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Rs.587 crore for India-Bangladesh rail link: Jitendra Singh
New Delhi, March 4: The Centre will provide Rs.587 crore for a rail project to link India and Bangladesh, union minister Jitendra Singh said on Thursday.
The project, one of the most important under the 'Act East' policy of the Narendra…
Budget has given RBI space to cut rates: Jayant Sinha
New Delhi, March 3: The union budget 2016-17, with the target of holding the next fiscal's deficit at 3.5 percent of GDP, has given space to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ease interest rates, union Minister of State for Finance Jayant…
Kanhaiya Kumar to be freed soon, bail bond furnished
New Delhi, March 3: JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, accused of sedition, will soon be released from Tihar Jail here as his bail bond has been furnished, a lawyer said on Thursday. This follows the Delhi High Court's order on Wednesday…
Bill to give statutory status to Aadhaar introduced in Lok Sabha
New Delhi, March 3: Despite opposition from the Congress and the Biju Janata Dal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday introduced the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016 in the…
PM Modi invokes Rajiv Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru for peace in parliament
New Delhi, March 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday invoked late Congress stalwarts and prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi to urge the opposition to let parliament function "peacefully and responsibly".…
Nation suffers if parliament does not function: PM Narendra Modi
New Delhi, March 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the nation suffers if the parliament does not function properly.
"The House is a place where debates are to take place. When Parliament sessions are not functional, the…
Union Cabinet apprised of Japanese, Russian railway agreements
New Delhi, March 3: The union cabinet was apprised of three important technological cooperation agreements Indian Railways inked with Japan and Russia in December 2015 on Wednesday. On December 11, 2015, Ministry of Railways (MoR) signed a…
Kanhaiya Kumar gets six-month bail, JNU students celebrate
New Delhi, March 3: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted six-month interim bail to JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested for sedition, but imposed restrictions on him. Justice Pratibha Rani ordered the bail after asking the…
Supreme Court clears decks for dance bars in Mumbai
New Delhi, March 2: The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the decks for the issuance of dance bar licences to hotels and restaurants in Mumbai as it modified the conditions for the permit and excluded installation of CCTV from restaurants…
Al Qaeda hacks Indian Railway website
New Delhi, March 2: Terror outfit Al Qaeda on Tuesday allegedly hacked a microsite of the Railnet page of the Indian Railway to show its sinister reach for the first time. It later left the page.
The hacked page of Bhusawal division of…