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The Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu today said that skilling of youth should become national movement and urged all stakeholders to participate in a mission- mode to accomplish this objective. Speaking at the National Institute of Personnel Management Personnel (NIPM) 2019 conference on ‘India’s Changing Paradigm: Skills and Entrepreneurship for Global Competitiveness’ in Bengaluru today, he pointed out ...

The Cyclonic Storm ‘HIKAA’ over northeast and adjoining east central Arabian sea moved nearly westwards with a speed of 17 kmph during past 06 hours and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of today, the 23rd September, 2019 over the same region near latitude 20.4°N and longitude 65.7°E, about 490 km west-southwest of Veraval (Gujarat), 520 km south-southwest of Karachi (Pakistan) ...

Petrol prices have soared by Rs 1.59 a litre and diesel by Rs 1.31 in the last six days — the most since daily price revision was introduced in 2017, as a massive strike at Saudi Arabian oil facilities jolted oil markets. Petrol price was on Sunday hiked by 27 paise to Rs 73.62 a litre in the Delhi market ...

An official gave information on the fare of the first private Tejas train running from Lucknow to Delhi. He told that for Lucknow to Delhi, the fare of AC chair car is Rs 1,125 and executive chair car fare is Rs 2,310. For the return journey, it is 1,280 for AC chair car and 2,450 for executive chair car. He ...

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 ...

In continuation of the Indian Navy’s overseas deployment to Africa, Europe and Russia, Indian Naval Ship Tarkash made a port call at Walvis Bay, Namibia today, on 15 Sep 19 for a three days visit. The port call by INS Tarkash at Walvis Bay is a demonstration of India’s warm ties with Namibia and its commitment to enhance operational reach, ...

The names of all NRC applicants have been published online on Saturday, the office of the NRC State Coordinator said here. The names of all the 3.30 crore applicants as per draft NRC and supplementary list of inclusions and exclusions (final NRC) have been published, an official said. The final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which was published on August ...

Bullet train is the dream project of Modi government and the layout of Ahmedabad station has been prepared for this project. The bullet train project MD Achal Khare said that the tender of the project will open in November 2019 and the work of bullet train project will be started by March 2020 and the project will be completed by ...

Joint Military Exercise MAITREE-2019 between India and Thailand will be conducted at Foreign Training Node, Umroi (Meghalaya) from 16-29 Sep 2019. Indian and Royal Thailand Army (RTA) comprising 50 soldiers each will participate in the exercise with an aim to share experience gained during various counter terrorism operations in their respective countries. Exercise MAITREE is an annual training event which ...

A man has been arrested at Delhi airport upon his arrival from the UAE for allegedly smuggling gold worth over Rs 29 lakh by concealing in his trouser, the Customs officials said on Thursday. The Indian, who arrived at the Terminal-3 of IGI Airport on Saturday from Dubai by an Air India flight, was intercepted by the Customs officers after ...