Day: November 29, 2019

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Lookout notice against Rose Valley group chairman’s wife

2:48 pm November 29, 2019

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday issued a lookout notice against Subhra Kundu, wife of Rose Valley group chairman Gautam Kundu, in connection with the probe into the multi-crore chit fund scam. A team of ED officials, probing the money laundering aspect of the Rose Valley scam, had last week visited her south Kolkata […]

15-yr-old girl abducted, raped by three youths in UP

Dalit girl abducted and raped by five men in UP’s Ballia

2:46 pm November 29, 2019

Ballia (UP): A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly abducted and raped by five people for over a month in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, police said on Friday. The girl was abducted on October 16 and taken to Panipat in Haryana and allegedly raped, ASP Sanjay Yadav said. The victim managed to escape and returned home […]

Mamata Banerjee has gone mad, says BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur

Pragya Thakur tenders apology in LS for remarks on Godse

2:36 pm November 29, 2019

New Delhi: Facing opposition attack for her controversial comments on Nathuram Godse, BJP MP Pragya Thakur on Friday tendered an apology in Lok Sabha but said her remarks have been twisted. The Bhopal MP said her comments were in a different context. Thakur created a controversy on Wednesday with her remarks in the Lower House […]

India looks to become self-reliant in silk sector in next two years: Irani

Rs 9,046 crore earmarked for ‘Poshan Abhiyan’

2:34 pm November 29, 2019

New Delhi: The government has earmarked a budget of Rs 9,046 crore for the ‘POSHAN Abhiyaan’, a three- year nutritional programme for children and women. Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani said in Lok Sabha that the government has set up the ‘POSHAN Abhiyaan’ on December 18, 2017 for a three year […]

Afghan peace talks with Taliban has resumed: Trump

2:29 pm November 29, 2019

Washington: US President Donald Trump has confirmed that his administration had resumed talks with the Taliban with the purpose of bringing peace in Afghanistan, but refused to give a timeline for drawdown of his troops. “Yes,” Trump told a small group of reporters at the Bagram Air Field on Thursday when asked to confirm whether […]