Category: NATIONAL NEWS

New Delhi, June 3 ( DIN NEWS) There has been no damage to any gurdwara or other institutions belonging to the Sikh community in Meghalaya where clashes took place between a group of bus drivers and locals, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said today.   Rijiju’s comments come in the wake of the violence in Shillong on Thursday following which day curfew was imposed in 14 localities early on Friday and night curfew in the entire state capital. “Beware of rumour-mongers & troublemakers. There was no damage to any Gurdwara or…

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Jammu, Jun 3 (DIN NEWS) The latest attack on Indian forward points by Pakistani forces, in which two BSF jawans were killed today, has yet again proved that Islamabad said one thing and did another, a senior official said here. Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF), Jammu frontier, Ram Awtar also ruled out that sniping or an attack by enemy personnel wearing ‘thermal camouflage suits’ led to the two casualties on the International Border (IB) here. Both BSF personnel fell to cross-border firing from Pakistan, he said. Assistant Sub-inspector…

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New Delhi , 2 June (DIN NEWS):  Union minister Prakash Javadekar said the BJP will win majority of seats in West Bengal in the 2019 general elections. He said the BJP had emerged as the main opposition party in the state. “Politics in Bengal was lopsided. The Communist party ruled here for many years before Trinamool came to power. Even a few years back, BJP was the fourth or fifth largest party here. The biggest thing is we have successfully emerged as the main opposition here,” Mr Javadekar said. He…

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Amravati June 2 (DIN NEWS):  Accusing the BJP of trying to destabilise Andhra Pradesh using his political rivals, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah would have to pay dearly if they conspired against the state. “Try hatching grand conspiracies elsewhere. Carry out your experiments in other states. But if you poke the Telugus, we will not leave you,” he warned. Addressing a public meeting in connection with the week-long Nava Nirmana Deeksha programme, Mr Naidu alleged the BJP was trying…

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Kozhikode (Ker), Jun 1 (DIN NEWS) Several staffers, including nurses and four doctors, of a hospital in nearby Balussery have been asked to go on leave from today as a precautionary measure after the death of two people being treated for Nipah virus, officials said. The virus has so far claimed 16 lives in Kerala’s northern districts. Two people, who succumbed to the virus in the past two days, had undergone treatment at the taluk hospital before being shifted to the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital. A senior health official said the…

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Bengaluru, Jun 1 (DIN NEWS) Ten days after coming to power, the JDS-Congress ministry in Karnataka is set to be expanded on June 6, as the two parties reached a power sharing arrangement after intense haggling and announced their decision to fight the Lok Sabha polls as pre-poll allies. Capping protracted hard bargaining with Congress top central leadership stepping in, the two parties voiced their “firm resolve” to ensure that the coalition government headed by H D Kumaraswamy would complete its full five-year term. The Congress has conceded the plum Finance…

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Bhopal, May 31 (DIN NEWS) With the BJP facing reverses in bypolls to Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said one has to take two steps backward before a big leap. Asked about the BJP’s performance in the by-elections to 11 Assembly and four Lok Sabha seats in various states ahead of next year’s general polls, Singh, in a lighter vein, said, “For a massive leap, one always has to go two steps backward.” “We are going to take a massive leap,” the senior BJP leader…

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Itanagar, May 30 (DIN NEWS) A permanent high court would be set up in Arunachal Pradesh soon, Chief Minister Pema Khandu has said. A permanent bench of Gauhati High Court was established at Naharlagun and inaugurated by the then Chief Justice A S Anand of the Supreme Court in August, 2000. The chief minister made the announcement at a public meeting on the second day of his visit to Lower Dibang Valley district yesterday, an official release said. On the demand for deploying paramilitary force in Dambuk area to check intrusion…

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Mumbai, May 30 (DIN NEWS) President Ram Nath Kovind today described the armed forces as a “rare breed of human beings” and said they are a symbol of excellence and dedication for the entire country. The president was here to review the passing out parade of the 134th course of the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakwasla near Pune. “The armed forces are not merely about doing a job they are about answering a calling. And this is a calling for a rare breed of human beings,” he said during the…

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