Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Srinagar, Jul 25 (DIN NEWS) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti today said a democratic Pakistan is in the best interest of India and expressed hope that election there would lead to a stable government. “Hoping today’s election in Pakistan leads to a stable government as a democratic Pakistan is in the best interests of its neighbourhood especially India,” she said on Twitter. Voting took place today in Pakistan to choose a new government.

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Former prime minister Manmohan Singh today said he had expected his successor Narendra Modi to fulfil the UPA government’s commitment on special category status to Andhra Pradesh as it was a promise made after consulting BJP leaders. Addressing the Rajya Sabha during a debate on Andhra Pradesh, Singh said he had made a “solemn commitment” on the floor of the House as prime minister of India on February 20, 2014. The assurance on special category status to the “successor state” of Andhra Pradesh was given after discussing the issue with…

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Incidents of lynching will not stop till the time cow gets the status of “Rashtra Mata”, a BJP MLA from Telangana has said, amid the outrage over the killing of a Muslim man over suspicion of being a cow smuggler in Rajasthan’s Alwar. T Raja Singh Lodh, the BJP MLA from Goshamahal here, said in a video message on a social networking website on Sunday he does not want “khoon-kharaba” (bloodletting) on the issue, but if it has to stop, cow must be declared the Mother of the Nation. In…

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Jaipur, Jul 23 (DIN NEWS) Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot today demanded a judicial inquiry into the lynching of 28-year-old man in the state’s Alwar district, saying it was necessary to ascertain the truth. On Saturday night, Rakbar alias Akbar Khan was lynched in the district’s Ramgarh area on the suspicion of cow smuggling. He was taking the cows to his village in Haryana. The Congress leader alleged that such incidents had become common in the BJP-ruled state and said it was not the first case of lynching in Rajasthan.…

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New Delhi, Jul 23 (DIN NEWS) Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today said hatred had replaced humanity in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “brutal” ‘New India’ and cited a media report which claimed that policemen in Alwar took three hours to take a dying victim of a lynch mob to a hospital as they took a tea-break enroute. The 28-year-old victim was allegedly lynched in Rajasthan’s Alwar district Friday night by a group of people who accused him of smuggling cows. “Policemen in #Alwar took 3 hrs to get a dying Rakbar…

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Ghaziabad (UP), Jul 22 (DIN NEWS) A five-storey under-construction building collapsed here today, killing at least one person and injuring several others, officials said. The building was located in the Akash Nagar area of the Masuri police station limits. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were pressed into service soon after the incident and rescue and search operations were underway, police said. “So far, we have pulled out one dead body and rescued one person trapped in the debris,” an NDRF official told PTI. The Ghaziabad Police tweeted that…

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New Delhi, July 22 (DIN NEWS) UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today lashed out at the Narendra Modi government, saying the people of the country have to be rescued from a “dangerous regime” that is “compromising” with India’s democracy. In her address to the newly-constituted Congress Working Committee, which met for the first time under the chairmanship of party chief Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi also cautioned the people about the “reign of despair and fear” heaped upon India’s deprived and poor. She said the rhetoric of Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows…

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New Delhi, Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) The BJP today hit out at Rahul Gandhi, saying he lacked “capability” and “seriousness” to lead the Congress party and and had “only friability and flippancy”, a day after he created a flutter in the Lok Sabha by hugging Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the debate on the no-trust vote against the government. “Congress president Rahul Gandhi has showcased to the country that he is unequal to the task, he is not capable of leading the party. He lacks the gravitas, the seriousness and…

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Shahjahanpur (UP), Jul 21 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today dismissed opposition attempts at unity as an opportunity for the BJP and mocked Congress president for hugging him in Parliament, virtually calling it clingy behaviour. At a farmer’s rally, on his third visit to politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, Modi questioned the motive behind the no-confidence motion moved by the opposition in the Lok Sabha. “Hum karan poochtey rahe avishvas ka, karan nahi bata payey to gale pad gaye,” he said. Roughly translated, the phrase conveyed unwanted clingy behaviour: “We…

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New Delhi, July 20 (DIN NEWS) The Government is serious about protecting Aaadhar data and has appealed to people not to give social platforms a blanket consent to their data, Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today. Prasad also said that the government is awaiting a report by a committee of experts on data protection chaired by Justice B N Srikrishna. “Aadhaar today is backed by a proper law passed by Parliament which contains robust security measures and protects privacy…The UIDAI continues to update security architecture to ensure there…

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