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February 9, 2017 2:05 PM
Acting on aviation regulator DGCA's orders, Air India has taken off flying duties its operations department head for skipping the mandatory pre-flight medical test. Air India said that the orders to remove Air India Executive Director (Operations) Capt A K Kathpalia from flying duties were issu...
February 9, 2017 2:02 PM
The Cabinet has approved Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan to make 6 crore rural households digitally literate by March 2019. The outlay for this project is over two thousand 351 crore rupees to usher in digital literacy in rural India. An official release said, the Abhiyan is expected...
February 9, 2017 1:57 PM
In Uttar Pradesh, ?notification was issued today for the last and seventh phase poll for 40 assembly seats of Varanasi, Bhadohi, Mirzapur, Jaunpur, Chandauli and other eastern districts. Campaigning for the 73 assembly seats of ?15 western districts going to polls in the first phase of ele...
February 9, 2017 1:56 PM
The government today introduced the Indian Institutes of Management Bill, 2017 in the Lok Sabha. The bill was moved by Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar.<br/><br/>It seeks to declare certain institutes of management to be institutions of national importance to empower...
February 9, 2017 1:56 PM
The government has set March 2019 as target to replace 77 crore old bulbs with the LED bulbs and 3(point)5 crore street lights in all urban local bodies in the country.<br/><br/>In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said, approximately 20.60 crore LED bul...
February 9, 2017 1:39 PM
The Lok Sabha today resumed discussion on Union Budget 2017-18 which was tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on 1st of this month.<br/><br/>Participating in the discussion, Kalyan Banerjee of TMC termed the Budget as clueless and missionless. He said, it does not provide any roadmap ...
February 9, 2017 1:28 PM
The government is going to start Highways Advisory Services to provide real time traffic updates on 12 National Highways in 13 States through All India Radio. Replying to supplementaries in the Lok Sabha, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said phase one of the pilot project was impl...
February 9, 2017 1:02 PM
The Supreme Court today directed real estate businessman and owner of Uphaar Cinema in Delhi Gopal Ansal to serve one year jail term in connection with the 1997 fire tragedy case in which 59 people had died.<br/><br/>The apex court, in a majority verdict of 2:1, asked Gopal Ansal to surr...
February 9, 2017 1:00 PM
Congress, RJD and NCP today staged a brief walkout from the Lok Sabha protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's yesterday's remarks against former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.<br/><br/>As soon as Zero Hour started, Congress leader Malliarjun Kharge raised the issue...
February 9, 2017 12:57 PM
The government today said that it has set a target of providing electricity to all households by 15th of August,2022. Replying to supplementary in the Lok Sabha, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said, the government is committed to this and efforts are on to achieve the goal.<br/><br/>He info...
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