Category: NATIONAL NEWS

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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A 46-year-old potato farmer in Agra has commited suicide on Tuesday, allegedly because he had a huge loan burden. The family of Kanchan Singh, claims that he had borrowed Rs. 7 lakh, from a bank and private money lenders. Kanchan Singh’s potato crop had failed for successive years, said his family, and he was unable to repay the loan. The farmer was also worried about his daughter’s marriage scheduled next month. ‘My father owed Rs. 5 lakh to the bank and Rs. 2 lakh to local moneylenders,” the farmer’s son told news agency . He also…

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As the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh celebrates a year today, an alliance partner has given it a poor assessment and has gone public with his view that there are “grave problems”. Om Prakash Rajbhar, a minister in the UP cabinet, also warns that the ruling BJP “will lose elections” if the government doesn’t shape up. “Celebrating and talking about building temples in Mathura and Kashi mean nothing. No one else has the guts to question this government. If speaking the truth is revolt then I am revolting,” Mr…

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BJP national president Amit Shah will visit Odisha in April, a party leader said. Amit Shah is likely to arrive during the first or second week of April, BJP state president Basant Panda said in Bhubaneshwar on Sunday. During the visit, the BJP chief will attend public meetings and youth conferences in western districts like Sambalpur, Kalahandi, Sundargarh, Bolangir and Sonepur. The BJP chief is also expected to interact with local BJP leaders and prepare strategies to make the party’s base stronger ahead of the 2019 assembly polls. The BJP…

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Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan today asked the NDA leaders to desist from making off-the-cuff remarks and be “more tactful” during elections, in the wake of the party’s poor showing in the recent bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. He expressed concern over some leaders of the ruling NDA at the centre occasionally making remarks that created an impression of the alliance being against certain sections of the society and also spoke about why his son spoke about course correction that the BJP needs after bypoll results. Mr Paswan’s Lok…

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Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Sunday said that while Gujarat has done very well in industrialisation, it will need to do some catching-up in the health and education sectors. Mr Kumar met Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and senior state officials in Gandhinagar. “Gujarat’s achievements in education and health are not like those in other areas like industrialisation, infrastructure and energy….it lags behind in these two (health and education). I talked about this with the state government,” he said, speaking to reporters after the meeting. He was happy to…

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