Category: NATIONAL NEWS

The Centre has undertaken a special project to connect all the border posts along the Sino-India frontier with roads, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today as he reviewed the operational preparedness of a forward ITBP unit here. Singh ringed in the new year with the troops of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at this border post located at a height of 11,614 feet in Uttarakhand, where the mercury dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius today. This was the first time a home minister or a senior Union minister paid…

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Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, who had welcomed 2017 at a slum in Todapur area in New Delhi, will revisit it to celebrate the New Year’s Eve tonight. Tiwari will visit the Gas Godown Jhuggi Basti in Todapur and spend an hour with the children at the slum, said a Delhi BJP statement. He will also visit the Yamuna Bazar and stay there till midnight to ring in the New Year with the residents, it said. Last year, Tiwari had stayed at the Gas Godown slum as part of his…

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A piercing cold wave swept across the hilly states in north India even as a blanket of fog covered the plains, hampering the movement of air, rail and road traffic today. In Delhi, more than 150 flights were delayed, around 50 diverted and 20 canceled as the season’s “worst” fog reduced visibility to a meager 50 metres at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Hundreds of flyers were left stranded as no flights could take off between 7.30 am and 11.05 am, according to an airport official. The minimum required visibility…

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The Mumbai civic administration has cracked down on restaurants and started razing unauthorised constructions, in the wake of a fire at a rooftop pub in central Mumbai’s Lower Parel which snuffed out 14 lives. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) took action against at least five eateries and restaurants following yesterday’s fire at Kamala Mills compound. A BMC official confirmed that they have pulled down “illegal roofs” of two restaurants -‘Skyview Caf ‘ and ‘Social’ in Kamala Mills and encroachments of ‘Pranay’ and ‘Fumes’ and ‘Sheesha Sky Lounge’ at Raghuvanshi Mills…

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India today issued a strong demarche to Palestine on the issue of presence of its ambassador to Pakistan at an event of JuD chief and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, terming it as “unacceptable”. India’s Secretary (economic relations) Vijay Gokhale in the external affairs ministry called Palestinian ambassador here Adnan Abu Al Haija to the South Block after which the ministry said, “the concerns were conveyed both in New Delhi to the Palestinian Ambassador and in Ramallah to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, State of Palestine.” “Government…

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The Congress today denounced the government over a terror attack on a CRPF camp in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, saying it was a sign of failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy. Party spokesperson Sushmita Dev said here that such recurring attacks send a message that anti-national forces do not fear India. During elections, Modi says India is a strong nation. But the number of casualties in ceasefire violations was going up, Dev said at a press conference. “It is a sign of failure of Prime Minister…

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Police today arrested two persons for allegedly providing shelter to the owners of ‘1-Above’ pub who were booked after a fire at their establishment claimed 14 lives on Friday. Police had booked the pub owners, Hitesh Sanghvi and Jigar Sanghvi, co-owner Abhijeet Manka and others on various charges, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Lookout notices were issued against the Sanghvi brothers yesterday. Their uncle Rakesh Sanghvi and cousin Aditya Sanghvi were arrested today, senior police inspector, Byculla, Avinash Shingthe said. A search was on for their another relative,…

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