80 injured in South African train collision
Johannesburg, July 9 (IANS) At least 80 people were injured when two passenger trains collided near Berea suburb in South African's Durban city Tuesday evening, authorities said. Emergency Service...
View ArticleUttar Pradesh approves to recruit five lakh employees
Lucknow, July 9 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh has lifted a long-standing ban on fresh recruitments in the state, opening avenues for five lakh new jobs, including 1.38 lakh in the police force, an official...
View ArticleThree Punjab teachers suspended after minor's rape
Chandigarh, July 9 (IANS) Three women teachers of a government school in Punjab's Ludhiana district were suspended Wednesday following the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl student in the school...
View ArticleMHA orders probe into leaked IB report on NGOs
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The home ministry Wednesday ordered an inquiry into the leakage of an IB report that claimed some NGOs and their international donors are planning to target many fresh...
View ArticleMaharashtra assembly polls: SP eyes Congress-NCP fold
Mumbai, July 9 (IANS) A full 10 years after it broke away from the Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra, the Samajwadi Party is keen to rebuild the partnership for the ensuing assembly elections, a...
View ArticleDeclare drought: opposition; government says taking steps
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The central government Wednesday assured it will take all steps to mitigate the effects that may occur owing to deficient monsoon, in response to opposition's demand to...
View ArticleTop LeT guerrilla killed in Kashmir
Srinagar, July 9 (IANS) A top foreign guerrilla of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit was Wednesday killed in a gunfight with security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir in which a soldier...
View ArticleGang rape case filed in Ghaziabad
Ghaziabad, July 9 (IANS) Police here Wednesday said they have filed a case of gang rape based on the complaint of a woman who said she was kidnapped, raped by four men and later dumped near a park....
View ArticleOver 1.5 lakh pilgrims make Amarnath Yatra
Srinagar, July 9 (IANS) More than 1.5 lakh pilgrims have finished the Amarnath Yatra that started here June 28. An official statement here Wednesday said: "As many as 12,345 devotees paid their...
View ArticleModi loyalist Amit Shah is BJP's new chief (Intro Roundup)
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) After weeks of speculation, Amit Shah, a Narendra Modi loyalist who scripted the BJP's spectacular electoral win in Uttar Pradesh, was Wednesday named its new president, with...
View ArticleIndia earned 40 mn euro launching foreign satellites
Chennai, July 9 (IANS) India has earned around 40 million euros launching 15 foreign satellites from 2011 till date, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said Wednesday. In a written reply...
View ArticleSunny Thursday morning in Delhi
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) It was a sunny Thursday morning in Delhi with a minimum temperature of 30.9 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season's average. The Met Office has forecast a partly...
View ArticleTotal sanitation targeted by 2019, budget outlay hiked
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The NDA government intends to cover every house under total sanitation by 2019 under the Swatchh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission), Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said...
View ArticleHome ministry outlay hiked by 15 percent
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The home ministry was Thursday allocated Rs.65,745 crore in the 2014-15 budget, marking a 15 percent increase over revised budget estimates of the last fiscal. Finance...
View ArticleDelhi Police to get Rs.5,029 crore
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) The central government Thursday allocated Rs.5,029.19 crore to Delhi Police for improving training facilities, installation of traffic signals and construction of houses for...
View ArticleGanga conservation in Jaitley's list of priorities
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Cleaning Ganga, linking of rivers and beautification of river banks were on top of the agenda of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who set aside Rs.2,037 crore for an integrated...
View ArticleSunita Narain questions allocation on Ganga conservation
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) Environmentalist Sunita Narain Thursday raised questions on allocations on clean energy and Ganga conservation that were announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his...
View ArticleRaman Singh thanks centre for 'IIT gift'
Raipur, July 10 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Thursday thanked both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for doling out the "much-needed" Indian Institute of...
View ArticleTwo human traffickers get four year jail term
New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) A court here Thursday sentenced two men, convicted for a trafficking a girl for prostitution, to four years rigorous imprisonment. The additional sessions judge, Tis Hazari,...
View ArticleFive die of carbon monoxide poisoning in South Africa
Johannesburg, July 11 (IANS) Five people, including four children, died in two incidents of carbon monoxide poisoning here Thursday, authorities said. In one incident, a two-month old girl, a...
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