Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said said the government would be able to instill faith among the young only by competing with China in creating jobs, and asserted the issue would be the central theme for India in the coming years. China would be India’s competitor in the sector for the next 30 years, Gandhi said. “The only way for the government to instill faith in it among youngsters is to create jobs by competing with China, which will be India’s competitor for the next 30 years,” he said, adding…

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Dubbing the Union government as “anti-Dalit,” the Congress on Sunday said its criticism by BJP’s Dalits MPs has exposed it and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his “silence” and respond to their concerns Quoting from the statements of five BJP Dalit MPs, Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill claimed that they proved Modi was working to make India ‘Dalit-mukt.’ The condition of scheduled castes can be understood when even the ruling party’s MPs were underlining their fear and concerns, he told reporters Taking a dig at Modi’s 2014 poll campaign…

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Dalit leader and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mewani has been booked for allegedly making provocative remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event in Chitradurga, about 200 kms from here, police said. Designated ‘flying squad officer’ on election duty of Chitradurga Assembly Constituency, T Jayanth, alleged that Mewani had made the remarks against Modi, while addressing a gathering at an event in Chitradurga last evening. “The role of youth is important today. When Modi Ji arrives at Bengaluru on April 15 to address a public gathering you mingle with the…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday held discussions with his Nepalese counterpart K P Oli to deepen bilateral ties between the two neighbours The two leaders are believed to have discussed an entire gamut of issues concerning their bilateral ties “Strengthening the special and people-centric partnership based on historical and cultural context “PM @narendramodi warmly welcomes Prime Minister of Nepal K P Sharma Oli at Hyderabad House for delegation-level talks continuing the long-standing tradition of high-level visits,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted Modi had yesterday met the…

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today lambasted opposition parties for criticising prohibition policy saying the stance was “anti-poor” since the economically deprived sections of the society suffered the most on account of alcoholism. In an apparent reference to spate of communal flare-ups witnessed recently in the state, Kumar also made it clear that the rule of law will be upheld under his watch, “though there are elements in every society who keep looking for an opportunity to create tension”. “There are people who are angry with me because of obvious…

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Tamil Nadu’s main opposition party – the DMK – along with other parties like Congress, CPI(M) and CPI will hold a state-wide bandh or shutdown today. The reason behind the shutdown is the Cauvery water issue – a decades-old dispute between Tamil Nadu and its neighbouring state Karnataka. The DMK-led opposition parties are demanding that the Cauvery Management Board, as ordered by the Supreme Court, be set up immediately. They have accused the central government of delaying the setting up of the Cauvery Management Board due to electoral gains in…

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A Dalit parliamentarian of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi complaining against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Chhote Lal Kharwar, 45, has alleged that he met the chief minister twice, but was “scolded and thrown out”. Prime Minister Modi has reportedly assured him that action will be taken. Chhote Lal represents Uttar Pradesh’s Robertsganj constituency. His complaint has emerged days after the ruling party faced massive Dalit protests across the nation, in which 11 people were killed. Dalit groups were protesting against a Supreme…

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The HRD Ministry has set up a “high-powered committee” to examine the process by which the CBSE conducts examinations, following the alleged leak of the Class 10 mathematics and the Class 12 economics papers. The panel, headed by former HRD secretary V S Oberoi, will also suggest measures to make the process “secure and foolproof through the use of technology” and submit a report by May 31 to the ministry. “The government had yesterday constituted a High Powered Committee, comprising experts, under chairmanship of V S Oberoi, ex-Secretary, MHRD, to…

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