Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Thiruvananthapuram, Jun 15 (DIN NEWS) The daughter of a senior IPS officer of Kerala cadre has been booked under non-bailable charges for allegedly manhandling his official driver following a quarrel. Based on her counter complaint, a case was also registered against Assistant Director General of Police (ADGP) Sudesh Kumar’s driver, Gavaskar who is now undergoing treatment at the district hospital for the injury he suffered in the alleged attack yesterday, police said. The incident kicked up a row as more police personnel, deployed as camp followers for the personal service of…

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Mumbai, Jun 15 (DIN NEWS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has sought assistance from the World Bank for a Multimodal Transport Corridor as well as a Rural Livelihood Project which aims to provide sustainable livelihood enhancements in 10,000 villages in the state. Fadnavis, who is on a three-nation tour, met World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva in Washington DC, United States of America, yesterday. During the meeting with the World Bank CEO, Fadnavis sought assistance for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Multimodal Transport Corridor and the Rural Livelihood Project, a statement from the…

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New Delhi, June 14 (DIN NEWS) India today rejected a UN report alleging human rights violations in Kashmir as “fallacious, tendentious and motivated”. In a strong reaction, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the report is “overtly prejudiced” and seeks to build a “false narrative”. It violated the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, it said. In the report released today, the UN talked about alleged human rights violations in both “Indian-administered and Pakistan-administered Kashmir” and sought an international inquiry into these abuses. “India rejects the report. It is fallacious, tendentious…

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New Delhi, Jun 14 (DIN NEWS) The state of the economy was the focus of the verbal slugfest between Arun Jaitley and the Congress today with the Union minister saying that abuse is not the answer in political discourse and the opposition party accusing the government of “economic mismanagement”.The barbs flew thick and fast as Jaitley, who attacked Congress president Rahul Gandhi yesterday saying that wisdom has to be acquired through learning and cannot be inherited, telling Congress communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala that he should respond on facts. Surjewala accused the…

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Lucknow, Jun 13 (DIN NEWS) Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today slammed the BJP over reports of damage to the bungalow vacated by him in the state capital, terming it as a “conspiracy” by the saffron party. “The BJP it is rattled after repeated defeats in a series of by-elections,” the SP leader said at a hurriedly convened press conference here. “It is the BJP’s conspiracy,” he charged. His outburst came a day after UP Governor Ram Naik asked the state government to take action over the reported…

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New Delhi, Jun 13 (DIN NEWS) BJP president Amit Shah today hailed his party’s drive to enrol new members and train them, and said opposition parties are also now emulating this exercise. Addressing party functionaries after releasing training booklets to educate workers, Shah said the BJP’s ideology is aimed at changing the society and the country’s politics, sources said. The training booklets also include measures to effectively deal with media. The party had launched a membership drive after it stormed to power at the Centre in 2014 and claimed to…

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New Delhi, Jun 12 (DIN NEWS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his cabinet colleagues, who spent the night at the lieutenant governor’s office, today dug in their heels with Health Minister Satyendar Jain beginning an indefinite hunger strike to press for their demands. The AAP government’s demands include a direction to IAS officers to end their “strike”, action against those who have struck work for “four months”. It has also asked the L-G to approve the proposal for doorstep delivery of rations.Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia, Development Minister Gopal Rai…

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Srinagar, Jun 12 (DIN NEWS) Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah today said militants “will only have themselves to blame” if security forces hit them harder than before after the Centre’s peace initiative ends. On May 16, the Union government directed security forces not to launch counter-terror operations during Ramzan but said they reserve the right to retaliate if attacked.  “With the militant organisations doing their best to make sure the ceasefire is a failure they will only have themselves to blame if the security forces come back at them…

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Raipur, Jun 11 (DIN NEWS) BJP chief Amit Shah today asserted that the opposition has a key role in a democracy and said his party’s slogan of “Congress-free India” means freeing the country of that party’s “culture”. He also said his some of the remarks on Congress president Rahul Gandhi should not be taken as a personal attack as he had only replied to certain questions posed by the opposition party leader. “‘Congressmukt Bharat’ means getting rid of the ‘Congress culture’. Democracy is not possible without the opposition. It is…

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New Delhi, Jun 11 (DIN NEWS) The country has become slave to a handful of BJP-RSS leaders but the entire opposition will unite in six months to a year to make them realise that India will be run by its people and not just three persons, Congress party president Rahul Gandhi said today Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat will soon see the strength of India, Gandhi said, while addressing an Other Backward Class (OBC) convention, aimed…

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