Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Gurgaon (Hry), Nov 19 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the Kundli-Manesar section of the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) western peripheral expressway. He also inaugurated the 3.2 km-long Ballabhgarh-Mujesar Metro rail link, which would facilitate travel for people of Delhi and Faridabad, and laid the foundation stone of the Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, which will come up at Dudhola in Palwal district. The inaugurations and foundation laying stone ceremonies were done through remote from Sultanpur village of this district. The prime minister, on his arrival at Sultanpur village in…

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New Delhi, Nov 19 (DIN NEWS) Ahead of the crucial RBI Board meeting, Congress President Rahul Gandhi Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of destroying institutions and hoped Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel has a “spine” and will show the prime minister “his place”. Taking to Twitter, Gandhi accused Modi and his “coterie of cronies” of destroying institutions. Mr Modi and his coterie of cronies, continue to destroy every institution they can get their hands on.Today, through his puppets at the RBI Board Meet he will attempt to destroy the…

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New Delhi, Nov 16 (DIN NEWS) The BJP claimed Friday opposition parties like the Congress, TDP and TMC had formed a “grand alliance of most corrupt parties” to protect their interests after the Andhra Pradesh government withdrew the consent given to the CBI to exercise its power in the state. BJP spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao also alleged the Chandrababu Naidu government’s decision was a “clear malafide exercise of power” to ensure that its “corruption” was not exposed. It showed that the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), which was in…

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Jammu, Nov 16 (DIN NEWS) Jammu and Kashmir is headed for President’s rule but the state assembly will not be dissolved for now, Governor Satyapal Malik said Friday. His statement comes amid speculation that efforts are being made behind the scenes to cobble together a coalition government by various parties to succeed the PDP-BJP dispensation that collapsed in June when the BJP withdrew support to the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP. However, the numbers for a government formation don’t seem to add up for now. Malik himself is convinced that a popular…

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Terming farm loan waiver and free power supply as mere “temporary and populist” steps, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu Thursday made a pitch for long-term solutions like infrastructure support and cheap credit to improve the agriculture sector.Delivering the Laxmanrao Inamdar Memorial Lecture here, Naidu also called for suitable changes in the laws governing the cooperative sector in view of changed techno-economic and business scenarios to make the cooperative institutions “viable and vibrant”.The University of Mumbai had organised the lecture to mark the birth centenary late Laxmanrao Inamdar, who was instrumental in the…

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Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot and Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot on Wednesday declared that they both will contest the December 7 assembly election, firing up the race for the chief minister’s post in the state where the party is seeking to wrest power from the BJP.Gehlot and Pilot, however, dismissed suggestions that there was any infighting among the state leaders and asserted that they will unitedly take on the BJP.The two leaders ended the speculation over whether they will contest the polls at a joint press conference here at…

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Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister and long-time BJP leader Ananth Kumar died at a private hospital here in the early hours of Monday after battling lung cancer for several months. He was 59.The Bangalore South MP, who returned home in October after undergoing treatment in the US and Britain, breathed his last around 2 am with his wife Tejaswini and two daughters by his side, B R Nagaraj, chairperson of the board of trustees of Sri Shankara Cancer Foundation, told DIN.The Union minister, who passed away from complications following cancer and…

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Nearly one lakh security personnel have been deployed in the Naxal-affected districts going to polls in the first phase in Chhattisgarh on Monday, amid the threat from Maoists who have called for a boycott of the elections.On the eve of the polls, a sub-inspector of the Border Security Force (BSF) lost his life when Naxals detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kanker district while a Maoist was gunned down in an encounter in Bijapur district.Voting will be held on Monday in 18 seats spread over eight Naxal-affected districts in…

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Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has broken all records of development during his tenure, BJP president Amit Shah claimed Saturday, and sought to know what the Congress has done for the state.Once counted among laggards, Chhattisgarh has now emerged as one of the most developed states in the country under the leadership of Singh, who became the chief minister in 2003, he said. Shah asked BJP workers to ensure Singh’s victory by at least 70,000 votes from Rajnandgaon assembly seat from where the chief minister is seeking a re-election. The…

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 In a tense showdown at Sabarimala in Kerala, about 200 frenzied devotees Tuesday tried to prevent a woman pilgrim from entering the hilltop shrine suspecting her to be of menstrual age and allegedly attacked a cameraman of a Malayalam television news channel.Ignoring prohibitory orders, devotees and right wing activists gathered in huge numbers at Sannidhanam, the shrine complex, following which a senior state RSS leader addressed them using a microphone to bring the situation under control.Though a rush of pilgrims is hardly witnessed during the annual “Sree Chitira Atta Thirunal”,…

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