Category: India News

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win 2019 Nobel Economics Prize

Stockholm, Oct 14 : Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” “The research conducted by this year’s Laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In just two decades, […]

Chidambaram produced before court in INX Media money laundering case

New Delhi, Oct 14: Former finance minister P Chidambaram was produced before a Delhi court Monday in connection with the INX Media money laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate. Chidambaram, who is in judicial custody till October 17 in the INX Media corruption case filed by the CBI, […]

Post-paid mobile phone services restored in Kashmir without internet

Srinagar, Oct 14: Mobile phones in Kashmir buzzed back to life on Monday, connecting 40 lakh post-paid subscribers to their families and friends in the country, the Valley and their neighbourhoods after 72 days but without any internet facilities. The phones started ringing from noon as promised by the […]

World faced with challenging time but India stronger now: PM

Bhandara, Oct 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said though the world was faced with a “challenging time” India is stronger to deal with the same. He also said the rural economy was not paid attention to earlier unlike his government has done and added that Rs […]

Modi, media distracting attention from core issues: Rahul

Latur, Oct 13: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the media of distracting people’s attention from core issues. Addressing an election rally at Ausa in Maharashtra’s Latur district for the upcoming state polls, Gandhi said when the youth […]

Man beaten to death by wife in outer Delhi’s Narela

New Delhi, Oct 13: A 35-year-old man was beaten to death allegedly by his wife in outer Delhi’s Narela following a quarrel over his drinking habits, police said on Sunday. Javed (35) was a drunkard and his wife Salma used to fight with him often over his drinking habits, […]

Ganja seized from Sharjah-bound air passenger in TN

Coimbatore, Oct 13: Around six kg of ganja was seized from an air passenger bound for Sharjah at the international airport here on Sunday, airport sources said. Thurakal Rashad of Mananthavady in Kozhikode in Kerala was to board a flight to Sharjah early Sunday when security personnel detected ganja, […]

World faced with challenging time but India stronger now: PM

Bhandara, Oct 13: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said though the world was faced with a “challenging time” India is stronger to deal with the same. He also said the rural economy was not paid attention to earlier unlike his government has done and added that Rs 25 […]

India to restore post-paid cellphone connections in Kashmir

NEW DELHI — Around 4 million post-paid cellphone connections will be restored in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, more than two months after New Delhi downgraded the region’s semi-autonomy and imposed a security and communications lockdown, an official said Saturday. Rohit Kansal, a government spokesman, said that internet services […]

Kashmir, A 370 India’s internal matter: Prasad

Mumbai, Oct 12: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said Jammu and Kashmir and abrogation of provisions of Article 370 is India’s internal matter. During his visit here, the Union law minister was asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping discussed the abrogation of […]

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