Day: September 12, 2019

Lakhs of animals dying due to plastic; govt serious about it: Jal Shakti MoS

2:47 pm September 12, 2019

New Delhi: Union minister Rattan Lal Kataria on Thursday said lakhs of animals are dying due to plastic and the government has taken a serious note of it. He said the entire country will become open defecation-free by October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to […]

Sonia slams Centre for ‘anti-people’ activities, ‘exploiting’ farmers

Dangerous misuse of mandate by BJP: Sonia Gandhi

2:31 pm September 12, 2019

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday expressed concern over the “grim” economic situation in the country and accused the BJP government of misusing its mandate in the “most dangerous” fashion. Sources said, Gandhi, while addressing Congress leaders at a meeting at the party headquarters here asserted that the BJP government was testing the […]

PM launches farmers’ pension scheme

2:28 pm September 12, 2019

Ranchi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched an ambitious pension scheme for farmers from here. Under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Kisan Mandhan Yojana’, farmers between 18 and 40 years of age will get Rs 3,000 monthly pension after reaching 60. The scheme has an outlay of Rs 10,774 crore for the next three years. All […]

Pak skips SCO military medicine conference

2:24 pm September 12, 2019

New Delhi: Pakistan on Thursday skipped the two-day SCO military medicine conference organised by India here. The conference is being attended by 27 international and 40 Indian delegates. At the conference, the inaugural session of which was addressed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the seat allotted to Pakistan was vacant. This is the first military […]

PM Modi inaugurates Jharkhand’s Assembly building

2:20 pm September 12, 2019

Ranchi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated a newly constructed building of Jharkhand Assembly at Kute gram here. The three-storey building has been constructed at a cost of Rs 465 crore. The PM inaugurated the building in the presence of Governor Droupadi Murmu and Chief Minister Raghubar Das. It is dubbed as the first […]