Month: March 2019

Vice President calls for faster and more inclusive growth;

open view news desk Asks universities to align research goals to solve challenges being faced by the nation; Knowledge will soon be driver of Indian Economy and will play a vital role in improving the living conditions of the people: Vice President India must reorient its higher education […]

Teachings in human values be also form a part of medical education: Vice President

open view news desk Lopsided infrastructure development in rural areas compared to urban areas the health sector is a major area of concern; Private sector needs to supplement the efforts of government in bridging urban-rural divide; Make it mandatory for MBBS graduates to serve in rural areas for […]

ECI appoints Special Central Police Observers for States of Mizoram, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Tripura

open view news desk Election Commission of India has appointed Sh K K Sharma (IPS 1982 Retd DG Border Security Force) as Special Central Police Observer for the States of West Bengal and Jharkhand. ECI has also appointed Sh Mrinal Kanti Das (IPS 1977 Retd DGP Manipur) as […]

Back in Israel, PM consults with military on Gaza violence

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned home from Washington on Tuesday, heading straight into military consultations and vowing further action after a night of heavy fire in which Israeli aircraft bombed Gaza targets and Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel. Netanyahu rushed back to Israel to […]

Pentagon authorizes USD 1 bn for Trump’s border wall

Washington, Mar 26: Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan said Monday he had authorized USD 1 billion to build part of the wall sought by President Donald Trump along the US-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to build 92 kilometers of 5.5-meter fencing, build and improve […]

Farm loan waivers kill credit culture, says Rajan

New Delhi, Mar 26: India needs to focus on resolution of farm distress rather than loan waivers which kill the credit culture, former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan said Tuesday. “First we need to worry about why people are so distressed and angry. There is a lot of agriculture distress. […]

BJP insulted Advani by dropping him, says ‘sad’ Mamata

Kolkata, Mar 26: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday described LK Advani as one of the pillars of the BJP and said leaving him out of its candidates list is an insult to the veteran leader. Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress supremo, said political parties should not ignore […]

Cong will launch ‘surgical strike’ on poverty: Rahul Gandhi

Jaipur, Mar 26: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday promised a “surgical strike” on poverty and said his party had been working on how to eradicate it for the last six months. Addressing a rally in Suratgarh a day after declaring his party would roll out a minimum income […]

Stolen Picasso unearthed by ‘Indiana Jones of art’

A Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” has struck again, finding a Picasso painting worth 25 million euros stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999. Arthur Brand said he had handed back the 1938 masterpiece entitled “Portrait of […]

No halt to Gaza flare-up despite ‘ceasefire’

Israel kept up air strikes on Gaza into Tuesday and Palestinian militants launched new rockets despite a reported ceasefire deal, raising fears of a return to open conflict in the enclave. Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas, had said on Monday evening that an Egypt-brokered ceasefire has been agreed following […]

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