CAG slams Centre for delay in providing food security
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has come down heavily on the Centre for delay in implementation of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) even as it took exception that just 18 States/UTs reported to have started its implementation. Only 51 per cent of the eligible beneficiaries had been identified and...
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Stop boozing, dump bottles before entering Bihar
30 April 2016 | Faizan Ahmad -
Storage capacity of 91 reservoirs plummets further
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My party will sweep all 234 seats: Stalin
30 April 2016 | Kumar Chellappan -
Scribe told to furnish raw footage
30 April 2016 | PNS -
Delhi to penalise parents of underage drivers?
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Netaji memorial to come up in Delhi
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HC orders demolition of Adarsh tower
30 April 2016 | TN RAGHUNATHA
Nominations close in Kerala
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala, Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash, Excise Minister K Babu, Culture Minister KC Joseph, all from the Congress, and former Union Minister O Rajagopal of the BJP were among the top leaders who filed nomination papers for the May 16 Assembly election on Friday,...
Panama list-makers served notices: Govt tells lS
The Government on Friday informed the lok Sabha that action was being taken against all those involved in tax evasion and parking of black money, including the ones named in the Panama case, and the notices issued by the department concerned. The members were told that though action has been taken,...
2 dozen bombs seized by security forces; none held
A day before Bengal goes to polls for the fifth phase on Saturday the security forces on Friday seized two dozen bombs from various clubs in Kolkata. One of these clubs from where 14 bombs were unearthed is situated barely a mile away from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence. Though...
Former diplomats meet to break India-Pak deadlock
Just three days after the India-Pakistan Foreign Secretaries talks on the sidelines of Heart of Asia conference, the retired diplomats of the two countries got together on Friday at a conference to find a way to break the deadlock between India-Pak relations. The conference was attended by former High Commissioners...
Not possible to attain 100% self-reliance in Defence: Parrikar
Members in the lok Sabha Friday raised issues of achieving self-reliance in Defence, low allocation to the important area of family planning and upgradation of human resource, technology, professionalism and services of Doordarshan (DD). Answering during Question Hour in the lower House, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said hundred per cent self-reliance...
RS discusses cancer among children
Issues, including rising number of cases of cancer amongst children in India, threat to strategic interests of India after Nepal and China signed some critical treaties and demilitarisation of Siachen and paid news figured prominently in the Rajya Sabha on Friday. The entire House associated with the issue of cancer amongst...
Uproar in RS over communal tension in J'khand
Opposition and treasury benches clashed with each other in the Rajya Sabha on Friday on the issue of alleged ill-treatment of minorities and rising communal tension in Jharkhand. While the Opposition charged the Central Government with “complacency” in dealing with the situation, the Government said it will seek a report...
