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September 29, 2017 9:03 AM

Surgical Strike anniversary today

Today is the anniversary of surgical strike, which the Army executed on the night of September 28 last year. It was on this day the Indian commanders paratrooped into Pakistan and killed 50 terrorists. The strike followed a terror attack in an Indian Army camp at Uri in jammu and Kashmir.

September 29, 2017 8:25 AM

Rajnath to address probationers of civil service at LBS National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in Uttrakhand yesterday on a four-day visit to take part in various programmes. He will address the probationers of civil service at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie today. Mr...

September 29, 2017 8:10 AM

India, Norway extends bilateral cooperation in health sector

India and Norway have extended bilateral cooperation in health sector through the Norway-India Partnership Initiative for a period of three years starting 2018. A letter of Intent was signed to this effect in New Delhi yesterday between the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Norwegi...

September 29, 2017 7:56 AM

Maha Navami celebrated in different parts of country

Maha Navami is being celebrated today with gaiety and fervour in different parts of the country. ' In the eastern and northeastern states, Durga Puja is synonymous with Navratri, wherein goddess Durga battles and emerges victorious over the buffalo demon to help restore Dhar...

September 29, 2017 7:52 AM

Govt finalising electoral bonds scheme: Arun Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the government is finalising electoral bonds scheme, which aims at cleaning up political funding. Mr Jaitley said this at a book release function in New Delhi yesterday. He said, the government has already announced this in this year'...

September 29, 2017 7:51 AM

DGCA gets strict, says flights not ready to take off on time will move to end of queue

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has ordered that if a flight does not initiate takeoff within five minutes of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) clearance, it will be moved to the end of the queue. The Order of the aviation watchdog said that such flights will be allowed to depart only when a s...

September 29, 2017 5:24 AM

Home Ministry sets up expert committee suggests ways to tackle cybercrime

A high-level committee set up to recommend new laws or amendments to deal with hate speech on the Internet, has submitted its report to the Home Ministry. The committee, headed by former Secretary General of the Lok Sabha, T K Viswanathan, has recommended appointing cybercrime ...

September 29, 2017 5:23 AM

Railways working with ISRO to devise safety mechanisms to make travel more safer: Piyush Goel

Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has said that Indian Railways is working with the Indian Space Research Organisation to devise safety mechanisms to make travel by trains more safer. Mr Goyal said he met ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar few days ago in this regard. He said Indian Ra...

September 29, 2017 5:19 AM

India assures full support to build peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan

President Ram Nath Kovind has said, India deeply respects the supreme sacrifice made by the Afghan National Defence and Security forces to fight the forces of terror. He said, India stands with the government and people of Afghanistan in their quest for peace, stability and pros...

September 29, 2017 5:19 AM

'Govt plans to borrow Rs 2 lakh cr in second half of 2017-18

Government plans to borrow 2(point)08 lakh crore rupees from the market in the second half of 2017-18 reiterating its commitment to meet the fiscal deficit target of 3(point)2 per cent of GDP. To finance the fiscal deficit for the current financial year, the Budget has pegged gr...

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