Day: October 22, 2019

PMC Bank scam: Ex-director’s police remand extended

Mumbai, Oct 22 : A Mumbai court on Tuesday extended till October 24 the police remand of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank’s former director Surjit Singh Arora, arrested in connection with the multi-crore scam in the bank. Arora was last week arrested by Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing […]

Shri Prahlad Singh Patel launches the E-Portal of CCRT ‘Digital Bharat Digital Sanskriti’ and CCRT YouTube Channel today in New Delhi

Open view news desk Union Minister of State for Culture & Tourism (IC), Shri Prahlad Singh Patel launched the E-Portal of CCRT ‘Digital Bharat Digital Sanskriti’ and CCRT YouTube Channel today in New Delhi. The Chairperson, CCRT Dr. Hemlata S. Mohan was also present on the occasion. Speaking on […]

Commerce and Industry Minister on a Two-Day Visit to Sweden

Open view news desk Commerce and Industry & Railways Minister, Piyush Goyal will attend the 19thSession of the Indo-Swedish Joint Commission for Economic, Industrial and Scientific Cooperation in Stockholm, Sweden on 23rd October 2019. The session will be co-chaired by Ms. Anna Hallberg, Minister of Foreign Trade, Government of […]

Shri Piyush Goyal launches Jaipur-Sikar- DEMU Passenger Service

Open view news desk Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal inaugurated 79603/04 Jaipur-Sikar-JaipurDEMU (6 days a week) Service between Jaipur and Sikar through Video-conferencing today. Member of Parliament from Sikar Shri SumedhanandaSaraswati participated in the inaugural ceremony from Ringus. This service will operate on […]

Drug companies near global settlement over opioid crisis

Three leading American drug distributors and an Israeli drugmaker blamed for a deadly US opioid epidemic settled a bellwether civil lawsuit with two Ohio counties Monday, opening the door for a broader national settlement worth billions of dollars. The $260 million deal with Ohio’s Summit and Cuyahoga counties […]

We need our own sense of history with Indian perspective and Indian values: Vice President

Open view news desk The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu called for writing the history with Indian perspective and Indian values saying that, ‘British historians never accepted 1857 as first war for Independence, and tried to portray it merely as ‘sepoy mutiny’. Elaborating further, Shri […]

Gay rights across the globe

Thirty years after the first-ever gay civil unions in Denmark, same-sex marriages are today allowed in 28 countries, but homosexuality remains illegal in some parts of the world. After the liberalisation of same sex marriage came into force in Northern Ireland on Monday, here is an overview of […]

Trudeau’s Liberals win Canada vote, will form minority govt

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party held onto power in a nail-biter of a Canadian general election on Monday, but as a weakened minority government. Television projections declared the Liberals winners or leading in 157 of the nation’s 338 electoral districts, versus 121 for his main rival Andrew […]

Japan emperor completes enthronement in ritual-bound ceremony

Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito on Tuesday completed his ascension to the ancient Chrysanthemum throne in a solemn, ritual-bound ceremony performed before hundreds of dignitaries in the Imperial Palace. “I hereby declare my enthronement at home and abroad,” Naruhito said from inside an elaborately adorned structure housing his throne, […]

Trash to treasure: Everest garbage given new lease of life

A group of tourists sip water at a five-star hotel in Kathmandu, unaware that the green glasses in their hands were once bottles discarded on Mount Everest — left by climbers eager to make their ascent. In homes across the Nepali capital upcycled items, from pots to lamps, […]

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