Farmers fail to reap benefits
While the prices of essential goods are skyrocketing in the market, what is ironical is that the farmers are still getting a meager sum of money for their produce. The vegetables that are sold at a price of over Rs30 per kg, fetch only a sum of Rs2-3 for the...
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Scarce land for cultivation makes City dependent on other States
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Woman posted at Union Finance Ministry commits suicide in Noida
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Cash crunch hits police's Hamari Police Hamare Mohalle project
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Centre to sign MoU with MNCs from US, France
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Morgan Stanley lauds Rly Min's innovative approach of funding
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NIA makes request for quizzing Headley's Moroccan wife
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Trinamool activists held for ISI links, party mum
30 November 2015 | Saugar Sengupta
grapevine
Food for thought Union Health Ministry has planned a meeting between megastar Amitabh Bachchan and frontline health workers after the former expressed desire to interact with the ground level staff who are the backbone of the effective health system. Brand ambassador of India in the fight against Polio and tuberculosis (TB),...
It's free-for-all in Tamil Nadu Cong
The Congress in Tamil Nadu is facing a riot like situation with state Mahila Congress chief S Vijayadharani MlA and her associates filing a criminal complaint against EVKS Elangovan, the TNCC president and three others for abusing them and outraging the modesty of women. The Anna Road Police Station in...
lanco Hills' move to sell disputed Telangana land hits Waqf hurdle
With the lanco Hills Company issuing full-page advertisements in Hyderabad newspapers to sell its residential and commercial spaces at the lanco Hills project, Telangana State Waqf Board and the State minorities department has swung into action to prevent any such transaction. After the Hyderabad High Court had ruled that the massive...
Polling for Guj local bodies ends peacefully
The second and final phase of a two-tier polls to the local self-Government bodies in Gujarat on Sunday concluded peacefully barring scattered incidents of irregularities with an initial estimate of 54 to 58 per cent voting on an average. Fate of over 19,700 candidates sealed in Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs) on...
'Kalam wanted to quit as President in 2005'
APJ Abdul Kalam had thought of quitting as the President in 2005 after the Supreme Court quashed the proclamation dissolving Bihar Assembly, according to SM Khan, who was his Press Secretary at that time. “Though Kalam was reluctant, he signed the proclamation. He could have rejected it but would have had...
Why Karnataka Govt wants to kill lokayukta institution
The just concluded 10-day Winter Session of the Karnataka Assembly witnessed developments which could kill the lokayukta institution. After the amendment to Karnataka lokayukta Act, the Opposition both the BJP and the JD(S) moved a motion supported by the ruling party members, which include Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, to oust controversial lokayukta...
Cow smuggler shot dead by Haryana Police in encounter
An alleged cow smuggler was shot dead and his accomplice injured in an encounter with the Haryana Police near Thanesar town in the wee hours on Sunday, police said. The deceased has been identified as Abid (27) of Yamunanagar and his injured accomplice is Ashraf (28), also of Yamunanagar, Kurukshetra Superintendent...
