Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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New Delhi, Jul 20 (DIN NEWS) He is known for his hugs, but this was one hug Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not expecting. After a no-holds barred and scathing criticism of Modi on several issues including Rafale jet deal today, Congress president Rahul Gandhi walked across the green-carpeted well of Lok Sabha to Modi and hugged him, a gesture which took the Treasury Bench members by surprise. Gandhi’s unexpected gesture, which quickly became a favoured video clip for television channels, came during a debate on no-confidence motion moved by…

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Panaji, Jul 19 (DIN NEWS) The monsoon session of the Goa Assembly began on a stormy note today with the opposition demanding a discussion on the issue of formalin being found in fish in the state, instead of the listed business. The ruckus forced Speaker Pramod Sawant to adjourn the House four times. As soon as the House assembled on the opening day, Leader of Opposition Chandrakant Kavlekar demanded that they be allowed to move an adjournment motion to take up the issue of presence of formalin in fish, as…

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New Delhi, Jul 19 (DIN NEWS) The government has put on hold recruitment for teaching positions in universities and colleges pending a decision on the special leave petition it has filed against a court order curtailing reservation for SC/ST and OBCs, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. He said the government is committed to 50 per cent reservation to SC/ST and OBCs and it “does not agree” with the Allahabad High Court ruling that had in last April struck down a circular prescribing institution-wise reservation to fill vacant faculty positions.…

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The Congress targeted the BJP regime in Rajasthan today, saying the interests of women and their safety were being “neglected” by the government led by a woman chief minister. “The BJP made many promises in the last Assembly elections, but the government did not fulfil after coming to power,” the party’s national spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi said. She attacked the state government over crime against women, including rape. “The state ranked 5th in the country in overall crime against women for the period of 2014-16, while it stands at 4th position…

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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today accused right-wing activists for death threats as also vandalising his office and demanded Prime Minister’s intervention in dealing with such anti-national elements. Raising the issue during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, Tharoor said the attacks are on people who are expressing dissent and the victims, in recent months, have included intellectuals, minorities, and various citizens of the country. “I am sorry to raise before this House the attack on my constituency office in Thiruvananthapuram and the death threats that I received from members of…

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