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April 25, 2017 12:17 PM

Malegaon blasts case: Bombay HC grants bail to Sadhvi Pragya

The Bombay High Court today granted bail to Sadhvi Pragya Singh Takhur but denied any relief to co-accused former Lt Col Prasad Purohit in the 2008 Malegaon blast case. <br/><br/>A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Shalini Phansalkar Joshi said the appeal filed by Sadhvi Pragya ...

April 25, 2017 12:06 PM

Rajnath Singh pays homage to 25 CRPF men killed in naxal ambush in Sukma

Union Home minister Rajnath Singh today paid homage to 25 CRPF personnel who were martyred in an encounter with Naxals in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.<br/><br/>Mr Singh arrived in Raipur at around 10.30 AM and directly headed to the headquarters of the 4th battalion of Chhattisgarh Ar...

April 25, 2017 10:59 AM

Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe to arrive in India on 5-day visit

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will arrive in New Delhi today on a five-day working visit to India. He will hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, Home minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari are schedu...

April 25, 2017 10:59 AM

Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari to will meet top leadership of Armenia

Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari, On the second day of his visit today, will meet the top leadership of Armenia. <br/><br/>Mr Ansari will also attend a series of functions there. Today is the 102nd commemoration day of the Armenian genocide, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari is no...

April 25, 2017 8:13 AM

World Malaria Day being observed today

Today is World Malaria Day. The day is observed every year to create awareness among the people about this vector borne disease. This year the theme for the Day made by World Health Organisation, WHO, is - ending malaria for good. <br/><br/>According to, World Health Organisation, WHO ne...

April 25, 2017 8:02 AM

CBSE scraps marks moderation policy

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has scrapped the moderation policy under which grace marks are given to students in exams for difficult questions. The decision was taken at the Board's high-level meeting.<br/><br/>The move comes after the CBSE had in December last ye...

April 25, 2017 7:56 AM

Rajnath Singh briefs PM Modi on Sukma attack

Home Minister Rajnath Singh briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi last night on the attack on a CRPF team in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district in which 25 jawans were killed.<br/><br/>According to PTI he apprised Modi of the circumstances leading to the attack and steps taken for treatme...

April 25, 2017 7:40 AM

Jaitley defends government move to bar NGOs from receiving foreign funds

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has defended the government's move to bar some NGOs from receiving foreign funding, saying doing good work as a civil society organisation does not make them immune to the law. <br/><br/>The minister, in New Yark, yesterday, said that the procedure unde...

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