India, USA conduct marine anti-terrorism training in Gujarat
As part of bilateral security ties under the Anti-Terrorism Assistance pact between India and the USA, Maritime Interdiction of Terrorism training was conducted at Indian Coast Guard station Okha in Devbhoomi Dwarka district from September 11 to 29 by the Anti-Terrorism Assistance, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the USA. The inclusion of...
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Marginal drop in death rate of kids under 1 year
30 September 2017 | PNS -
louis Berger bribery case: CBI registers FIR
30 September 2017 | PNS -
Crime Branch begins probe in BHU violence
30 September 2017 | PTI -
Full support to B'desh in dealing with influx of Rohingyas: India
30 September 2017 | PNS -
'Rally for Rivers': Industries responsible for preventing filth from entering rivers
30 September 2017 | Monika Malik -
Mohan Bhagwat to give Vedic education awards
30 September 2017 | PNS -
Yasin Malik arrested
30 September 2017 | IANS
Six held for gang-rape in Bikaner
Six persons have been arrested for gang-raping a 28-year-old woman after she was kidnapped near Bikaner this week, police said on Friday. "She reported the crime on September 26. During investigation, we found that eight persons were involved. We have arrested six of them," Bikaner Superintendent of Police S.S. Godara told IANS. As...
Dera chief's former driver Khatta Singh moves High Court
Jailed Dera Sacha Sauda sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s former driver Khatta Singh on Friday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking to record a fresh statement into the case of killing of dera chief former manager Ranjit Singh. A special CBI court had on September 25 dismissed a...
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india-EU Summit talks from Oct 5 to 7 New Delhi: The 14th India-European Union Summit talks will take place in New Delhi from 5- 7 October during which Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the President of the European Council, Donald Franciszek Tusk and the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker will...
CNG, PNG bills likely to go up now as Govt hikes natural gas price
Now your bills of piped domestic cooking gas (PNG) and auto fuel in compressed natural gas (CNG) are likely to go up from October 1 as the domestic natural gas price has risen over 16 per cent to $2.89 per mmBtu in line with international rates for the first time...
EESl to procure 10,000 E-vehicles from Tata Motors
State-run Energy Efficiency Services ltd (EESl) on Friday said it will procure 10,000 electric vehicles from Tata Motors after a competitive bidding. Tata Motors will supply the electric vehicles (EVs) in two phases with 500 e-cars in the first phase in November 2017 and the remaining 9,500 EVs in the...
Fiscal deficit touches 96.1% of budget estimate at Aug-end
India’s fiscal deficit at August-end touched 96.1 per cent of the budget estimate for 2017-18, mainly due to rise in expenditure. In absolute terms, the fiscal deficit - difference between expenditure and revenue - was Rs 5.25 lakh crore during April-August, 2017-18, according to the data of Controller General of...
FM: Slew of measures taken to better tax administration
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the Government has taken a slew of measures in the last 2-3 years to increase transparency and fairness in the tax administration. He was addressing the second meeting of the parliamentary consultative committee attached to the finance ministry on ‘Initiatives of IT Department’...