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The rail ministry has fitted 7,000 bio-toilets and the target is to fix 30,000 for the year.
Expressing resentment at party MP Shashi Tharoor praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress' Kerala unit on Wednesday decided to submit a report to the party high command seeking suitable action in the matter.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the country on Friday in his first radio address titled 'Mann Ki baat'.
These plans aren't likely to put substantial cash in your hands.
Several exemptions have been given to reduce the cost of raw materials.
The flight was scheduled to depart at 1.45 pm but due to the non-availability of the pilot it could take off only at 2.30 pm.
The bright yellow coloured notes will hit the market just a day after the announcement by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley that the government has given a go-ahead to the RBI to issue the new currency bill.
Shazia Ilmi, one of the Aam Aadmi Party's founder members who left that party after the Lok Sabha elections in May 2014, was recently nominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit to join the Swachh Bharat campaign. After she came out in favour of the campaign and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, there has been speculation about Ilmi planning to join the saffron party. She speaks about her views on BJP, love jihad and her fallout with AAP.
The Budget session of Parliament is all set for a stormy start on Tuesday with major opposition parties planning to corner the government.
World leaders, including Modi, also inaugurated the Gandhi Solar Park at the UN headquarters here and released a commemorative stamp issued by the UN on the occasion of Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary.
BJP chief J P Nadda on Thursday launched 'Lokkho Sonar Bangla' (target to build golden Bengal) manifesto crowdsourcing campaign to seek suggestions from more than two crore people in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming assembly elections.
Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai is the kind of bad movie that already knows it stands on shaky grounds and doesn't do anything to mask its insecurities, observes Sukanya Verma.
'Give cash assistance of Rs 75 per person per day and an android phone and you will see the economy reviving.'
Room for rise of up to 2 percentage points, move to help meet higher expenditure need in FY17
Launching the Ayushman Bharat scheme via a video-conference to extend health insurance benefits to all residents of Jammu and Kashmir, he said the three-tier panchayat system has fully taken shape in the UT, describing it as a realisation of Mahatma Gandhi's dream of 'gram swaraj' (village self-rule).
The number of terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir has shown significant decline since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
The last time a prime minister attended an event at AMU was Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1964. Before him, then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had visited the AMU four times.
The boy from Kanpur kept his audiences in theatres, on television and lately on social media platforms engaged with vivid societal sketches, be it about travelling in Mumbai's famous locals or lampooning queues at wedding buffets.
She said the government is preparing a blueprint to build 100 smart cities and to upgrade India's infrastructure
Indian business has many legitimate grievances against the political class for not delivering an optimal business environment.
He urged Congress-run states to also help elevate the poor.
Over 14,000 policemen were deployed across the city for the security of Adityanath.
The cons are dull, the chemistry is off, the zingers are in short supply and a kitschy display of brand logos and hammy accents takes centre stage, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Modi govt pushed very hard the concept of smart cities in 2014.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar has already held telephonic talks with leader of the opposition in the Upper House Ghulam Nabi Azad.
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Expect Modi to speak about internal security, terrorism, agriculture, the Triple Talaq Bill, the SC/ST Bill and, of course, the controversial NRC.
Huge television screens, flags, flashy lights and a 10,000-bike cavalcade. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's homecoming was nothing short of being spectacular.
There's unintended hilarity and very little combat to justify the existence of a sequel, feels Sukanya Verma.
The 14th Finance Commission had recommended that states' share in the divisible tax pool be raised to 42 per cent, from 32 per cent earlier.
In the 2020-21 Budget, the prime minister and the finance minister are keen to stamp their narrative, after various rollbacks following the previous Budget, said top government sources. Besides the scheduled meetings, the sources said, the Prime Minister's Office is expected to hold several meetings with top secretaries and officials on various ongoing schemes, their performance and also how some of them could be tweaked for better results.
Tax administration could be improved to reduce discretion and improve accountability
'Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train will not begin to address any of the many problems Indian Railways faces.'
Options include raising both excise and service tax rates in FY16
The residents near the Deonar dumping ground continued to suffer for a fourth day in a row on Tuesday, as the poisonous smoke engulfed the entire area, affecting the air quality and making it difficult to breathe.
The strength of teams has been bolstered from 14 during the inaugural edition last year to 25.
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