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Woman aged about 25, Allegedly murdered by husband for failing to get MBBS seat

  Hyderabad,19 September 2017: A 25-year-old woman died in mysterious circumstances in Nagole area in Hyderabad with the police suspecting it to be a case of murder. However, family members of the woman, identified as Harika, alleged that she was burnt to death by her husband Rushi Kumar

Amit Shah Appears in Ahmedabad Court As Witness For Riot-Accused Maya Kodnani

AHMEDABAD: It looks like that BJP president Amit Shah almost saved Maya Kodnani, one of the prime accused in 2002 riots of Gujarat, as he appeared in the court today. Kodnani, who served as Gujarat’s minister for Women and Child Development till she was arrested in 2009, is one of 79 people facing t

Minimum balance: SBI to collect Rs.2000 cr as penalties on poors’ Saving Accounts

New Delhi: State Bank of India (SBI) expects to collect Rs 2,000 crore as penalty on savings bank accounts which have failed to maintain a minimum balance, a sum which may be used to partly cover the costs incurred on the linking of accounts with Aadhaar. The recent directive of the government to

10,000 toilets built in 10 days in Chhattisgarh under Swachh Bharat Mission

10,000 toilets were built in ten days in Abahanpur development block of Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district under the Swachh Bharat Mission. Union minister of information and broadcasting Smriti Irani took part in ‘Swachhta hi Sewa’ programs in Kendri (Abhanpur development block) and Mandir Hasaud (Ar

Rohingyas have links with Islamic State and ISI, court should not interfere with deportation: Centre to SC

Many Rohingya refugees have links with the global terror outfit Islamic State as well as Pakistan’s spy agency ISI and allowing them to stay in India would pose a security threat to the country, the government told the Supreme Court on Monday. The Centre also said the plan to deport Roh

Child dies after vaccination

Lucknow, 18 September 2017: A one-and-a-half month old girl child died at a Lucknow hospital on Wednesday, hours after being vaccinated against polio and other diseases, the Hindustan Times reported. The child’s family said that she had no illness when she was taken to the Veerangana Avantibai Ho

Will join BJP if asked to, won’t refrain from pointing out Modi’s flaws: Amar Singh

Indore: Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Saturday said that he was not averse to joining the BJP, but he hadn’t got any invite from the party, nor had he applied to it. “The BJP is a very big political party. I won’t say that I will not join the BJP if I get the chance, but who is gi

BJP suspends Benazir Arfan for flagging Rohangiya issue

GUWAHATI: Benazir Arfan, a woman BJP politician from Assam has been suspended for voicing support for Rohingya Muslim refugees, reported Times of India. Arfan, a civil engineer by profession and an executive member of BJP’s Mazdoor Morchaa uploaded a post on Facebook about a prayer meeting organi

Owaisi confronts PM over Rohingya issue.

New Delhi, September 15, 2017: All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the government’s plan to deport Rohingya Muslim refugees staying in India. Criticising the government over the Rohingya refugee

CCEA agreed to give Rs10,881crore dairy processing and infrastructure development fund

New Delhi, September 12: The Union Government on Tuesday approved a Dairy Processing and Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF) with an outlay of Rs 10,881 crore, during the period from 2017-18 to 2028-29 to boost the dairy sector. Source: Ani news Published by Sahifa SM

Who is forcing you to link Adhaar Card? asks Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Ravi Shankar Prasad, a lawyer, politician and the current Union Minister holding Law and Justice and Ministry of Information Technology portfolio in the Government of India, speaks about Adhaar myth busters in his recent tweets. On September 9 he made some shocking revelation about Adha

GST on petrol and diesel

14 September 2017:The Goods and Services tax (GST) was introduced in India from July 1, 2017 which subsumed all indirect taxes levied by the central and state governments. However, petroleum products such as petrol, diesel, jet fuel and natural gas were kept out of the purview of GST in order to pre

PM Modi & Shinzo Abe lay foundation stone for Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail project

India’s first bullet train dream will soon be a reality with Prime Minister Narendra Modiand his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe laying the foundation stone for the ambitious project today. Not just that, if Indian Railwayshas its way, you may get to travel on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet t

Akhilesh Yadav Defends Rahul Gandhi's 'India Being Run By Dynasties' Remark

LUCKNOW: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav today defended Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his remark that India was being run by dynasties, saying world history was replete with examples of people taking a plunge into politics due to their family background. Mr Yadav was speaking at a press conference at

Jammu Rajdhani’s guard coach derails at New Delhi Railway Station

The guard coach of the Jammu Rajdhani derailed on arrival on Thursday at the New Delhi Railway Station at 6:20 am. No casualties have been reported so far. The coach was located at the end of the train. “Last coach of Jammu Rajdhani Express which was entering at platform no 15 of New Delhi railway s

Give More Respect To Other Languages: President Ram Nath Kovind To Hindi Speakers

NEW DELHI: President Ram Nath Kovind today asked Hindi-speaking people to give more respect and space to regional languages and their speakers in a bid to make Hindi more popular across the country. Addressing a function on the occasion of 'Hindi Divas' in New Delhi, the President said Hindi cont

Bomb threat at Bombay High Court; turns out to be hoax

The Bombay High Court was briefly put on an alert Wednesday morning after the police control room here received an anonymous call of a bomb inside the court premises, which later turned out to be a hoax. The anonymous caller allegedly claimed that the bomb had been placed in room number 51 – the off

Crack down on Dera continues: IT head arrested for tampering with computers before search operations

CHANDIGARH: Police have arrested the IT head of the controversial Dera Sacha Sauda, whose chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is undergoing 20 years imprisonment in two rape cases, for allegedly tampering with computers at the sect's headquarters ahead of a search by the authorities. "Police arrested V