US Health Secretary resigns over plane scandal
US President Donald Trump's embattled Health Secretary Tom Price has resigned amid a raging scandal over his use of expensive private planes for official travel, with the media speculating the names of two Indian-Americans as possible candidates to replace him. Price, 62, resigned yesterday, saying he regretted that "recent events have...
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Death toll in Ephinstone stampede in Mumbai rises to 23
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Tillerson in China to pile pressure on North Korea
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Veteran actor Tom Alter dead at 67
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Bullet train project will be demonetisation-like move: PC
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Pak-trained al-Qaeda member convicted of aiding terrorist activities
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15 Indians' death sentence commuted to life term by Kuwaiti Emir: Swaraj
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Pak Army says 3 persons killed in firing by Indian troops
30 September 2017 | PTI
200 officers to be relocated to strengthen ground operations: Piyush Goyal
A day after 22 people died in a stampede on a railway foot overbridge in Mumbai, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that 200 officers will be relocated from headquarters as field staff to enhance ground operations and that additional escalators are being sanctioned at crowded Mumbai stations. "200 officers...
BSF unearths tunnel being dug from Pak side in Jammu
The Border Security Force (BSF) today unearthed a 14-feet long tunnel, which was being dug from the Pakistani side along the international border and recovered "war-like" store in Arnia sector here, officials said. "An under-construction tunnel was found during sanitisation operation along the international border between Vikram and Patel posts near...
People living on China border our strategic assets, should not migrate: Rajnath
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said today that people living along the China border were the country's "strategic assets", and directed the frontier guarding force ITBP to ensure that they did not migrate as this would put India's security at risk. Addressing locals and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) troops at the 1st...
Why did 22 innocents die?
Twenty-two people including a child were killed and over 39 others seriously injured in a rush-hour stampede in Mumbai that broke out when thousands took a narrow foot overbridge (FOB) connecting the Parel and Elphinstone Railway Stations in South-central Mumbai on Friday. The Railway Ministry has ordered a probe into the...
Tragedy foretold but not averted
The tragedy at rail foot overbridge (FOB) connected to Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai was waiting to happen. From Twitterati to CAG to Members of Parliament and commoners, they all had warned authorities, including the incumbent Railway Minister Piyush Goyal and his predecessor Suresh Prabhu, about the impending stampede. The Railways...
BSF officer, DM hustle arms licences
A BSF Commandant colluded with a District Magistrate and the owner of a gun shop to provide private arms licences to the jawans of the paramilitary force for a gratification of Rs 12,000 per licence. After unearthing the shocking wheeling and dealing, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked...
KCR to test public mood in Nalgonda bypoll waters
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has come up with a novel idea to test the pulse of the people in the State. He has reportedly made his party’s member of lok Sabha from Nalgonda G Sukhinder Reddy resign to pave the way for a by-election. Sukhinder Reddy, who was elected...
