctors at the Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, on Saturday. Two police personnel have been  suspended in connection with the incident. They were officers-in-charge of Kharaswan and ... Read More »

Choksi, accused of money laundering by the ED in the multi-crore Punjab National Bank scam, is presently in Antigua and has told the high court that he is unable to travel to India due to ill health. The bench on Monday directed Choksi’s advocate to submit all of his client’s ... Read More »

The bill seeks to amend the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act of 2004, extending the benefits of reservation to people living near the international border in the state. The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 was also introduced in the house. The bill proposes to allow voluntary use of ... Read More »