Month: February 2019

Former PM Deve Gowda backs Mamata

Bengaluru :  Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda has said the massive standoff between the Centre and the West Bengal government over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with chit fund scams, reminded him of the Emergency days. The JD(S) patriarch sympathised with […]

Centre’s crop insurance scheme aimed at taking away farmer’s money: Rahul Gandhi

Patna : Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Sunday said the Centre’s crop insurance scheme is aimed at taking away farmers income to fill up pockets of big businessmen. At his first rally in Bihar after taking over as party president, Gandhi accused the Nitish […]

China’s economy made steady progress, policies in place to deal with risks: Xi

Beijing, Feb 3: Playing down concerns over economic slowdown in China amid the intense trade war with the US, President Xi Jinping on Sunday said the world’s second largest economy has made “steady” progress as his government took new steps for reforms and opening-up of economy to avert major […]

Will return Padma Bhushan if govt doesn’t fulfil promises: Hazare

Ralegan Siddhi (Maha), Feb 3: Social activist Anna Hazare, whose indefinite hunger strike entered the fifth day on Sunday, warned that if the Narendra Modi government did not fulfil its promises, he would return his Padma Bhushan. Earlier in the day, Bharatiya Janata Party ally Shiv Sena came out […]

Modi-Shah trying to organise coup in Bengal: Mamata

Kolkata, Feb 3: Launching a scathing attack on the Centre after a CBI team made an unsuccessfully bid to question the Kolkata Police commissioner Sunday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah of trying to organise a coup in the […]

Greenpeace India shuts two offices, cuts staff after donations row

NEW DELHI – Environmental group Greenpeace said on Saturday it had been forced to shut two of its regional offices in India and had asked many staff to leave due to a block on its bank account after accusations of illegal donations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist government […]

Trump says sending military to Venezuela ‘an option’: CBS

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said that sending the military to Venezuela was “an option” and that he had turned down President Nicolas Maduro’s request for a meeting. “Certainly, it’s something that’s on the – it’s an option,” Trump said in an interview with CBS to be […]

Three women who could be Modi’s biggest nightmare in India’s election

NEW DELHI – Three powerful women politicians, each from a very different section of Indian society, may pose a big threat to the chances of Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning a second term in a general election due by May. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, part of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty […]

Seven passengers killed when train derails in Bihar

NEW DELHI – Seven passengers were killed and several others injured when a Delhi-bound train derailed in Bihar on Sunday, railways officials said. Eleven coaches of the Seemanchal Express left the rails near Sahadai Buzurg railway station, about 50 km (30 miles) from the state capital, Patna, early […]

‘Once-in-a-century’ floods hit northeast Australia

Once-in-a-century floods have turned streets into rivers and forced thousands to abandon their homes in northeast Australia, with authorities warning of tornadoes and more rain over the next few days. Australia’s tropical north experiences heavy rains during the monsoon season at this time of the year, but the […]

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