obEducation is the route to eradicate poverty and every child in India must be educated, BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi here Sunday. Speaking at the 9th convocation of the SRM University near here, Modi said: “This is an era of knowledge. This is the only potent route to fight poverty. We have to review […]
Following an assurance by union Minister of State for Defence Jitendra Singh, residents in old and crumbling buildings in Mumbai’s north-western suburbs see a ray of hope for their redevelopment proposals stuck due to the absence of a no-objection certificate from the defence ministry. Minister Singh Saturday assured them that a solution would soon be […]
Separatist leader Muhammad Yasin Malik was arrested here Sunday as he was taking out a protest march on the first anniversary of December 2001 Indian Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s hanging. Malik, chairman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), along with dozens of his supporters tried to take out a protest march from […]
In a morale booster for working journalists and newspaper employees, the Supreme Court Friday upheld the validity of the Majithia wage boards, observing their recommendations for wage hike are based on genuine considerations. It also junked newspaper organisations’ challenge to the constitutional validity of the working journalists and newspaper employees act. Justice G.R. Majithia was […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will Feb 11 meet farmers in Haryana’s Ganaur town of Sonipat district, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said here Friday. “Rahul Gandhi would visit Ganaur in district Sonipat Feb 11 where he would hold dialogue with different farmer organisations of the country so as to incorporate issues related to their […]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Friday pledged support to the tribal people of Jharkhand, saying he would stand with them and fight their battles with them. Gandhi pledged his support to empowering the tribal people of Jharkhand, especially women. Holding an open discussion with tribal women who had come to the capital from all over […]
The Bombay High Court Friday directed the Enforcement Directorate to provide documents to sacked IPL chief Lalit Modi based on which the central agency had issued him show cause notices in July 2011 and March 2013 for alleged foreign exchange violations in the Indian Premier League held in South Africa in 2009. The bench, comprising […]
Dismissing allegations of involvement of her Trinamool Congress in “horse-trading of MLAs (legislators)”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said she would welcome members of opposition who voted for her party in the Rajya Sabha polls. “This doesn’t happen in Bengal…Trinamool is the only party that is very transparent…we are the poorest of the […]
Delhi’s AAP government and the Congress, which props it up, Friday seemed headed for a showdown over the Jan Lokpal bill, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying the central government’s okay was not needed to get it passed in the Delhi assembly. The Congress reiterated that it would not support the bill as it was […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Friday promised an annual fare revision as well as training on how to behave with commuters to the tens of thousands of auto drivers, considered his vote bank, at a mass meeting on the outskirts of the capital. Addressing a mahasabha of thousands of auto drivers as well as of […]