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Will never apologise: Rahul on rape remarks

2:29 pm December 13, 2019

New Delhi: Under attack for his rape remarks, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he would never apologise and instead demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should do so over an old video in which he claimed that Delhi had turned into a “rape capital” under the UPA dispensation. “As far as their (BJP’s) […]

Two lakh jobs added in IT sector since 2019: Prasad

Govt creating framework for deployment of secure 5G services: Prasad

8:47 pm December 12, 2019

New Delhi: The government is creating an enabling framework for deployment of affordable and secure 5G services in India, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday. No case of any first world countries disapproving 5G spectrum services due to security reasons has come to its notice, he added. During the question hour in the […]

Internet-dependent commercial activities hit in Assam

Protest at India Gate against citizenship amendment bill

8:06 pm December 12, 2019

New Delhi: A motley group of protesters gathered at the India Gate here protesting against the “divisive” Citizenship Amendment Bill which passed the Rajya Sabha hurdle on Wednesday. The protesters raised anti-BJP and anti-government slogans and asked the President not to sign the Bill into a law. The police appealed the playcard-carrying protesters to disperse […]

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

Industrial production declines by 3.8 pc in October

7:47 pm December 12, 2019

New Delhi: Industrial production shrank by 3.8 per cent in October, mainly due to poor performance by power, mining and manufacturing sectors, according to official data released on Thursday. Factory output, as measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP), had expanded 8.4 per cent in October 2018. A slowdown was witnessed in the […]

JNU VC holds meeting with hostel presidents; no headway

7:45 pm December 12, 2019

New Delhi: JNU vice-chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar on Thursday held a meeting with hostel presidents to discuss their issues and restore normalcy at the university, but there was no headway as the students’ representatives said “nothing conclusive” came out from the administration side. The VC met 18 hostel presidents on a day he attended his […]