Category: India News

Jaitley’s health deteriorates: sources

New Delhi, Aug 23: The health of former finance minister Arun Jaitley, who is admitted to AIIMS, deteriorated on Friday, hospital sources said. Uma Bharti visited the hospital to enquire about his health.  On Monday, BJP veteran L K Advani, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, UP Governor Anandiben […]

DUSU removes busts of Savarkar, others from campus

New Delhi, Aug 24: The ABVP-led Delhi University Students’ Union has removed the busts of V D Savarkar, Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose from the campus, the student outfit said in a statement on Saturday. The ABVP, however, claimed that the Delhi University has assured them that the […]

Humid morning in Delhi, light rain likely

New Delhi, Aug 24: Delhiites woke up to a humid Saturday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 28 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. Humidity was recorded at 80 per cent. The weatherman has forecast generally cloudy skies with the possibility of light rain and thundershower […]

CRPF officer kills self in Kashmir

New Delhi, Aug 24: A 33-year-old Assistant Commandant of the CRPF posted in Kashmir allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself from his personal weapon, officials said Saturday. M Arvind of the 40th battalion was found dead at his residence in Sadar area of Anantnag on Friday evening, they said. […]

Government to rollback higher surcharge on foreign portfolio investors

NEW DELHI – The Indian government announced measures on Friday to revive economic growth and markets including the withdrawal of higher taxes for foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) and said it would release funds for bank recapitalisation upfront. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters the government had decided to […]

CM announces Rs 500-cr Puri package, seeks people’s support

Bhubaneswar, Aug 23:  Amid protests over the governments eviction drive near Puris Shri Jagannath Temple, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday urged people to cooperate and make sacrifices for the upkeep and security of the 12th century shrine. Patnaik also announced a Rs 500-crore special package for developing […]

FM proposes measures to enhance fund flows for infra, housing projs

New Delhi, Aug 23: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday proposed to establish an organisation to provide credit enhancement for infrastructure and housing projects with an aim to enhance fund flows towards such projects. Announcing steps to prop up the slowing economy, the minister said that in order to […]

Fumes asphyxiate 5 men in sewer lines near New Delhi

LUCKNOW, India — Five sanitation workers were asphyxiated by fumes while connecting sewer lines with an underground drainage system on the outskirts of the Indian capital, an official said on Friday. The men were reportedly working without safety gear or gas masks, prompting an investigation, Uttar Pradesh state […]

WADA suspends India’s anti-doping lab

NEW DELHI — The World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended India’s drug-testing laboratory for six months, saying its analysis isn’t up to scratch. WADA says it found “non-conformities” during a visit to the New Delhi lab, including with isotope ratio mass spectrometry, a method used to detect banned steroids. […]

Alert in Tamil Nadu after intel of Lashkar terrorists’ intrusion

Coimbatore, Aug 23: Security has been tightened across Tamil Nadu following intelligence inputs that members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba had infiltrated into the state, police said on Friday. The reports suggested six members of the terror outfit infiltrated into the state by sea from Sri Lanka and moved to different […]

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