Category: NATIONAL NEWS

New Delhi, Jul 30 (DIN NEWS) A crucial bill seeking to provide death penalty to those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years and making the law against such sexual offences more stringent, was passed by the Lok Sabha today. The bill replaces the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21, following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of another woman at Unnao in Uttar Pradesh. Although the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill…

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Guwahati, Jul 29 (DIN NEWS) Leader of Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, today criticised the AGP, a coalition partner of the ruling BJP, for having “misguided” the people of the state by using the illegal migrants issue for achieving their political objectives for over 30 years. After the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) had formed the government in Assam in 1985 following signing of the Assam Accord, an ‘intensive revision’ of the electoral rolls of Assam was undertaken under the supervision of the Election Commission, Saikia said in a…

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Chennai, July 29 (DIN NEWS) Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today visited a private hospital here to inquire about the health condition of DMK chief M Karunanidhi. The DMK, meanwhile, released a photograph,the first after Karunanidhi’s hospitalisation early yesterday, showing Naidu standing beside the 94-year-old leader in his hospital bed. Party cadres outside the hospital were enthused by the release of the image. They said the picture did not feature any “life support system like a ventilator” and it was reassuring that their Thalaivar (leader) was recuperating well. DMK had,…

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New Delhi, Jul 28 (DIN NEWS) As many as 465 people have lost their lives due to floods and rains in five states during the current monsoon season so far. According to the Home Ministry’s National Emergency Response Centre (NERC), 138 people have died in Maharashtra, 125 in Kerala, 116 in West Bengal, 52 in Gujarat and 34 in Assam due to the floods and rains. The deluges and rains have hit 26 districts in Maharashtra, 22 in West Bengal, 21 in Assam, 14 in Kerala and 10 in Gujarat…

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Mumbai, Jul 28 (DIN NEWS) A bus, on its way to a hill station, fell into a gorge in Raigad district of Maharashtra this afternoon killing 33 passengers, senior officials said. The bus was carrying 34 staff members of an agriculture university in the Konkan region. It fell into a 500-feet deep gorge at Ambenali Ghat near Poladpur town, around 180 km from here, District Collector Vijay Suryawanshi told. Thirty-three passengers died in the accident which took place at around 12.30 pm, he said. SP Anil Paraskar said the passengers…

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New Delhi, Jul 27 (DIN NEWS) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said the agent responsible for trafficking 39 Indians to Iraq, who were abducted and later killed, was still operating his business and urged state women commissions to crackdown against such illegal agents. Swaraj had told Parliament in March that the 39 Indians, who were were abducted by the ISIS terror outfit in Mosul three years ago, were dead. While addressing a national conference on state women commissions, she urged them to launch a crackdown on the illegal network…

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Johannesburg, Jul 27 (DIN NEWS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the digital revolution has offered new opportunities to the members of the BRICS grouping and other emerging economies and it is essential to invest in artificial intelligence and big data analytics to reap the benefits. Addressing the BRICS Outreach Session here, Modi called for more investment in the digital infrastructure and skill development in the area of digitisation “Today we are once again at the historic turning point. Thanks to digital revolution, new opportunities are emerging for…

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New Delhi, Jul 26 (DIN NEWS) There were 21 incidents of damage to aircraft engines during flights in 2017 and the figure is also the highest in the last four years, according to official data. A total of 59 such incidents were reported in the last four years starting from 2014, according to the data provided by the Civil Aviation Ministry to the Lok Sabha. The number of incidents of damage to aircraft engines was 14 in 2014 and 12 each in 2015 and 2016. Last year, the count rose…

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New Delhi, Jul 25 (DIN NEWS) The opposition to the appointment of a former Supreme Court judge who was part of a bench that had “diluted” a law on atrocities against SCs STs as National Green Tribunal chairman, today echoed in Parliament with the Congress saying it indicated the BJP-led government’s support to his judgement. The leader of Congress Mallikarjun Kharge and his party colleague K Suresh raised the issue in Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour, with the latter alleging that Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel was close to a…

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Mumbai, Jul 25 (DIN NEWS) Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray claimed today that the Centre splurged over Rs 4,000 crore only on advertisements of its schemes, and said the government does not have a right over taxpayers’ money. He also favoured simultaneous elections at the Centre and in states but said “one should not think that the whole country will be fooled in one go”. Unemployment would be a big issue in the upcoming elections in the country, the Sena chief said. He also apprehended that the BJP would again…

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