Centre committed to ensuring media freedom: Javadekar
: Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar on Friday said the BJP-led Government at the Centre was committed to ensuring media freedom and recalled party leaders' fight against Emergency in 1975 to protect press freedom. Noting that there are more than one lakh publications, over 700 TV channels, many web...
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Army chief orders commanders to stay on toes
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Man beaten to death while grazing cattle in Rajasthan
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Techie among 4 thrashed by mobs on suspicion of being child-lifters
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No arrests yet, gangrape victim’s family refuses to take body
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MSP merger possible only after taking Sena into confidence, says Maha CM
31 August 2019 | TN RAGHUNATHA -
Delhi Police team in plain clothes mistaken for ‘child lifters' in UP village
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Milk ATM new trend in TN
31 August 2019 | Kumar Chellappan
Bengal BJP chief heckled by TMC men
Alleged Trinamool workers on Friday attacked the vehicle of Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh and heckled him even as he tried to meet the public at the Lake Town area of northern Kolkata, sources said. Ghosh who had recently started a public relation exercise under a scheme called “Chai pe Charcha,”...
WB passes Anti-lynching Bill
The Mamata Banerjee Government on Friday took the effective step to curb mob lynching by passing the Anti-lynching Bill. After this move, Bengal became the third State after Manipur and Rajasthan to pass the Anti-lynching Bill. While both the Congress and the Left supported the Bill the BJP abstained alleging the...
Shivakumar cries conspiracy as ED summons him to Delhi
Senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Friday said the ED has issued fresh summons asking him to appear before it in a money laundering case and termed the action a 'conspiracy' to defame him and his party. The former Karnataka minister said the Enforcement Directorate has asked him to appear before...
Five Bangladeshis arrested in Bihar
: Five Bangladesh nationals have been arrested here while trying to cross over to their native country, a senior Border Security Force (BSF) official said. The Bangladeshis, all residents of Thakurgaon district of the neighbouring country, claimed that they have been eking out a living at Kulgam in Jammu and Kashmir...
Malegaon blast victim, media oppose NIA plea for in-camera trial
A 2008 Malegoan blast victim on Friday opposed the prosecution's plea to the special anti-terror court here to hold in camera trial of the "communally sensitive" case, saying terror has no religion. "A terrorist is a terrorist. Why make it communal? What has the terror got to do with religion?" said...
Assam on edge a day before publication of NRC
Nabarun Guha shuffles uneasily in his chair, signs of worry writ large on his face. The journalist has visited the NRC Sewa Kendra (NSK) twice for hearing after his name did not appear in the interim and final draft, and is uncertain whether he will be able to make it to...
2 toddlers die in govt-run orphanage, 8 others taken ill, probe ordered
Two toddlers died and eight others were taken ill at a Government-run orphanage, prompting the district administration to order a probe. The authorities have taken sample of the milk being fed to children at the Rajkiya Shishu Sadan here, Mathura District Magistrate Sarvagya Ram Mishra said on Friday. Ten children of then...
