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May 18, 2016 8:51 PM

Centre urges States to prepare weekly action plans on drought

The Centre today urged drought-hit state governments to periodically review water shortage and prepare action plans on weekly basis. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Radha Mohan Singh said, the state plans should specifically aim to tide over challenges like shortage or scarcity of drinking water...

May 18, 2016 8:45 PM

NDA govt cuts down timeline of granting environmental clearance to projects

The BJP today said, the NDA government has drastically cut down the timeline of granting environmental clearance to projects from 600 days to 190. Party Secretary Shrikant Sharma said in New Delhi that during UPA regime, the prescribed timeline for such clearances was 600 days which caused delay in ...

May 18, 2016 8:40 PM

North and west India continues to reel under heatwave

The heat wave conditions continued to prevail at most places in western Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Haryana, eastern Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Maharashtra. The MeT department said, there will be no significant change in maximum temperatures over northwest, west and central India during next ...

May 18, 2016 8:39 PM

Consolidation govt policy; need global-sized institutions: Jaitley

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the country needs global-sized institutions and proposal of SBI to merge its five associate banks with itself and acquire Bharatiya Mahila Bank is in line with the government's policy. <br/><br/>Mr Jaitley said consolidation is part of the In...

May 18, 2016 8:34 PM

Govt to come out with solution to address NEET issue: Nadda

The Centre today said that it will very soon come out with a solution to address the concerns of the States and students regarding National Eligibility Entrance Test, NEET for admission in MBBS and BDS courses. In an exclusive interview to AIR, Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said, the issues re...

May 18, 2016 7:39 PM

Law against marital rape may not be effective solution: Maneka

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has said that making law against marital rape may not be an effective solution to curb the menace. In an exclusive interview to AIR, the minister said that the real issue was that the victims usually don't come out and complain. She added that ...

May 18, 2016 6:40 PM

NGT notice to DDCA, DJB, TPDDL for wasting water

The National Green Tribunal today issued notice to Delhi and District Cricket Association, DDCA, Delhi Jal Board and Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) on a plea alleging they were wasting water and directed them to submit their reply by June 6.<br/><br/>The plea filed by an NGO alleg...

May 18, 2016 6:39 PM

SC refuses to stay NBW against NCP leader Pankaj Bhujbal

The Supreme Court today refused to stay a non-bailable warrant (NBW) against Pankaj Bhujbal, son of senior NCP leader Chaggan Bhujbal, in a money laundering case. The bench of Justices A M Sapre and Ashok Bhushan asked Pankaj, who is evading arrest in the case, to first take legal recourse before th...

May 18, 2016 5:58 PM

NSD AIR to broadcast special programme on Assembly poll results tomorrow

The News Services Division of All India Radio will broadcast a special live bilingual programme in Hindi and English on Assembly election results in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Kerala from 0830 hours to 1400 hrs. tomorrow, i.e. 19th May, 2016. In this programme experts and corresp...

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