Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje today said her government was serious on improving canal systems in the state and that she had spoken to her Haryana counterpart about works related to the Indira Gandhi canal. Speaking at a function in Srigangangar district, Raje said she spoke to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today to get hurdles in relining the Indira Gandhi canal removed. “Work would commence soon,” she said, adding that farmers in the state would get more water after the work on the Indira Gandhi canal is complete.…

Students here took to the streets on Thursday to protest the CBSE’s decision to hold re-examination of Class 10 Mathematics and Class 12 Economics papers, even as the Congress demanded that Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar and the board chairperson be sacked Amid massive protests over the paper leaks issue, Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, going into rhyme, saying “in everything there is leak, the ‘chowkidar’ is weak” Javadekar, however, put up a brave and said the culprits will not go scot-free. He termed the issue…

Most major markets in the city were closed today as traders downed shutters to voice their protest against the sealing drive. A large number of traders, their family members and employees gathered at the Ramlila grounds to participate in a mega rally to mark their protest at the attack on their livelihoods, trade association leaders said. “Thousands of traders are participating in the strike and shops are closed in all the markets of the city,” said Praveen Khandelwal, general secretary of Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT). Today’s strike has…

Union minister Ananth Kumar today accused opposition MPs, including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, of ridiculing Parliament and said people would give them a “befitting reply” for mocking the process of a no-confidence motion. The tactics would boomerang on the opposition, the Union parliamentary affairs minister said, a day after opposition parties protested in the Lok Sabha by holding placards to suggest they had numbers to move a no-confidence motion against the government. The second leg of the budget session, which started on March 5, seemed to be heading for a…

The Lok Sabha today failed to take up again notices for no-confidence motion against the government after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan said the House was not in order and adjourned proceedings amid noisy protests over various issues. In a novel way to convey they have enough numbers to seek the no-confidence motion, members from the Congress, the Left and some other parties displayed blue-coloured placards, each with a circled number along with the words ‘For no- confidence’. The numbers ranged from 1 to at least 80. At least 50 members need…

Yoga guru Ramdev launched a new initiative on the occasion of Ramnavami today with an avowed aim to make India a spiritual superpower by conferring ‘deeksha’ on a batch of around 90 ‘sanyasis’ (renunciates) groomed by Patanjali. The ‘deeksha’ was accorded to 51 sanyasis and 39 sanyasins on the banks of the Ganga in the holy city by Ramdev in the presence of their family members. Welcoming their initiation into a life of renunciation, the yoga guru said nothing could be more glorious than the act of offering oneself to…

Accusing the BJP of seeking to drive a wedge into the new-found bonhomie between her party with the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today said the two parties’ “friendship” has been forged in national interest and not to meet any selfish end. “The BSP’s close ties with the Samajwadi Party are not for any selfish motive but in the national interest,” she said, emphasising that the opposition parties will have to work jointly to stop the BJP from coming to power at the Centre. She said the non-BJP…