Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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New Delhi, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) The BJP today described Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s tweet that he stands with the last person in line as a “confession” of his reported remarks that his party is for Muslims. BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told reporters that Gandhi has not denied the comments, seized by the saffron party to accuse him of Muslim appeasement, and claimed that the Congress leader is in competition with AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi to “usurp” the legacy of Pakistan founder M A Jinnah. “He (Gandhi) has still not…

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New Delhi, Jul 17 (DIN NEWS) Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today said he stands with the persecuted and seeks to erase “hatred and fear”, breaking his silence on the controversy following a reported remark on the Congress being a “party for Muslims”. The Congress has dismissed the report in an Urdu daily as a “rumour” and asserted that it was a party of 132 crore Indians. “I stand with the last person in the line. The exploited, marginalised and the persecuted. Their religion, caste or beliefs matter little to me,”…

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Lucknow, Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today said that “parties are of people and not of any religion”, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress, saying it was a “party for Mulsim men only”. Addressing his party workers here, Akhilesh also said he would embark on a cycle yatra in the state once the Lok Sabha election schedules are announced. “The prime minister is saying that the Congress is a party of Muslim men. I want to say that parties are of people and…

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Midnapore (WB), Jul 16 (DIN NEWS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a no-holds-barred attack against the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, charging it with “throttling democracy” and running a “syndicate raj” without whose approval nothing moves. Addressing a ‘Kisan Kalyan’ rally here, the prime minister also reached out to farmers and said his government was working to double their incomes by 2022. The people of West Bengal will get freedom from the “misrule” of the Trinamool Congress within a few months, Modi told the gathering at the farmers’…

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Lucknow, Jul 15 (DIN NEWS) Hitting back at the BJP after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the previous governments of neglecting the people and not completing developmental projects in time, BSP chief Mayawati today said the saffron party too had contributed to the delaying of projects. “Why is the prime minister shying away from accepting this?” the former chief minister asked in a statement, hours after Modi blamed the previous governments by non-BJP parties for delay in completion of various schemes and projects. “The BJP governments too have contributed in…

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