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May 20, 2017 6:35 PM

Govt may step in if triple talaq practice not changed: Naidu

Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said that the government may have to step in and enact a law to ban triple talaq if the Muslim community fails to change the practice. <br/><br/>While addressing a media in Amaravati, the minister said that it is for the society to take up the issue ...

May 20, 2017 5:39 PM

Cabinet to soon take a call on FIPB abolition: Sitharaman

Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said that the Union Cabinet will soon take a call on the winding up of 25-year-old Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). The minister said this in a media briefing in New Delhi on initiatives and achievements of the ministry in the last th...

May 20, 2017 4:44 PM

World is moving towards rapid urbanisation which is irreversible: Naidu

Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information and Broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu has said, the world is moving towards rapid urbanisation which is irreversible. He said, 54.4 per cent of the world population is already urbanized. <br/><br/>&l...

May 20, 2017 3:07 PM

Indian wins world's Largest pre-college science competition in US

An Indian boy has won the world's largest pre-college science competition in the US in the environmental engineering category for his project on biodegradation of pesticides. <br/><br/>Prashant Ranganathan, a 12th grader from Jamshedpur, alongwith over 20 high school students from v...

May 20, 2017 1:29 PM

Narada sting: ED issues fresh summons to CEO Mathew Samuel

The Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to Narada news CEO Mathew Samuel in its money laundering probe, initiated after a sting operation purportedly showed several TMC leaders, including MPs and ministers, taking money.<br/><br/>Samuel was first summoned by the central prob...

May 20, 2017 10:55 AM

ICMR to implement UN agency's standards on clinical trials

India's apex medical research body along with other leading groups will adopt UN health agency's recommendations to register and publicly disclose results of all clinical trials they fund or support. <br/><br/>The Indian Council of Medical Research, the Norwegian Research Counc...

May 20, 2017 9:15 AM

Arbitration a ''speedy tool'' for dispute resolution, says Hamid Ansari

Vice-President Hamid Ansari today said arbitration process offers a useful and speedy tool for resolution of disputes resulting in saving time of courts and the litigants. He was addressing the two-day Conference on Dispute Management in Infrastructure Projects - New Challenges in New Delhi. He said...

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