Gaya, Aug 9: Tearing into the ruling Nitish Kumar- Lalu Prasad alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked the people of Bihar to use the upcoming assembly polls as an opportunity to "free themselves from the jungle raaj" by electing a BJP-led government to and develop and modernise the state. "You have suffered their arrogance, deceipt and exploitation for the last 25 years. Do you want
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New Delhi/Bhopal, Aug 9: In a latest update, seventy Vyapam scam accused who are lodged in Gwalior Jail of Madhya Pradesh have written to President Pranab Mukherjee requesting him to either grant them bail or allow them "iccha mrityu" (suicide by legal sanction). Apart from the President, the letter has also been sent to Prime Minister, Home Minister, NHRC and Jabalpur High Court. In the letter to
New Delhi, Aug 8: Broadcast Editors' Association today expressed concern over what it said apparent tendency among governments, both at Centre and in some states, to serve notices on media organisations in a selective manner, against the backdrop of I&B ministry's show-cause notices to three news channels over coverage of Yaqub Memon's hanging. The apex body of editors of news channels in India
New Delhi, Aug 8: Insisting that cow should be protected, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said even the Mughals were aware of the fact that if they had to rule then an "open support to cow slaughter" would not be feasible while the Britishers failed to understand this aspect. The senior BJP leader said that as a Home Minister he has ensured that cattle smuggling to Bangladesh was checked
New Delhi, Aug 8: On July 30, the usually combative Uma Bharti, the union minister for water resources, exhibited a diffident demeanor in the Lok Sabha when she gave out that China may construct three more hydropower projects on the Brahmaputra in Tibet (called Yarlung Tsangpo there) under its recently announced 12th Five Year Plan. The minister added two other important facts. First, she
New Delhi, Aug 8: 526 cases of sexual harassment of women at workplaces were reported during 2014, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi revealed on Friday. In a written reply at Lok Sabha, Gandhi said 57 cases were reported at office premises and 469 cases were registered at other places related to work during 2014. She said the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention
New Delhi, Aug 7: India will boycott a Commonwealth Parliamentary Union meeting in Islamabad next month in protest against Pakistan not inviting the Speaker of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, a decision that comes in the midst of tensions over two terror attacks in Punjab and J and K. "A meeting of Speakers of all states here today unanimously decided that India will boycott the meeting of the CPU if
Chennai, Aug 7: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today took up with Prime Minister Narendra Modi a slew of issues concerning her state, ranging from inter-state river disputes to the GST rollout, besides the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. Jayalalithaa presented a detailed memorandum to Modi during their 50-minute luncheon meeting at her Poes Garden residence here. She called for retrieval of
Mumbai, Aug 7: The Maharashtra government has denied that absconding mafia don Mushtaque alias Tiger Memon allegedly called up his mother and threatened to avenge his brother Yakub Memon's hanging last week, top officials said here on Friday. The Mumbai police, too, denied any such conversation as having taken place, as reported by a leading financial daily. "We want to clarify that we don't have
New Delhi, Aug 7: Accusing External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj of keeping her ministry in dark over Lalitgate, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday launched a blistering attack on the former over her emotional clarification in the Lok Sabha yesterday, and said that Sonia Gandhi would have never done the same thing. "It was a very nice speech, hollow, but it sounded very nice. Sushma