Category: NATIONAL NEWS

A fire broke out on the 12th floor of a posh high-rise residential building in Dadar here today morning, killing four people and injuring 16, fire officials said Dozens of people were rescued from different floors of the 17-storey Crystal Tower building near Hindmata Cinema The blaze has been brought under control and cooling operations are underway, officials said The fire brigade control room got a message at 8.32 am about the blaze on the 12th floor. The smoke from the raging fire spread rapidly, trapping the residents in the…

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New Delhi, Aug 20 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to his newly elected Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan, conveying New Delhi’s commitment to pursue “meaningful” and “constructive” engagement with Islamabad and emphasising the need to work for a terror-free South Asia, official sources said today. In a letter to Khan on August 18, the day he was sworn in as Pakistan’s 22nd prime minister, Modi also expressed India’s commitment to building good neighbourly relations between the two countries while congratulating him, the sources said. In Islamabad, Pakistan Foreign…

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New Delhi, Aug 19 (DIN NEWS) The rainfall intensity over Kerala has decreased over the past two days, the meteorology department said today, adding that there is no alert of heavy precipitation for the next four days in the state. India Meteorological Department’s Additional Director General Mritunjay Mohapatra said, yesterday the state recorded 9 cm of rainfall. On August 16 and 17, the state recorded 19 cm and 11 cm of rainfall respectively, he said. “Over the past three days, we have seen a gradual decrease in rainfall in the…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today an immediate financial assistance of Rs 500 crore to the rain-battered Kerala, after reviewing the flood situation in the state.Modi also announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh per person to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to those seriously injured from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF), a Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) statement said”The prime minister announced a financial assistance of Rs 500 crore to the state. This is in addition to Rs 100 crore announced by Home…

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New Delhi, Aug 17 (DIN NEWS) President Ram Nath Kovind today described Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s demise a personal loss for him and said it was the former prime minister’s stature and dignity that attracted him to public life by giving up his legal profession. Conveying his condolences on the passing away of Vajpayee, the president in his letter to the former prime minister’s adopted daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya said that working with him was an unforgettable experience. “Atalji’s death is of course a personal loss for you and others at…

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New Delhi, Aug 16 (DIN NEWS) Statesman and pragmatist, orator and poet, a man of peace and conviction. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a towering nationalist who softened the often sharp edge of his party’s politics with a gentle sophistry of words, earning him the sobriquet “ajaat shatru” or the man with no enemies. The first prime minister from a non-Congress party to complete a full term in office, Vajpayee began shakily — his first stint as prime minister in 1996 lasted only 13 days when his unlikely coalition government failed…

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New Delhi, Aug 15 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today announced that women officers recruited under the short service commission in the armed forces will have the option of taking up permanent commission, which he described as a “gift” to the “brave daughters”. Modi made the policy announcement while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the occasion of 72nd Independence Day. He, however, did not give any indication whether permanent commissioning of women will pave the way for their entry into the combat positions…

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New Delhi, Aug 14 (DIN NEWS) President Ram Nath Kovind asserted on Tuesday that contentious issues and extraneous debates should not be allowed to distract us at a “pivotal moment” when the country is at the cusp of achieving many long-awaited goals In his televised address to the nation on the eve of India’s 72nd Independence Day, Kovind recalled Mahatma Gandhi’s “most noble mantra” on the power of ‘ahinsa'(non-violence) being far greater than the power of ‘hinsa’ (violence), remarks that come against the backdrop of incidents of lynching and mob…

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The body of one more fisherman who went missing when a vessel hit their fishing boat in the high seas nearly a week ago was recovered last evening, a Defence spokesman said here today.With this the number of fishermen who died in the incident has risen to five.A total of nine fishermen had gone missing after the incident on August 7. The body of another missing fisherman was recovered on August 11.The spokesman said the body recovered yesterday was brought to the Munambam harbour near here. Relatives of the fisherman…

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Srinagar, Aug 12 (DIN NEWS) A policeman was killed and five other security forces personnel were injured during an encounter with militants in the Batamaloo area here following which two ultras were arrested today, police said. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation at Diyarwani in Batamaloo area of the city in the pre-dawn hours this morning following specific information about the presence of militants in the area, Additional Director General of Police (Security and Law and Order) Munir Khan told reporters. He said while the house, where the…

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