RSS chief pitches for conversation on reservation in harmonious atmosphere
There should be conversation in harmonious atmosphere between those in favour of reservation and those against it, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Sunday. Bhagwat said he had spoken on reservation earlier as well, but it created a lot of noise and the whole discussion diverted from the actual issue. Those who...
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10 States yet to implement Mental Health Act
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MoS Sanjay Dhotre leaves for 5-day visit to Baltic countries
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CBI books Nath’s kin Puris for fraud
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Cong expresses concern over economy ‘slowdown’
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Amit Shah defends law criminalising triple talaq
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Two Hindu couples from Karachi travel to Guj to get married
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Venkaiah Naidu holds talks with Lithuanian Prez
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Modi calls on Bhutanese King
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called on Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and exchanged views on taking the “exemplary” India-Bhutan partnership forward. A traditional Chipdrel procession and welcome ceremony was held at the Tashichhodzong Palace here for Prime Minister Modi before his audience with the Bhutanese King and his...
Prez opens Presidential Guest House Jal Kiran in Mumbai
President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the Presidential Guest House ‘Jal Kiran’ at Raj Bhavan here on Saturday. The Guest House will serve as the accommodation for the President of India and the Prime Minister of India during their visits to Mumbai. Mrs Savita Kovind, wife of the President, Governor CH Vidyasagar Rao,...
Speeding Jaguar kills 2 Bangladeshis in Kolkata
Late night rash driving claimed more lives in Kolkata even as city’s civil society strongly condemned the “highly infectious spoilt brat syndrome,” demanding stringent laws for reckless driving. A day after BJP MP Rupa Ganguli’s son was arrested for rash and negligent driving with his car literally piercing through a concretewall...
Rain batters Kolkata, cripples normal life
Life was thrown out of gear in most parts of the metropolis on Saturday, following torrential rain that led to waterlogging in low-lying areas and snapped road links at several places. The city received 186.1 mm rainfall in the past 24 hours till around noon on Saturday, the Regional Meteorological Centre...
Flash floods hit Kathua, Samba; 15 rescued
Flash floods following heavy rainfall hit Kathua and Samba districts of Jammu region where a man was feared drowned and 15 people, most of them belonging to a nomadic community, were rescued on Saturday, officials said. Two siblings were washed away on Saturday morning when they tried to cross an overflowing...
87 villages in AP affected by Krishna floods, toll rises to 2
Tens of villages and hundreds of acres of farm land remained under a sheet of water in Krishna and Guntur districts even as the flood fury in river Krishna was abating, while the toll in the deluge climbed to two with the death of an 11-year-old girl. The body of the...
Kerala a ticking time bomb where deluge routine affair
Flood and fury, deluges, landslides, death and destruction have become annual rituals in Kerala, once known as God’s Own Country. Events of the last two years have proved that the State is anything but the sobriquet. B Viju, a Kochi based journalist who had reported extensively about the devastating floods of...
