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December 8, 2016 8:32 AM

Cyclonic depression over South East Bay of Bengal intensifies into deep depression

Depression over South East Bay of Bengal has intensified into a Deep Depression and a pre-cyclone watch for Andhra Pradesh Coast. It is very likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm during next 24 hrs. The deep depression unleashed its furry in the city and south Andaman region...

December 8, 2016 7:10 AM

ED registers forex violation case against Air Asia

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a forex violation case to probe an allegation that fraudulent transactions involving non-existent entities in India and Singapore, were carried out in an instance involving Air Asia airlines. The ED has issued summons to the airli...

December 8, 2016 6:50 AM

Labour Minister seeks more mobile ATMs for workforce

Labour and Employment Minister Bandaru Dattatreya has urged Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to deploy mobile ATMs in all the industrial clusters specially in remote and rural areas where there is pre-dominance of workers. During a meeting with Mr Jaitley in New Delhi last evening...

December 8, 2016 6:43 AM

'Indo-Pak relations sluggish but no impact on bilateral arrangements: V K Singh

The Government has said, the India-Pakistan relationship has become sluggish but it has no impact on bilateral arrangements, including on exchange of fishermen and prisoners caught on either side. Responding to a question in the Lok Sabha yesterday, Minister of State for Externa...

December 8, 2016 6:37 AM

Hacking of twitter handles of Rahul, Congress done from abroad: Delhi police

The recent hacking of twitter handles of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and his party was carried out from five countries including the United States, Canada and Romania, said Delhi Police. Last week, Congress filed a complaint with the Delhi Police's Cyber Cell over...

December 8, 2016 6:22 AM

Cabinet approves EC's proposal to buy new EVMs

The Election Commission's proposal to purchase new Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) which costs over one thousand crore rupees, has been approved by the Union Cabinet yesterday. The approval was given to purchase 4 lakh 10 Thousand Ballot Units and 3 lakh 14 thousand Contr...

December 8, 2016 5:52 AM

'Allahabad HC dismisses petition challenging PM Modi's election from Varanasi

The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a petition challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election from Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. 'Upholding the election of Mr. Modi, Justice Vikram Nath rapped petitioner Ajay Rai, Congress MLA and the party's candidate ...

December 7, 2016 9:29 PM

SC allows BCCI to incur Rs 1.33 cr expenses for India-England Tests

The Supreme Court today allowed the BCCI to incur expenses of Rs 1(point)33 crore for holding the remaining two cricket test matches between India and England scheduled at Mumbai and Chennai. A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur, Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachu...

December 7, 2016 9:25 PM

All India Radio earns over Rs 4 cr through Mann Ki Baat ads

All India Radio has earned over four crore 78 lakh rupees through advertisements for Mann Ki Baat Programme during 2015-16. The monthly programme is being hosted by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi through which he shares his thoughts with the people. In a written reply to a qu...

December 7, 2016 9:23 PM

Cabinet gives ex-post facto approval to MoUs in different sectors

Union Cabinet has provided its ex-post facto approval to the MoU between India and Vietnam on Cooperation in the area of Information Technology. The MoU is with the objective of developing a long-term and sustainable cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual interest in the areas of IT in line...

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