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Senior Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury. (File Photo) Renuka Chowdhury slams Javadekar for criticising Rahul Gandhi for walking out of defence house panel meet ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 18:08 IST By Amit Kumar New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury on Thursday slammed Union Minister Prakash Javadekar for criticising Rahul Gandhi for walking out of a meeting of the parliamentary committee on defence. Chowdhury asked J...

Usually, the Raksha Mantri Award is given for excellent performance in six categories. (Representational) The Cantonment General Hospitals of Pune, Kirkee and Deolali have been conferred the Raksha Mantri Award for their “outstanding performance” in the fight against Covid-19. The number of deaths in Pune Cantonment Hospital, six, has been one of the lowest, when compared to the number of patients treated, said Amit Kumar, CEO of Pune Cantonment Board. Usually, the Raksha Mantri...

People repose faith in LDF, BJP fails miserably: Yechury on Kerala local body election trends ANI | Updated: Dec 16, 2020 18:09 IST By Amit Kumar New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday lauded the commendable performance of Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the local body election in Kerala where counting of votes in the local body elections is inching towards the final lap. The ru...

NEW DELHI – Backed by strategic investors from the U.S. and Europe, Interups Inc. – led by Indian American entrepreneur Laxmi Prasad – Dec. 15 submitted a joint “expression of interest” with Air India employees for the government’s stake in the national carrier Air India. Prasad, chairman of Interups Inc., said: “We plan to allocate 51 percent of the stake to employees, while rest 49 percent will be kept with us. We have a number of U.S. and Europe-based strat...

Opposition behind farmers protest for their political survival, alleges Union Minister Giriraj Singh ANI | Updated: Dec 15, 2020 14:38 IST By Amit Kumar New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Giriraj Singh on Tuesday alleged that opposition leaders are behind farmers protest for their political survivals. Speaking to ANI Union Minister Giriraj Singh said that the door of the government is open for ...

Government should repeal farm laws, end farmers protest: Former MoS Agriculture Akhilesh Prasad Singh ANI | Updated: Dec 14, 2020 19:05 IST By Amit Kumar New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI): Congress MP and former Minister of State for Agriculture Akhilesh Prasad Singh on Monday said the government should repeal the three farm laws against which farmers have been protesting on Delhi borders. Singh, who was Minister of State for Agriculture, Food, P...

PSO of PDP leader martyred in militant attack in Srinagar PSO of PDP leader martyred in militant attack in Srinagar ‘Attack conspiracy to disrupt polls’ Excelsior Correspondent Jammu, Dec 14: Militants this morning martyred a security guard of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader at Natipora area of Srinagar and the Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh termed it a conspiracy to disrupt the poll process. Militants this morning fired upon PSO of PDP leader Haji...

Demand of protesting farmers for repeal of three farm laws most reasonable: Yechury ANI | Updated: Dec 14, 2020 20:41 IST By Amit Kumar New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury on Monday said that the demand of protesting farmers for the repeal of three farm laws was "most reasonable" and the government should accept it. He supported the hunger strike by protesting farmers today and said they have de...

A Delhi-based company, Kanti Commercials is leading the consortium along with Fragment Nivesh and Enormous Nivesh who have bid along with 209 employees of Air India for the national carrier. In its expression of interest (EoI) for Air India, Kanti Commercials has said, "We are very much eligible to bid for the disinvestment programme of Air India and have expertise in for turning around sick industrial enterprises into profitable ones". "For the past many years, we have completed many s...

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