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A scrap dealer under depression for mighty business losses committed suicide after killing his wifey and teenage son in west Delhi, police said on Tuesday.
Actor Subrat Dutta, who is gearing up for the commercial release of “Sameer”, says that the film is not about terrorism but the idea of terrorism and what we can do about it.
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Mergers can happen inbetween healthy banks and not amongst powerless ones and the central government should be careful in this regard, said Reserve Bank of India’s former Governor Raghuram G Rajan said on Tuesday.
President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday assured a delegation of women’s groups of utter support for the speedy passage of the womens reservation bill as it sought his backing for gender equality in politics.
While the RBI launched the 200-rupee note a week ago, it may take up to three months for ATMs to embark dispensing the fresh denomination currency as it will involve a phat exercise of recalibration.
A 53-year-old Gurugram resident holding a United States passport was arrested for impersonating as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an official said on Tuesday.
Senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead on Tuesday night by unidentified studs at her residence, police said. She was 55.
Jamming demonetisation as a major factor responsible for the current deceleration in the economy, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram says the government was “clueless” about the causative factors on why the GDP was declining and unless these are addressed the Indian economy would be stuck at six per cent growth.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that students in the state would be encouraged to learn different languages but stressed that Bengali, being the regional language, should also be studied in parallel.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would examine whether a person appointed to the posts of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) and Vigilance Commissioners (VC) met the criteria of having “impeccable integrity”.
The tonnes of garbage at the ‘over-saturated’ Ghazipur dump-yard which collapsed on Friday claiming two lives is estimated to be just one percent of the entire landfill, a senior municipal engineer said.
Italian Police on Tuesday seized 52.7 kilos of cocaine hidden inwards coal sacks in a container ship at the port of Gioia Tauro with a market value of at least ten million euros.
For the third year in a row, the monsoon season has produced floods in the northwest and the northeast, while south India has suffered from a rainfall deficit. Rainfall extremes have enlargened threefold over the last few years and now extend over all of central India — from Gujarat to Odisha.
Over one hundred ten legislators of Tamil Nadu’s ruling AIADMK attended a meeting held at the party headquarters here and agreed to abide by the decision of Chief Minister K.Palaniswami, a minister said.
When ‘mafi’ meant certain rape in Dera’s ‘gufa’
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday voiced alarm over the killing of senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh and demanded justice.
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Is there an oncoming debt crisis?
The tonnes of garbage at the ‘over-saturated’ Ghazipur dump-yard which collapsed on Friday claiming two lives is estimated to be just one percent of the entire landfill, a senior municipal engineer said.
A scrap dealer under depression for intense business losses committed suicide after killing his wifey and teenage son in west Delhi, police said on Tuesday.
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Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on Tuesday said all three municipal corporations should use compactors for transportation of garbage, and solid waste should be processed by utilising excess expansion capacity of existing waste-to-energy plants.
For the third year in a row, the monsoon season has produced floods in the northwest and the northeast, while south India has suffered from a rainfall deficit. Rainfall extremes have enlargened threefold over the last few years and now extend over all of central India — from Gujarat to Odisha.
Global cues, rupee movement to drive Indian equity markets
Italian Police on Tuesday seized 52.7 kilos of cocaine hidden inwards coal sacks in a container ship at the port of Gioia Tauro with a market value of at least ten million euros.
Tucking demonetisation as a major factor responsible for the current deceleration in the economy, former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram says the government was “clueless” about the causative factors on why the GDP was declining and unless these are addressed the Indian economy would be stuck at six per cent growth.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that students in the state would be encouraged to learn different languages but stressed that Bengali, being the regional language, should also be studied in parallel.
It will take time for the economists to figure out whether the fall in the growth rate to Five.7 per cent is the result of the disruption caused by demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST), but most of the common people will see a connection inbetween the two steps and a slowing down of the economy.
While the RBI launched the 200-rupee note a week ago, it may take up to three months for ATMs to begin dispensing the fresh denomination currency as it will involve a gigantic exercise of recalibration.
Mergers can happen inbetween healthy banks and not amongst feeble ones and the central government should be careful in this regard, said Reserve Bank of India’s former Governor Raghuram G Rajan said on Tuesday.
President assures total support for Women’s Reservation Bill
President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday assured a delegation of women’s groups of utter support for the speedy passage of the womens reservation bill as it sought his backing for gender equality in politics.
SC to examine whether CVC, VC met criteria of having impeccable integrity
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would examine whether a person appointed to the posts of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) and Vigilance Commissioners (VC) met the criteria of having “impeccable integrity”.
When ‘mafi’ meant certain rape in Dera’s ‘gufa’
Alarmed over Gauri Lankesh’s death: Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday voiced alarm over the killing of senior Kannada journalist and social activist Gauri Lankesh and demanded justice.