Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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London, Jul 5 (DIN NEWS) A UK High Court judge has issued an enforcement order in favour of a consortium of 13 Indian banks, seeking to recover funds owed to them by beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya who is fighting extradition to India on fraud and money laundering charges worth nearly Rs 9,000 crore. The order grants permission to the UK High Court Enforcement Officer to enter the 62-year-old tycoon’s properties in Hertfordshire, near London. It permits the officer and his agents entry to Ladywalk and Bramble Lodge in Tewin,…

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New Delhi, Jul 4 (DIN NEWS) Hours after the Supreme Court held that the Delhi LG does not have independent decision-making powers, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today held a cabinet meeting and directed officials to expedite projects like doorstep delivery of rations and installation of CCTV cameras. Officers have been directed to work as per the Supreme Court’s orders, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said at a press conference after the cabinet meeting that lasted eight-minutes. Sisodia said with the apex court’s verdict on the power tussle between the Centre…

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Mumbai, Jul 4 (DIN NEWS) Banks’ unsecured loan book has grown four times the bank credit during the past three years, helped by a rise in discretionary spending, technology-driven disbursements and lower interest rates, says a report. Unsecured loans are the loans where individual exposures are smaller and more distributed and given without any collaterals but banks get higher margins. Typically personal loan, education loans and credit card spends fall under this category of loans. “Between fiscals 2015 and 2018, unsecured credit – comprising personal, small and medium enterprise (SME),…

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Jaipur, July 3 (DIN NEWS) Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot today held Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s policies responsible for corruption in the state and claimed that farmers are not getting domestic power connections despite depositing the security amount. He alleged that the domestic power connections of farmers are pending for more than a year. “Rajasthan has already created a record of farmer suicide due to the government’s anti-farmer policy. Now the farmers are running from pillar to post to get domestic power connection but they do not get any satisfactory…

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Mumbai, Jul 3 (DIN NEWS) An over-bridge at a railway station in Mumbai’s Andheri suburb collapsed on Tuesday during heavy rains, disrupting train services, injuring five people and putting the spotlight once again on the creaky infrastructure of this metropolis A major disaster was also averted as a packed train that was to pass Andheri station stopped a few metres from the collapsed bridge, thanks to motor man Chandrashekhar B Sawant’s quick action in stopping the train when he saw a portion of the bridge collapsing “I immediately applied emergency…

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