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Naidu rejects criticism on impeachment motion, says decision not hasty
Under attack over his decision on rejecting the impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of India, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said the decision came after over a month of due diligence and was not done in haste.…
Six lakh CBSE students to give economics exam again on Wednesday
Harried over re-reading the syllabus and anxious whether they will match or improve their previous performance, about 600,000 class 12 CBSE students across the country will appear for their re-exam for economics paper on Wednesday.
The…
Sushma Swaraj slams Pakistan at SCO meet
India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday slammed Pakistan for sheltering terrorists and urged the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to act against the countries that promote terrorism.
Without a direct reference…
With World’s largest online recruitment drive, Railways set to ‘save 10 lakh…
That some 2.37 crore people have applied as the Indian Railways kicked off the process of filling up over 88,000 posts is clearly indicative of the "jobless growth" the country is experiencing.
But the exercise has a positive side - by…
Soldier injured in J&K forest shootout
An Indian Army soldier was injured on Tuesday in a shootout between hiding militants and the security forces in Jammu and Kashmirs' Tral forest area.
Police said following information about militants hiding in Lam forest area in Pulwama…
11 more dead Maoists found in Maharashtra river; toll reaches 33
The security forces have recovered at least 11 more bodies of suspected Maoists from the Indravati River here early on Tuesday, official sources said.
The bodies, which were bloated and have started to decompose, were found floating on…
No Parole for mafia don Abu Salem to get married
The Maharashtra Government on Saturday rejected an application by incarcerated mafia don Abu Salem seeking 45 days parole for getting married, official sources said here.
Among the grounds cited by the authorities are that parole is not…
Cabinet approves Ordinance to confiscate properties of Fugitive Economic Offenders
In a bid to bring back defaulters of huge bank loans who escape to refuges abroad, the Union Cabinet on Saturday approved an ordinance that would provide for attachment and confiscation of the properties of the economic offenders.
The…
Cabinet approves restructured scheme for making Local bodies self-sustainable
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Saturday approved a restructured Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan (RGSA) scheme aimed at making rural local bodies self-sustainable, financially stable and more efficient.
Addressing a press…
Yashwant Sinha announces end of his association with BJP
Senior BJP leader and former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who has been trenchant in his criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government, on Saturday announced that he was snapping his links with the BJP and launching…