With sister Priyanka Gandhi by his side, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday filed his nomination from Wayanad in Kerala and said he is fighting the Lok Sabha polls from a second seat in the south besides the party bastion Amethi in the north to send a message of unity and that “India is one”. In a bid to reach out ...
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IGNOU likely to start four new online courses
IGNOU is likely to start four online courses from July even as the varsity has identified 85 online programmes. The varsity will start MA in Hindi and three certificate programmes after receiving approval from the University Grants Commission, Indira Gandhi National Open University’s (IGNOU) vice-chancellor Professor Nageshwar Rao said. The open university has submitted a proposal to the UGC and ...
Read More »Congress manifesto full of lies: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tore into the Congress, terming its manifesto as a “hypocrisy document” which was “full of lies”. Addressing his second rally in Arunachal Pradesh within a week, the prime minister cited the Congress manifesto for the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, and said it had promised that every house would have electricity by 2009. “However, till ...
Read More »Google’s Gmail turns 15
Google’s email service Gmail that has nearly 1.5 billion monthly active users turned 15 on Monday. Created by Paul Buchheit on April 1, 2004, Gmail started with an initial storage capacity of one gigabyte per user. Today, Gmail allows 15GB free storage. Users can receive emails up to 50MB in size, including attachments, while they can send emails up to ...
Read More »PM Modi to address rally in Dehradun on April 5
With the first phase of elections on April 11 in Uttarakhand, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh addressed several meetings in Pithoragarh, Gopeshwar, Kotdwar and Jhabeda (Roorkee) on behalf of Bharatiya Janata Party. According to the information, PM Narendra Modi will address the election rally in Dehradun on Friday (April 05). The party’s state vice-president Jyotiprasad Gairola told here that star ...
Read More »Highest collection of GST in F.Y 2018-19 recorded in March
Total Gross GST revenue collected in the month of March, 2019 is Rs. 1,06,577 crore of which CGST is Rs. 20,353 crore, SGST is Rs.27,520 crore, IGST is Rs.50,418 crore (including Rs. 23,521crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs. 8,286 crore (including Rs. 891crore collected on imports). The total number of GSTR 3B Returns filed for the month of ...
Read More »Indian satellite destruction created 400 pieces of debris, endangering ISS: NASA
The head of NASA Tuesday branded India’s destruction of one of its satellites a “terrible thing” that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Jim Bridenstine was addressing employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration five days after India shot down a low-orbiting satellite in a missile ...
Read More »Salman Khan to start shooting for ‘Dabangg 3’
Superstar Salman Khan and his brother, actor Arbaaz Khan, on Monday started the shooting for their film “Dabangg 3”. The duo, who landed in Indore on Sunday, took to Twitter to share the production details of the film, third in the “Dabangg” franchise. The film, to be directed by choreographer-filmmaker Prabhudeva, will have Salman, 53, reprising his role of Chulbul ...
Read More »Rahul Gandhi refused to forge alliance with AAP for LS polls: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi has refused to forge an alliance with the AAP for the Lok Sabha polls in the national capital. Talking to reporters at the airport here, the AAP leader said he had met Gandhi recently and the Congress leader had refused to join hands with the AAP . Asked ...
Read More »International kidney racket busted, 3 held
An international kidney racket was busted with the arrest of three people who allegedly lured a 33-year-old man from Hyderabad and got his kidney removed in Turkey after promising to pay Rs 20 lakh, police said Monday. Amrish Prathap, kingpin of the crime, and his two accomplices, Sandeep Kumar alias Rohan Malik and a 37-year-old woman, were arrested from Delhi ...
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