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December 11, 2015 7:07 AM

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on three-day visit to India from today

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will arrive in New Delhi this evening on a three day visit to India to attend annual summit. Mr. Abe will hold delegation level talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow. <br/><br/>Talks will be followed by signing of agreements and joint Press s...

December 11, 2015 7:03 AM

IOC marketing manager arrested for ISIS links

In Rajasthan, a senior official of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) was arrested in Jaipur yesterday for his alleged links with terrorist organisation ISIS. <br/><br/>Additional Director General of Police (Anti Terrorism Squad and Special Operation Group), Alok Tripathi said that Mohd Sirazu...

December 11, 2015 6:52 AM

Govt slashes minimum export price of onions to $400 per ton

Government has slashed the Minimum Export Price, MEP of onions to 400 US dollars per tonne from 700 dollars a tonne. In a tweet, Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said, the decision was taken at a meeting chaired by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday. The meeting was also attended by Agricul...

December 10, 2015 8:45 PM

Demands in LS for CBI probe into paddy scam

Demands were made in Lok Sabha for a CBI probe into the alleged paddy procurement scam in Bihar and some other states. Raising the issue in the Zero Hour, Sushil Kumar Singh of BJP cited the recent CAG report and said the scam can be compared to the Fodder scam of Bihar. <br/><br/>He sai...

December 10, 2015 8:42 PM

Union Territories must have human rights commissions: CJI

Chief Justice of India T S Thakur has said that Union Territories of the country must have their human rights commissions as nobody should be deprived of their rights. Speaking at the Human Rights day programme organized by National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi today, Chief Justice Thakur sa...

December 10, 2015 8:41 PM

Ganga rejuvenation: NGT bans plastic from Gomukh to Haridwar

The National Green Tribunal, NGT today banned use of plastic of any kind from Gomukh to Haridwar along Ganga with effect from 1st February 2016 while slapping a penalty of 5,000 rupees per day on erring hotels, dharamshalas and ashrams spewing waste into the river. <br/><br/>It also bann...

December 10, 2015 8:32 PM

Sharad Pawar&apos;s autobiography released in Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said NCP leader and former Minister Sharad Pawar has been active in the cooperative sector and he balanced politics and the cooperative movement. <br/><br/>Speaking at the release of autobiography of Sharad Pawar in New Delhi, Mr Modi said, Mr Pawar met...

December 10, 2015 8:27 PM

Union Territories must have human rights commissions: CJI

Chief Justice of India T S Thakur has said that Union Territories of the country must have their human rights commissions as nobody should be deprived of their rights. Speaking at the Human Rights day programme organized by National Human Rights Commission in New Delhi today, Chief Justice Thakur sa...

December 10, 2015 8:13 PM

Honda Cars India to recall 90,210 units of City, Mobilio

Japanese auto major Honda will recall over 90,000 units of its sedan City and multi-purpose vehicle Mobilio in India manufactured between December 2013 to July 2015 to replace fuel return pipe. The recall will affect only the diesel variants of the two models. <br/><br/>The company'...

December 10, 2015 8:12 PM

Govt declares Tamil Nadu flood as Calamity of Severe Nature

The Union Government has declared the recent Tamil Nadu flood as a "Calamity of Severe Nature." In a statement in Chennai, the state chief minister J.Jayalalithaa has said, the centre has made the declaration as requested by her. <br/><br/>She has added that the Parliament Secr...

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