Category: NATIONAL NEWS

Asserting that the sanctity of government jobs examinations must be maintained at any cost, a Parliamentary panel has asked the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) to spare no efforts in ensuring that such tests are free from any malpractices. The SCC, which conducts exams to select candidates for various central government jobs, had to cancel nine examinations, fully or partially, in the last five years. Most recently, it had to recommend a CBI enquiry into allegations pertaining to the conduct of Combined Graduate Level (Tier-II) examination 2017. Such cancellation of exams…

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Continuing his attack on the Janata Dal (Secular), Congress president Rahul Gandhi today asked former prime minister H D Deve Gowda’s party to come clean on its support to the BJP. “JD(S), they have to make it clear whether they are the BJP’s B team or not,” Gandhi said at a public meeting here in the Vokkaliga belt of the old Mysuru region, considered a JD(S) stronghold. “They (JD-S) have to make it clear whether they are supporting the BJP, if yes, why? The JD(S) stands for ‘Janata Dal Sangh…

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Gearing up for the next general election, BJP President Amit Shah today set a target of 21 seats out of 25 parliamentary constituencies from northeast in Lok Sabha polls in 2019. Addressing a rally of BJP booth unit chiefs here, he asked the party members to work towards achieving this target. “I want to give a target for 2019 polls. We want to win more than 21 seats out of 25 seats from North East,” Shah said in the rally. “Except Mizoram, all other states in NE are ruled by…

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Congress President Rahul Gandhi today hit out at Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad over huge pendency of cases in courts and shortage of judges, and charged him with “peddling fake news” instead. His attack came after Prasad accused the Congress of hiring the services of controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica, accused of harvesting data stolen from Facebook, in previous elections. The charge has been denied by the Congress, which instead accused the BJP of using the services of the firm. Legal system collapsing under Pending Cases: Supreme Court 55,000+, High…

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Congress MLA in Maharashtra Nitesh Rane today said car stickers given to legislators were being misused by certain people and sought action against them. Raising the issue in the Assembly, Rane said he found one such sticker on a car bearing registration number MH02 CL 6353 owned by one Bala Khopade, who, he said, was not a lawmaker. “As per my knowledge, there is no legislator by such a name,” he said and demanded that Khopade be arrested. The MLA from Kankavli was supported by Manisha Chaudhary (BJP) who said…

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Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said the BJP’s “lying factory” was at work again, stymieing a media story on Cambridge Analytica allegedly being paid to sabotage the Congress by spinning “fake news” of the party working with the data firm instead. Picking up from where he left off yesterday, Gandhi today again accused the BJP of making the real news “vanish” by accusing the Congress of working with the controversial firm charged with stealing data from Facebook. BJP lying factory at work: Journalist set to break big story on how…

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एससी-एसटी एक्ट पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट के फैसले के बाद विपक्ष और सरकार आमने-सामने आ गई है. जब से यह फैसला आया है, तब से कांग्रेस इस फैसले से नाराज चल रही है. मगर अब कांग्रेस नेताओं ने राहुल गांधी की नेतृत्व में संसद परिसर में स्थित महात्मा गांधी की प्रतिमा के सामने प्रदर्शन किया और सरकार से एससी-एसटी एक्ट पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट में पुनर्विचार याचिका दाखिल करने की मांग की. इस दौरान नारे लगाए जा रहे थे- दलितों के सम्मान में, राहुल गांधी मैदान में. बताया जा रहा है कि…

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फेसबुक का डाटा चोरी होने की खबरों के बीच मुख्य चुनाव आयुक्त ओपी रावत ने कहा है कि नई तकनीकी के साथ फूंक-फूंक कर कदम रखने की जरूरत है. फेसबुक का डाटा चोरी कर चुनाव प्रभावित करने की खबरों पर उन्होंने कहा, ‘हम जानकारी इकट्ठा कर रहे हैं कि क्या रिस्क हैं, उनको कैसे रोका जा सकता है. मीटिंग बुला रहे हैं’. ओपी रावत ने कहा, ‘आयोग की रेगुलर मीटिंग होती रहती है. ये नई टेक्नोलॉजी है. हम चाहेंगे की जो तरह-तरह के रिस्क हैं उनको कैसे रोक सकते हैं.…

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Launching a stinging attack against the government, Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said it invented a story on data theft by the Congress to divert attention from the death of 39 Indians in Iraq. The Congress president also accused the government of baiting the media. Problem: 39 Indians dead; Government on the mat, caught lying. Solution: Invent story on Congress and Data Theft. Result: Media networks bite bait; 39 Indians vanish from radar. Problem solved, he said on Twitter. The Congress has been accusing the government of managing headlines to…

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Laying emphasis on environment, health and education sectors, the AAP government on Thursday presented a Rs 53,000 crore budget for 2018-19 fiscal, while making a slew of announcements, including a major thrust on “green” initiatives for pollution reduction and launching ‘health insurance for all scheme The government also announced installation of CCTV cameras in schools, providing self-defence training for girl students, allocating Rs 100 crore for free Wi-Fi, which was a major pre-poll promise by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and installation of 1.2 lakh CCTV cameras in the city…

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