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February 19, 2016 8:30 PM

Left Parties approach President Pranab Mukherjee over JNU row

Left Parties, RJD, JD (U) and NCP today approached President Pranab Mukherjee over JNU row. A delegation of these parties leaders met Mr. Mukherjee at Rashtrapathi Bhawan and sought his intervention. <br/><br/>Talking to reporters after the meeting, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechu...

February 19, 2016 8:28 PM

BCCI to file affidavit in Supreme Court on Lodha Report

The Board for Cricket Control in India ( BCCI) today unanimously decided to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court pointing out the anomalies and difficulties and clearing its stand in implementing the Justice Lodha Committee recommendations on the restructuring of the cricket board. The Supreme Cou...

February 19, 2016 8:27 PM

Press Club event: Ex DU lecturer Gilani denied bail

Former DU lecturer SAR Gilani, booked for sedition charges in connection with a Press Club event in New Delhi was today denied bail by a Delhi court. The Court said the slogans raised at this meeting could have incited violence and created public disorder. Metropolitan Magisrate Harvinder Singh dism...

February 19, 2016 8:22 PM

Lawyers protest at India Gate against anti-nationals

Lawyers, mostly from Patiala House Court and several other district courts, marched around the India Gate circle in Delhi shouting slogans and waving the tricolour amidst heavy deployment of police personnel. The lawyers were demanding action against those indulging in anti-India activities.<br/&...

February 19, 2016 7:57 PM

Prasar Bharati signs historical MoU with EBC

Prasar Bharati has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with Empressa de Brazil Communicacao (EBC) in connection with several broadcast related activities including exchange of programmes, news and co-production.<br/><br/><br/>The MoU was signed yesterday between Prasar Bharat...

February 19, 2016 7:39 PM

RS chairman calls all party meeting ahead of Budget Session

Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari has called a meeting of leaders of all parties in the House tomorrow to discuss the smooth functioning during ensuing Budget Session. The meeting is significant amid possibility of session beginning Tuesday to be stormy. This is perhaps the first such formal pre-ses...

February 19, 2016 7:05 PM

Maoists must shun violence first to join mainstream: Rajnath Singh

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said if Maoists want to join the mainstream, they must shun violence first. <br/><br/>At a review meeting on the Left wing extremism situation in the Naxal-affected Koraput and Malkangiri districts with senior officials of the BSF, CRPF and the Odish...

February 19, 2016 7:04 PM

Centre makes all-out efforts to promote jute

Centre is making all-out efforts to promote and popularize jute and jute-based products. <br/><br/>Inaugurating the National Seminar on Jute Diversification in Kolkata, Minister of State for Textiles, Santosh Kumar Gangwar said, Jute unlike plastic, polythene and other synthetic material...

February 19, 2016 7:04 PM

Congress questions PM's silence on JNU issue

Targeting the government over the ongoing JNU row, the Congress has questioned Prime Minister's silence on the matter. Briefing media in new Delhi, party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi criticised the use of doctored videos related to JNU row and the action against journalists.<br/>&lt...

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