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August 19, 2015 1:53 PM

UP minister Chitranjan Swarup passes away

In Uttar Pradesh, Minister Chitranjan Swarup, also a sitting MLA from Muzaffarnagar, died today after a prolonged illness. The house after paying tribute to 71 year old three time MLA, adjourned for the day. He was holding portfolio of minister of state for Parliamentary affairs, Urban Development a...

August 19, 2015 1:19 PM

AAP workers protest against arrest of FTII students

In Pune, the Aam Adami Party (AAP) workers demonstrated opposite Decccan Police station protesting against the arrest of the students of FTII. Meanwhile, for further process a special team will be sent to Pune by central government. Whereas, the FIR case registered against 17 students of FTII and fi...

August 19, 2015 1:19 PM

Monsoon active over U'khand, WB, Sikkim and NE region

Southwest monsoon is vigorous over Assam and Meghalaya and active over Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Sikkim and North East region. Heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls occurred at isolated places over Meghalaya. Heavy rainfall has also occurred at isolated places over Uttar Pradesh, W...

August 19, 2015 1:19 PM

4 JDU MLAs join BJP in Bihar

In Bihar, 4 JDU dissident MLAs along with their supporters today joined BJP. Gyanendra Singh Gyanu, Dinesh Kushwah, Suresh Chanchal and Rajeswar Raj have taken membership of party at Patna in presence of State BJP President Mangal Pandey. On this occasion, Mr. Pandey said the party will be strengthe...

August 19, 2015 12:33 PM

Coal scam: CBI court grants bail to ex-Coal Secy, four others

A special CBI court in Delhi today granted bail to former Coal Secretary H C Gupta and four others, including two senior public servants, facing charges for their alleged roles in a coal block allocation scam case. Besides Gupta, the court granted bail to two senior public servants, K S Kropha and K...

August 19, 2015 12:31 PM

Jaitley seeks debate on Rajya Sabha role on holding reforms

Criticising the Congress-led Opposition over stalling of important legislations, including the Goods and Services Tax bill, during the just-concluded Monsoon session, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that time has come to debate whether an indirectly elected house Rajya Sabha can hold reforms ...

August 19, 2015 12:28 PM

Mumbai police arrests man for sexually harassing American woman

Mumbai police today arrested a man for allegedly sexually harassing an American woman on Monday morning near Gateway of India. The accused has been identified as Gopal Valmiki. According to police officials a case was registered yesterday at Colaba police station against Valmiki after the tweet of v...

August 19, 2015 12:24 PM

Sex determination: SC asks Google, Yahoo, Microsoft to remove ads

The Supreme Court has asked search engines like Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation India Pvt Ltd to respond to a PIL which alleged that they were violating laws and a court order by not blocking advertisements on sex determination of a foetus.<br/><br/>A bench of justice...

August 19, 2015 11:47 AM

Centre asks MMTC to import 10,000 tonnes of onion

The Centre has asked state-run trading company MMTC to import 10,000 tonnes of onion. It has also directed National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation, NAFED to cancel its tender. NAFED had re-invited bids for import 10,000 tonnes of onions from countries like Pakistan, China and Egypt af...

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