Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:47:52
The CID will share the details of its probe into the killing of rationalist M M Kalburgi with the Special Investigation Team probing the Gauri Lankesh case, a top official said today.
Gauri was shot dead outside her house by unidentified men who came on a motorcycle on September 5. The modus operandi bore a grim resemblance to the way rationalists Govind Pansare, Narendra Dabholkar and Kalburgi
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Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:41:29
A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to “sink” Japan and reduce the United States to “ashes and darkness” for supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test.
The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North’s external ties and propaganda, also called for the breakup of the Security Council, which it ca
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Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:34:35
All 6,092 gram panchayats in Karnataka will get 100 Mbps broadband internet connectivity by November, said Aruna Sundararajan, Telecommunication Secretary here on Thursday. At present, 643 villages have WiFi connectivity, where people can access free internet up to 100 Mbps per day per user.
“Karnataka can act as a role model for the rest of the states. Here the data consumption is 700-800 MB p
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Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:31:43
Former finance minister P Chidambaram today said the CBI should be questioning him instead of harassing his son Karti in the Aircel-Maxis case and accused the probe agency of spreading misinformation.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had called Karti for questioning yesterday in connection with the foreign investment clearance given in the Aircel-Maxis deal in 2006 when his father Chidambara
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Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:25:43
In another move to make India digital, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday asserted that the Government is planning to link the driving licence with the Aadhar card.
Addressing the gathering at the Digital Haryana Summit 2017, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the Aadhar is a digital, not a physical identity and a digital identity confirms the physical identity.
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Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:24:00
Slamming the bullet train project, NDA ally Shiv Sena today said the project was not a dream of the common man but that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Sena, in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana', sought to know if the Ahmedabad-Mumbai high speed train project really fits into the needs of the country.
The criticism came on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese
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Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:19:22
Altogether 230 students, including 150 girls, were taken ill allegedly after eating food in different schools in Odisha's Malkangiri and Kalahandi districts, officials said today.
Around 150 girls of a government-run residential school fell ill with symptoms of food-poisoning at Badapada in remote Chitrakonda area of Malkangiri allegedly after eating breakfast today, said Ramkrishna Gond, Proje
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Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:17:23
Citing example of refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka residing in India, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday tore into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Government over sending the Rohingya Muslims back to Myanmar, saying that Rohingya refugess should be allowed to take shelter in the country just like other refugees are.
Owaisi also mention
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