Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India is a stakeholder in the peace process in the Korean peninsula after he held wide-ranging deliberations with South Korean President Moon Jae-in that focused on deepening strategic cooperation between the two countries.In the talks, the two sides agreed to significantly enhance cooperation in a range of areas including defence and security, artificial intelligence, trade besides resolving to work together for regional peace and prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.The two countries inked a total of 10 agreements covering a broad spectrum of…

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Shillong, July 9 (DIN NEWS) The security situation in North East has “improved drastically” during the four years of NDA government, with insurgency related incidents coming down by 85 per cent as compared to the 90s, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today. The government is giving special attention to the internal security in the region, Singh said, addressing the 67th plenary session of the North Eastern Council (NEC) here. He stressed on the need for a forum to address inter-state and security-related issues, including boundary disputes, narcotics and arms trafficking,…

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Noida, July 9 (DIN NEWS) South Korean consumer electronics major Samsung on Monday inaugurated the world’s largest mobile phone factory here which will double its annual handset production capacity to 120 million units by 2020. The facility was inaugurated jointly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in The new plant will help the company raise its capacity in a phased manner, from 68 million units at present, to 120 million The company also launched ?Make for the World’ initiative, whereby it aims to export mobile handsets…

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Yavatmal, July 8 (DIN NEWS) In a case of suspected pesticide poisoning, probably the first in this Kharip season in east Maharashtra, two farmers were admitted to a hospital with symptoms of vomitting and loose motions in Yavatmal district. Prashant Kewade (42) and Sandeep Meshram (24) were admitted in the Yavatmal-based Government Medical College (GMC) on July 1, a GMC official said today. While Kewade, a resident of Fulai village in the district, was discharged on July 7, Meshram, who hails from Pengare village, still remains in the hospital. “Both…

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New Delhi, Jul 7 (DIN NEWS) Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar today stressed on his opposition to corruption as well as communalism, and asserted that those thinking of marginalising his party in the state would stand marginalised. Amid speculation over his future move and a strain in his ties with the BJP, Kumar, during the party’s national executive meeting, barely touched on the contentious issue of sharing of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar among NDA parties, saying the BJP is yet to make a proposal.…

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Kolkata, July 7 (DIN NEWS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that she is not averse to working with the Congress to oust the BJP government at the centre which is behaving like “a hundred Hitlers”. The TMC president, in an interview to a magazine, said she shares very good relations with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi but has never worked with Congress President Rahul Gandhi, whom she described as “much junior”. To questions about prime ministerial ambitions, Banerjee said she has “no intent”. However, she was ambivalent when…

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Jaipur, Jul 7 (DIN NEWS) Launching a scathing attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday the opposition party was now being called a ?bail gaadi’ as several of its leaders were out on bail ?Several leaders who are called stalwarts of the Congress and former ministers are out on bail these days,? Modi said at a public rally here, punning on the Hindi term for a bullock cart He said the people were well aware of the ?intentions? of the Congress party and had started calling…

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Ahmedabad, Jul 6 (DIN NEWS) After Kunwarji Bavaliya’s exit, another senior OBC leader, Vikram Madam, today said he may quit the Congress if the party’s state leadership did not address his grievances. “I will raise several issues and questions that are bothering me on the party forum and will expect answers. If I am not satisfied, I can leave the Congress,” Madam told reporters before meeting the party leaders here. The OBC leader, who represented Jamnagar in the Lok Sabha twice, is now the MLA from Khambhalia. However, he also…

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New Delhi, Jul 6 (DIN NEWS) Lt Governor Anil Baijal does not agree that control of the services department should be handed over to the Delhi government, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today, and added that it was the first time in India’s history that the Central government had openly refused to obey the apex court’s order. Addressing the media after a 25-minute meeting with Baijal, the first after his nine-day sit-in, Kejriwal said the LG had sought advice from the Ministry of Home Affairs and was told that services…

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New Delhi, July 5 (DIN NEWS) Claiming that there has been an “unprecedented political logjam” in the three years of the AAP government, Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari today urged Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to “give up” his full statehood demand and work for the people. In a letter to Kejriwal, he alleged that in the “politically motivated logjam”, the development of the city has been the biggest casualty in the last three years. Claimed two crore people were “crippled” due to “lack” of proper water and electricity supply and…

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