Category: NATIONAL NEWS

BJP president Amit Shah Friday called illegal migrants a vote bank of the SP and the BSP and also targeted the opposition over the issues of triple talaq and the Ayodhya dispute. He said from Kashmir to Kanyakumari , every intruder will be sent home if the BJP returns to power.Shah said the party remained committed to the construction of the Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, and challenged the opposition parties to spell out their its own stands on the issue.He was addressing booth-level party workers, in…

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Robert Vadra, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law, was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for the second day on Thursday in connection with a probe into allegations that he laundered money to purchase illegal foreign assetsVadra, who was grilled for five-and-a half hours for the first time in the case on Wednesday, arrived at the ED office in Jamnagar House in central Delhi at about 11.25 am, about an hour after his team of lawyers.  After two hours of questioning, he left for lunch and returned about an hour later to…

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 The Supreme Court’s direction that no coercive steps, including arrest of Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar, will take place during the course of investigation is “our moral victory”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said TuesdayThe Supreme Court Tuesday directed Kumar to make himself available before the CBI and “faithfully” cooperate with the agency in investigation of cases arising out of the Saradha chit fund scam probeThe court also said no coercive steps, including the arrest of the Kolkata Police chief, will take place during the course of investigation Banerjee…

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 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday accused the Narendra Modi government of having snatched farmers’ sleep and while referring to the sops announced in the interim Budget on Friday claimed that the peasants were being cheated before the general elections.Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress chief, said if the government at the Centre changes following the Lok Sabha elections, farmers’ interests will be given priority.The chief minister is on a dharna since Sunday night over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police commissioner in connection with chit fund scams.From…

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 Accusing Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge of dissenting excessively, Union minister Arun Jaitley Sunday said he has made the appointment of CBI director look like a political battle which was never envisaged.Kharge on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving his dissent on the appointment of new CBI Director Rishi Kumar Shukla, alleging that the officer did not have experience in handling anti-corruption cases and the criterion for selection was diluted in violation of law and Supreme Court judgements.  In a blog, Jaitley said the leader of the largest party…

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Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy Saturday termed the union budget 2019-20 as “poll-oriented” and a “gimmick”.Talking to reporters here, he said, “an interim budget has been presented by an interim Finance Minister (Piyush Goyal) and all the sops announced in the budget are poll oriented and a gimmick.”As the Lok Sabha elections are round the corner, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Finance Minister have come out with subsidies for ryots, he added.Claiming that it was a clear attempt to woo farmers months ahead of the general polls, the Chief…

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Nearly 4.2 million people around the world die every year within 30 days after surgery, more than than those who die from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined, according to a study.The analysis, published in a research letter to The Lancet journal, found that half of the post-operative deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is also a significant unmet need for surgery in LMICs and researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK believe that if operations were provided for all patients who need them the number…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday urged all lawmakers to utilise the Budget Session for having debates with an open mind and said resentment is generated in society against those who do not take interest in discussions in Parliament.Speaking outside Parliament before the start of the session, the prime minister said there is an awareness among the people in the country and all citizens watch proceedings closely.”All small incidents reach the common man…due to this, those who do not have interest in discussions, resentment is generated against them,” Modi said. The prime…

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 The AAP government told the Delhi High Court Tuesday that the South Delhi Municipal Corporation was shifting the responsibility of trapping and translocating monkeys from the city.The Chief Wildlife Warden (CWW) of Delhi government said the civic agency cannot abdicate its responsibility on the pretext of a letter which is not valid in respect of trapping the monkeys from habitation areas.The CWW’s submission came in an affidavit filed before a bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao which listed the matter for further hearing on March…

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Virtually sounding the Lok Sabha poll bugle in Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday hit out at critics of the 10 per cent quota for the economically weaker sections. A few in the state were creating an “atmosphere of suspicion and mistrust” for ‘selfish’ interests, he said addressing a well-attended BJP rally here. He took a swipe at the proposed grand alliance of opposition parties, saying they had set aside their ‘differences’ to “remove this watchman” in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections. The government was taking effective steps to rid…

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