Agartala, Nov 17 (IANS) Over a month-long hectic campaign for by-polls to two Tripura assembly seats ended on Thursday evening with opposition parties and ruling Left treating these by-elections as “prestigious electoral battle”. The Election…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The government on Thursday reiterated that the termination clause in the India-Japan civil nuclear agreement signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Tokyo last week is in line with…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) India has summoned a senior official of the Pakistan High Commission and issued a demarche on continued violation of ceasefire along the Line of Control – in the third such…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) India has taken up with China the issue of visa denial to the manager of the Indian badminton squad, a senior official said on Thursday. “This matter has been brought…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha could not conduct any meaningful business on Thursday as the opposition remained adamant on the demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi be present during the debate on…
Kolkata, Nov 17 (IANS) Communist Party of India-Marxist West Bengal unit Secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra was allegedly heckled by ruling Trinamool Congress workers in East Midnapore district’s Haldiaon on Thursday. Mishra was attending a political…
Shillong, Nov 17 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Thursday asked the Congress to be clear about the allegations it wants to make against the central government on the issue of…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency is inspired by political and not economic considerations, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday. Ramesh told the media that…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday said the government’s move of demonetisation has “killed more people than Pakistani-backed terrorism”. Azad’s observation came as the…
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 17 (IANS) Eight days after demonetisation, Kerala State Finance Minister Thomas Issac said the the state’s revenue would drop by half, but that payment of salaries would not be affected. Speaking to reporters…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Declaring there was no plan to re-monetise Rs 1,000 notes, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said the decision to reduce the exchange limit for demonetised notes to Rs 2,000…
Agartala/Silchar, Nov 17 (IANS) A rail blockade that snapped the crucial rail link of Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and southern Assam in the north-east with the rest of the country since November 15 was withdrawn on…
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, Nov 17 (IANS) Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s demonetisation move turning out to be a self goal for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in poll bound Uttar Pradesh? Even as most…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Delhi High Court to decide on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea to quash the defamation proceedings against him by Amit Sibal –…
Chennai, Nov 17 (IANS) Tamil Nadu’s Leader of Opposition in Tamil Nadu M.K.Stalin on Thursday blamed the AIADMK government for not putting forth a strong argument in the Supreme Court in favour of Jallikattu, or…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday asked the government to scrap the demonetisation decision in three days or face a revolt. Addressing…
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New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan on Thursday offered to tender an unconditional apology to the Bulandshahr gangrape victims for saying it was a political conspiracy. A…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (UNI) A senior Janata Dal-United leader on Thursday said the party supported the Modi government’s demonetisation move but had reservations only over its implementation. “As far as the JD-U is concerned,…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The CPI-M has said that the way the demonetisation move has been conducted has exposed “the utter inefficiency and bungling by the government”. An editorial in the party journal “People’s…