Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:11:22
"Strict action including filing criminal cases would be taken against those who were involved in the case of linking Aadhaar number with multiple PDS cards to issue bogus cards, and erring officials will also not be spared," said Food & Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader.
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:08:34
Food & Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader has stated that the new system of applying online for public distribution system (PDS) cards would be implemented probably in January, as the entire process is being streamlined, and the process of issuing of PDS cards would be brought under 'Sakala' scheme for the first time in the country.
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 13:04:31
The Kingdom’s newly designed currency will go into circulation on Dec. 26 in denominations of SR500, SR100, SR50, SR10 and SR5 with coins of different values including SR2 and SR1.
The new bills commemorating the era of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman represent the sixth issue of Saudi banknotes and coins, which were launched on Tuesday night.
“The new banknotes and coins w
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:56:41
The updated UAE Fire and Life Safety Code of Practice will ban cooking gas cylinders in all new buildings, a senior official told Gulf News on Wednesday.
New buildings will not be issued permits if they allow occupants to use LPG cylinders, in an attempt to reduce fire accidents caused by gas leakage and cylinder explosions, said Lt Col Jamal Ahmad Ebrahim, director of Preventive Safety Departm
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:51:23
Former captain Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday said current India skipper Virat Kohli's aggression on and off the pitch was two times more than his own aggression when he led the national cricket team.
"Virat's aggression is two times more than mine," Ganguly told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of Sourav Ganguly Foundation and Sourav Ganguly Cricket School.
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:45:05
While the opposition continued to attack the government on demonetisation and the alleged scam involving Minister of State for Home Kiran Rijiju, the Bharatiya Janata Party raised the Agusta Westland scam in parliament.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, however, gave a notice in the Rajya Sabha on the "hardships faced by farmers due to demonetisation".
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:42:44
Three persons were killed and 10 others injured when a house collapsed in suburban Mankhurd today, a fire brigade official said.
Prima facie, the mishap took place in the ground plus one-storey structure at around 6.15 AM due to a fire that broke out inside the house near MHADA colony in Mankhurd, he said.
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:41:00
Vladimir Putin's first official visit to a G-7 country since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea is starting in somewhat customary fashion: He is arriving late.
The Russian president was due in western Japan on Thursday for talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but his flight was behind schedule. Japanese media reported he would arrive about three hours late.
During two days of talks
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Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:36:13
Training its guns on the Centre for counter-attacking Rahul Gandhi’s “corrupt” comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi by saying that nobody takes the former seriously, the Congress Party on Thursday said that it is the Bharatiya Janata Partywhich does not take its ministers seriously and is blabbering because they are scared of Gandhi.
“BJP does not take their own ministers’ words seriously. T
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