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Irani To Flag Off BJP’s Bike Rally From Srinagar

SRINAGAR: Union minister Smriti Irani will flag off a Tiranga rally of at least 300 bikers from the famous clock tower in Srinagar on Monday. The bike rally will culminate at Kargil War Memorial on July 26, marking the Vijay Diwas. Besides BJP national general secretary Tarun Chug, BJP Yuva Morcha president Tejasvi Surya and […]

Biocon Briberygate: Aapki File Pe Progress Ho haya..Tapes Under CBI Court’s Lens

NEW DELHI: ‘Aapki file pe progress ho gaya hai’, the excerpt from conversations between CDSCO official Animesh Kumar and Gujji Sethi, a conduit in the Biocon bribery case, needs further explanation, a special CBI court has observed. The court made the observation on July 19 while rejecting the bail applications of joint drugs controller S […]

NIA Takes Over Bihar’s PFI Terror Module Case

NEW DELHI: Days after the Bihar Police arrested five member of the Popular Front of India (PFI), who were allegedly part of a module that sought to target those “who make adverse and objectionable” comments against Islam, the NIA on Saturday said it will probe possible terror angle to the case. The National Investigation Agency […]

J&K LG Reviews Status Of Ongoing Housing & Urban Development Projects

SRINAGAR: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday reviewed the status of ongoing projects of the Housing and Urban Development Department during a high-level meeting to assess the functioning of the department, at the Civil Secretariat here. During the meeting, the Lt Governor took several important decisions to resolve the bottlenecks and expedite the execution of […]

Cost Of Agnipath Protest: 2,000 Trains Affected, Rail Properties Worth Rs 259 Cr Damaged, Says Railways Minister

NEW DELHI: More than 2000 trains were affected across the country as protestors of the Agnipath Scheme damaged properties worth more than Rs 259 crores, Union railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Parliament on Friday. In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, Vaishnaw said 2,132 trains were cancelled between June 15 and June 23. Train […]