Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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New Delhi, May 29 (DIN NEWS) The southwest monsoon today hit Kerala, three days before its scheduled arrival, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The conditions are favourable for further advance of the monsoon into some parts of central Arabian Sea, remaining parts of Kerala, parts of coastal and south interior Karnataka, parts of east-central and northeast Bay of Bengal, and some parts of northeastern states during the next 48 hours, it said. The onset of monsoon over the southern state of Kerala marks the commencement of the four-month long rainy…

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Mumbai, May 29 (DIN NEWS) The BJP and the Shiv Sena may have some differences, but they can’t do without each other, Union minister Nitin Gadkari today suggested and wanted the alliance of the two parties to continue. Against the backdrop of acrimony between the two parties during the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll campaign, Gadkari maintained the saffron alliance does not have any ideological differences, adding there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics. “It is an alliance done by (Sena supremo) late Bal Thackeray and (late BJP leader) Pramod…

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Kolkata, May 28 (DIN NEWS) The two-day nationwide bank strike called by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) on May 30 and 31 to press for higher wage revision is likely to hit banking operations in West Bengal. The Indian Banks Association (IBA) has proposed a two per cent revision in wages for employees of public sector banks, which the unions had refused to accept. West Bengal convenor of UFBU (the umbrella unit of seven banking trade unions) Siddhartha Khan said that in the last wage revision in 2012, employees…

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Bengaluru, May 28 (DIN NEWS) Karnataka BJP leaders flayed Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy’s remark that he was at the “mercy” of Congress and not the people of state, syingthat he was “deriding his own people” and doubted his credentials to serve them. Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda took to twitter asking Kumaraswamy if he would compromise the interests of Kannadigas just to retain power. “Sri @hd_kumaraswamy Honble @CMofKarnataka says he is indebted to @INCIndia not to 6.0 crore Kannadigas. Sir I would like to ask u 1) will u…

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New Delhi, May 27 (DIN NEWS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi today appointed former Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy as AICC General Secretary, in-charge of Andhra Pradesh with immediate effect, replacing Digvijaya Singh. Party spokesperson Gaurav Gogoi has also been appointed as the party’s in-charge of West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar Islands, replacing C P Joshi. Gogoi is son of fomer Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi. The party appreciates the hard work and contribution of Shri Digvijaya Singh, who will be stepping down from his responsibility as AICC General Secretary…

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