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No one dies in Pakistan during Balakot attack in feb : Sushma

Ending the propaganda BJP workers carried over social media External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Thursday that No Pakistani soldier or civilian died in the air strike on a terror camp at Balakot in Pakistan in February,   Addressing women BJP workers here, she said the Indian military was given a “free hand” in Read More…
Business Companies Industries Market

Jet airways collapse turned minting opportunity for rivals

Hundreds of Jet’s retrenched employees protested at different locations in the country, demanding immediate government intervention to end the crisis.   As rival airlines benefited from the fall of Jet, some of its staffers protesting at Jantar Mantar along with their families demanded to know who was benefiting from the crisis. “Whose gain is it Read More…
Politics Votes & Polls

Second Phase 95 seats completed in peaceful manner : Election Commission

Moderate to high voter turnout was recorded in the 95 constituencies in 11 states and Puducherry that went to polls in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections which were marred by sporadic incidents of violence in West Bengal and Manipur and EVM glitches.   There were also reports of EVM malfunctioning in some seats. Read More…
Social Women

Gagandeep Kang is the first woman Fellow of the Royal Society working in India,

Gagandeep Kang, a seasoned Indian biologist and a professor at Christian Medical College, Vellore has become the first Indian woman scientist to be elected as the Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).   Kang played instrumental role in developing two indigenous vaccines against rotavirus and typhoid.   “Out of 1,600 odd living Fellows (of the Read More…
National Politics Votes & Polls

Undeterred 21 Parties to approach SC again for 50% VVPAT verification

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who Saturday met Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora to raise the issue of EVM malfunctioning, said 21 political parties have demanded verification of VVPAT paper trails of 50 per cent of the EVMs.    Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday rallied opposition leaders over alleged Read More…
Legal Market Politics South India

Income Tax chief Balakrishnan political talk over raids invokes wrath of Opposition

KPCC also disapproved of the letter by Balakrishnan to ECI in which he termed the recent protest by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy and other leaders of State government as “Mamata Bannerjee tactics”.   The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking the transfer of Principal Chief Commissioner Read More…
Politics Votes & Polls

VVPAT Counting row : We should master technology and not to be its slave Naidu to EC

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Sunday said his technology advisor Hari Prasad Vemuru, whose presence in TDP’s delegation to the Election Commission was objected to by the poll panel, was a whistle-blower and not a thief.   “Yesterday we met the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and showed him how EVMs were not functioning Read More…