Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:38:50
The Supreme Court Thursday said that it would consider listing of pleas seeking review of its verdict in the Rafale case.
The apex court on December 14 last year dismissed a clutch of PILs, including the one filed by former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and lawyer Prashant Bhushan, saying there was "no occasion to doubt" the decision-making process of the Centre in the procure
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:35:49
Saudi Arabis' Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on February 20 ordered the release of 850 Indian prisoners lodged in his country's jails on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's request as the two leaders held extensive talks here, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.
After the talks, it was also announced that India has decided to extend e-Visa facility to Saudi nationals.
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:33:31
A six-year-old boy trapped in a 200 feet deep borewell in Pune district was rescued Thursday after a 16-hour-long operation involving police and disaster response personnel.
A crowd looked on as National Disaster Response Force and police officials carried six-year-old Ravi Pandit Bhil, who was stuck at a depth of 10 feet.
Ravi, son of a road construction worker, fell into the borewell Wedne
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:30:08
The farmers' long march from Nashik to Mumbai will continue after their leaders' late night parleys with Maharashtra government to address their demands remained inconclusive, the march organisers said Thursday.
Farmers have embarked on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the last 12 months to protest against what they termed as the "betrayal" of peasants by the BJP gove
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:26:46
Amid calls for boycott, the clamour for tickets for the marquee ODI World Cup clash between India and Pakistan in Manchester on June 16 has reached a crescendo, with more than 400,000 applicants for the 25,000 seater Old Trafford stadium.
Top India cricketers like Harbhajan Singh has called for boycott of the Pakistan group league encounter while veterans such as Chetan Chauhan wants India to p
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:24:32
At least 70 people were killed as a massive fire on Wednesday night ripped through several multi-storey buildings, many of them housing chemical and plastic warehouses in a crammed old part of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.
The fire broke out at a chemical warehouse on the ground floor of a five-storey building named Hazi Wahed Mansion behind a mosque in Old Dhaka's congested Chawkbazar area an
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:11:45
Karnataka on Wednesday launched a service that allows agricultural landowners to have their land converted for non-agricultural use in a hassle-free, online system.
This affidavit-based land conversion system will significantly cut delays in the process, Revenue Minister RV Deshpande said after launching the service. “I believe Karnataka is the first Indian state to introduce something like th
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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:22:27
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday increased India's Haj quota by 25,000, the third hike in three years, taking the number of pilgrims from the country who can perform Haj to 2 lakh.
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Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:31:54
In a touching gesture, a Muslim lady IAS has set an example by adopting daughters of two Pulwama martyrs killed in ghastly terror attack.
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