Former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand was arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a law student and sent to 14 days judicial custody by a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur, police said. The BJP leader was arrested by the special investigation team (SIT) of UP police from his ashram here around 8.50 am amid heavy security deployment. He was then produced ...
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FM reviews performance of banks with top management of Public Sector Banks
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs reviewed the performance of the banks, here, today in a meeting with the top management of Public Sector Banks. Today, FM reviewed at length the implementation of series of measures, following extensive stakeholder consultations, announced since 23.8.2019, including consolidation, to support economic growth. A number of these related to the banking ...
Read More »Mamata raises Assam NRC issue at meeting with Amit Shah
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told Union Home Minister Amit Shah that genuine Indians belonging to Bengali, Bihari, Gorkha and Assamese communities were excluded from the NRC in Assam and sought his intervention to ameliorate their miseries. This was conveyed by Banerjee to Shah in her first meeting with the home minister, who assumed the office about ...
Read More »A film will definitely come on Eid: Salman Khan
Superstar Salman Khan says he will definitely come with a movie during Eid next year after his collaboration with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, “In-shaa-allah” got shelved. After it was announced that “In-shaa-allah”– scheduled to release on Eid 2020–won’t be going on floors, Salman had posted a cryptic tweet, writing “Itna mat sochna mere baare mein, dil mein aata hoon.. aur Eid ...
Read More »Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’
President Donald Trump signed his name Wednesday on a newly constructed section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, calling it a “world-class security system” that will be virtually impenetrable. Trump toured a section of the border wall in San Diego’s Otay Mesa area. It was a return trip for the president, who traveled there in March 2018 to see border wall ...
Read More »Lightning kills 18 people in Bihar
At least 18 people were killed in Bihar in lightning strikes during heavy rainfall since Tuesday, officials said here on Wednesday. According to the Bihar Disaster Management Department, lightning claimed altogether 18 lives with Gaya and Kaimur accounting for three casualties each, followed by Patna, Bhojpur, East Champaran, Siwan and Arwal (two each) and Katihar and Jehanabad districts (one each). ...
Read More »Saina crashes out of China Open
Star Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of the China Open Super 1000 tournament after suffering a first round defeat to Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan in the women’s singles on Wednesday. The London Olympic bronze medallist lost 10-21 17-21 at the hands of the World No. 19 Ongbamrungphan in a match that lasted for 45 minutes. It was the former world ...
Read More »Govt to hold key meeting regarding Air India future today
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a big meeting today (September 18) regarding the disinvestment of Air India, the public sector airline. Air India has incurred a huge loss of Rs 8,400 crore in the financial year 2018-19. These figures have recently been made public. In such a situation, this meeting of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is considered important. If ...
Read More »44-yr-old businessman shot dead in Delhi’s Jyoti Nagar
A 44-year-old businessman was shot dead allegedly by two unidentified bike-borne assailants after a scuffle broke out between them in northeast Delhi’s Jyoti Nagar area, police said on Tuesday. The victim, identified as Rajul Gupta, owned an electronic goods showroom in Jyoti Nagar. The incident took place outside his house on Monday night when Gupta was returning home after work, ...
Read More »Dengue cases on the rise, Uttarakhand govt should declare epidemic: Cong
The Congress on Tuesday urged the governor to direct the Uttarakhand government to declare dengue an epidemic in the state in view of a large number of cases of the vector-borne disease. Over 1,700 dengue cases have been reported so far, of which eight people have died, according to the state health department. State Congress chief Pritam Singh led a ...
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