Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a fusillade on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government on Sunday, questioning why the country’s “chowkidar” (gatekeeper) was silent on issues of graft and weakening of institutions Addressing his party’s ‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally, Gandhi said the prime minister also did not speak on the case of judge BH Loya and agrarian distress “Modi ji did not speak a single word on Doklam during his visit to China. What kind of prime minister is he?” asked Gandhi at the rally held at Ramilia Maidan in…

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address a public rally at the Ramlila Ground in Delhi on April 29, the party’s Delhi unit chief Ajay Maken said today. Mr Maken said that the ‘Jan Aakrosh Rally’ – Mr Gandhi’s first in the national capital since assuming the top party post, will be “historic”. The Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee or DPCC chief in a statement said that 40,000 forms for identity cards from party workers have been received, while around one and a half lakh to two lakh Congress workers are expected…

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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have decided to issue strategic guidance to their respective militaries to strengthen communication and to build trust and understanding, a top Indian diplomat said today. Briefing reporters at the end of the two-day informal summit between the two leaders in the central Chinese city, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said the two leaders underscored that it is important to maintain peace and tranquillity in all areas of the India-China border region. “And to this end, the two leaders decided that they would issue strategic…

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Police investigating the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua say that Sanji Ram, one of the main accused, has told them during interrogation that he learnt about the rape four days after her abduction, and decided to have her killed because his son was also involved in the sexual assault. The investigators say the girl, who was kidnapped on January 10, was first raped the same day by Ram’s nephew, a juvenile, and was killed on January 14. Her body was found on January 17 in a…

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The strike called by the resident doctors of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), after one of their colleagues was assaulted by a senior doctor partially affected healthcare services at the premier institute today. Emergency and ICU services remained operational, but all routine surgeries have been cancelled, out-patient clinics being run in a restricted manner and all academic activity and exams postponed indefinitely, a senior officer of the administration said. The hospital administration has put in place a contingency plan for patient care services, as a part of…

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Coached at the Army initiated ‘Samba Super 40 project’, Roshni Devi, daughter of a martyred soldier is hopeful of cracking upcoming Services Selection Board (SSB) examination to become commissioned officer in armed forces. Devi is among seven students preparing for upcoming Services Selection Board (SSB) examination after clearing CDS and AFCAT examinations. They thank the Army which provided them necessary infrastructure and coaching to help them chase their dream to serve the nation. The students, who underwent extensive coaching over the past six months, are ecstatic over their achievement of…

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Railway Minister Piyush Goyal today ordered an inquiry into the Kushinagar train-school van accident and announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh for the kin of the deceased. The minister also said that the Railways will provide an ex gratia amount of Rs 1 lakh for those with serious injuries and Rs 50,000 for those simple injuries. Thirteen children were killed and eight others injured when a train rammed into their school van at an unmanned railway crossing in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar area, around 50 km from Gorakhpur, this morning.…

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Woman and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi today proposed amendment of an existing “scheme” for boys, who have been raped or sexually exploited, to be compensated on the lines of a similar law for girls.   She also announced a study on male survivors of child sexual abuse — a first-of-its-kind study exclusively for males. “Another much neglected sphere of child sexual abuse is male survivors. Child sexual abuse (CSA) is gender neutral. Boys who are sexually abused as children spend a lifetime of silence because of the stigma and…

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A Jodhpur court today held self-styled godman Asaram guilty of raping a teenage girl in his ashram five years ago, the second case of a powerful spiritual leader being convicted of a sexual offence in less than a year after Gurmeet Ram Rahim last August Special judge Madhusudan Sharma’s verdict, which comes as the debate over sexual violence, particularly the rape of minors, intensifies across the country, was read out in the Jodhpur Central Jail where 77-year-old Asaram has been kept for over four years The special court for SC/ST…

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In a statement which might not go down well with his party, former Union minister Salman Khurshid has said there are Muslims’ blood stains on the Congress hands. Khurshid made the remarks in response to a question by an Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student at a programme as to how the Congress would wash off the blood stains of Muslims from its hands. “It is a political question. There is blood on our hands. I am also a part of the Congress so let me say it, we have blood…

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