Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Persons committing crimes, including sexual assault, against women should consider it as their last day on earth, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu warned today. “There is no place for such criminals. Whoever commits such crimes…it should be the last day of his life,” he said. “They should be hanged. We will deal with them sternly and book them under Nirbhaya Act and POCSO Act. It should serve as a strong warning to others,” he said. Talking to reporters after visiting the nine-year-old sexual assault victim at the Government…

Claiming that the Congress and the JD(S) have entered into a “secret” pact for the Karnataka Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday H D Deve Gowda’s party was “protecting” the Congress. Addressing an election rally here, Modi alleged that the Congress, for years, spoke about poverty eradication only to garner votes, while neglecting farmers and the poor “Poll surveys, political pundits…everyone is saying the JD(S) cannot defeat Congress. They cannot form government. If anyone can change the government in Karnataka, it is the BJP “If anyone is…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said India is now moving forward from women development to women-led development, and “women first” was the mantra of his government and the party. Addressing Karnataka BJP Mahila Morcha Karyakartas via the ‘Narendra Modi App’, the prime minister asked them to win the May 12 Karnataka Assembly elections by concentrating on booths. “Today the country is moving forward from women development to women-led development,” Modi said. “When we have such a mantra for the country’s development, our party also believes in this mantra. For party…

The Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has demanded tribal status for eleven communities in the state. “The state government has been been doing everything possible to secure Constitutional recognition of the 11 left out communities as Scheduled Tribes in view of their historical background,” Chamling said yesterday at a summit for Tribal Status, 2018 organised by the Eleven Indigenous Ethnic Communities of Sikkim (EIECOS) and others. He has been corresponding with the president, prime minister and other union ministers to press for inclusion of Gurung, Mangar, Rai, Sunwar, Mukhia,…

Congress President Rahul Gandhi today gave an ‘F’ grade report card to the Modi government on the “subject” of agriculture in poll-bound Karnataka. There has been no contribution from the Centre to the Congress-led government’s Rs 8,500 crore contribution in farm loan waivers, Gandhi said on Twitter. Farmers have also suffered due to the prime minister’s crop insurance scheme in which insurance companies have made huge profits, Gandhi added. He also said that there has been no MSP (minimum support price) plus 50 per cent for farmers of Karnataka as…

A Bhiwandi court has asked Congress President Rahul Gandhi to appear before it on June 12 to record his plea in a defamation case filed against him by an RSS functionary. The court yesterday heard arguments on Gandhi’s application, seeking a detailed recording of evidence instead of a ‘summary trial’, and adjourned the matter till June 12. The court said that on June 12 it would pass an order on the application and would also record the defendant’s (Rahul Gandhi) plea, and asked him to remain present on that day.…

The Lucknow division of the Northern Railways has decided to install gates at 121 unmanned level crossings in view of the Kushinagar incident in which 13 children were killed at an unmanned crossing. “The work to close these 121 unmanned crossings will start from June and will end by September. Though the Railway ministry had decided to close all unmanned crossings by 2020, the work will now be completed by September this year,” NR, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Satish Kumar said. He said unmanned crossings in Kanpur, Lucknow-Varansai and Lucknow-Prayag…

A Mumbai court today convicted gangster Chhota Rajan in the murder case of journalist J Dey while acquitting former journalist Jigna Vora and another accused in the case due to lack of evidence. Besides Rajan, special MCOCA court judge Sameer Adkar convicted eight others in the case. Vora and Paulson Joseph were acquitted due to lack of evidence and the prosecution’s failure to prove the case against them beyond reasonable doubt. The sentencing in the case likely later today. The prosecution in the case has demanded the maximum punishment for…