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February 17, 2016 3:53 PM
Minister for Communication and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that there is a eloquent, powerful, constructive and alternative voice in JNU and the country is equally eager to hear that voice. Speaking to media in New Delhi today, Mr Prasad said, JNU is a very premier institution of India and It is...
February 17, 2016 2:42 PM
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gave its nod to six railway lines and a railway bridge to cater to increased passenger and freight needs across country at a cost of 10,700 crore rupees. <br/><br/>Briefing media, Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu said, the CCEA also cleared...
February 17, 2016 2:40 PM
The Cabinet gave its nod for amendment of Delimitation Act, Representation of the People Act to allow delimitation of constituencies in West Bengal. The amendments were necessary after exchanges of enclaves between India and Bangladesh last year. The amendments will enable Election Commission to car...
February 17, 2016 2:36 PM
The Centre today eased norms to allow officers to stay on foreign posting and central deputation for a maximum period of seven years from the existing five years. This shall be done with the approval of the minister of the borrowing ministry or department concerned with which the officers are admini...
February 17, 2016 2:27 PM
The Union Cabinet has approved signing of Agreement for collaboration in Traditional Medicine between Ministry of AYUSH and the World Health Organisation. Briefing media in New Delhi this afternoon, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, this will help in improving International ac...
February 17, 2016 2:23 PM
In Srinagar, Independent MLA Sheikh Abdul Rashid was today detained after he took out a march to express solidarity with JNU students and register protest against the arrest of former Delhi University professor S A R Geelani over alleged anti-India sloganeering. Rashid was taken into preventive cust...
February 17, 2016 2:15 PM
Tamil Nadu chief minister J.Jayalalithaa has sought an early decision by the Centre on the location of the proposed All India Institute of Medical Sciences-AIIMS in Tamil Nadu. In the 2015-16 Union Budget it was announced that AIIMS-like medical institutes will be established in various states inclu...
February 17, 2016 1:48 PM
Delhi police commissioner B S Bassi today said no clean chit has been given to Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU students union president. Today Mr Bassi briefed the Prime minister's office about the JNU incident. AIR correspondent quoting official sources reports, Mr Bassi said there are adequate materi...
February 17, 2016 1:48 PM
Congress has urged President Pranab Mukherjee not to take any action over withdrawal of President's Rule in Arunachal Predesh if Centre makes any recommendation in this regard. A party delegation led by senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad met Mr. Mukherjee at Rashtrapathi Bhawan and submitted a memo...
February 17, 2016 1:46 PM
A District court in Allahabad has ordered filing of sedition charge against Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi in connection with JNU incident where he later visited. A petition was filed by a lawyer Sushil Kumar Shukla. The judicial magistrate in his order asked to file charges against Rahul Gand...
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