Time to end neglect of Army's sword arm
India has lost more soldiers in Jammu & Kashmir and the North-East than in all the wars it has fought. Eighty per cent of these casualties are from the infantry Why has the sword arm of the Indian Army, its infantry, been neglected for 13 yearsIJ Only this month, due to...
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Going after thieves
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All thumbs
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Dividend boost for investors
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Politicisation of scams, its perils
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The tussle in the North-East
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Gulal sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by widows at Vrindavan.
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Yogi government has decided to pay salary to its 20 lakh staff on the occasion of holi
28 February 2018 | PNS
Samajwadi Party is tying up with smaller caste-based parties
Taking a cue from the winning formula adopted by the BJP for 2017 Assembly elections where it co-opted the most backward castes (MBCs) and forged an alliance with smaller caste-based parties, the Samajwadi Party is also tying up with smaller caste-based parties. Realisation has dawned on the party that it is...
STF got inputs about an organised gang working in western UP
Sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) claimed to have busted an arms supply syndicate following the arrest of former Samajwadi Party MlA from Charra (Aligarh) Rakesh Singh. A foreign-made pistol was recovered from his possession on Monday night. DGP OP Singh said that on Monday evening, the STF got inputs about an organised gang...
The party was contesting on the plank of development : Yogi Adityanath
Predicting an easy win for Bharatiya Janata Party in the byelections, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the party was contesting on the plank of development as it believed that divisive politics only broght about poverty and backwardness. Yogi addressed a series of election rallies in Kampiarganj and Sahajanwa in Gorakhpur on...
The UP Congress expelled party leader Sanjay Dikshit
The Uttar Pradesh Congress finally expelled party leader Sanjay Dikshit for attacking former BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who recently joined Congress in New Delhi. Earlier, the party had issued a show-cause notice to Dikshit but he refused to reply and instead went to the media and launched another scathing attack on...
State asks Centre for more rice
As PDS beneficiaries prefer rice to wheat in Odisha, the State Government has asked the Centre to allocate rice equal to the State’s need under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). Chief Secretary AP Padhi wrote a letter to Union Food and Public Distribution Secretary Ravikant in this regard on Tuesday. Padhi...
NHRC to reopen rights violation cases
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decided to re-open the closed cases pertaining to human rights violation in Salandi-Nalia and Reba-Kapali Sanskar Yojana in Bhadrak district of Odisha. In its latest order NHRC said, “In order to remove the confusion, it may be appropriate to hear the complainant Radhakanta Tripathy...
Banks' performances dismal in Baleswar
A district-level quarterly review meeting of bankers was held under the chairmanship of district Collector Ramesh Rout. Speaking on the occasion, Baleswar MP RK Jena, besides expressing concern over recent scam in the case of PNB, urged all the banks to be vigilant before lending and strengthening audit system in the...
