On Agri Stack, Expenditure Secy V Vualnam says it's progressing well; using IT, farmers will be able to choose exact fertiliser quantities needed, reducing crowding at fertiliser outlets.
'The trade deficit in some sectors is huge and that is an area of opportunity to localise.'
'Global uncertainty is something which definitely occupies the minds of officials when we are preparing for the Budget.'
New Delhi will substantially reduce tariffs on industrial and agricultural goods while continuing to protect sensitive sectors. Tariffs on some agricultural products that are not traditionally considered sensitive will be brought down to zero, while in the case of relatively sensitive items, duties will be reduced in a graded manner and quotas will be imposed.
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A 24-year-old man killed his employer's wife and teenage son in Delhi's Lajpat Nagar after being publicly scolded for not repaying a loan. The accused, Mukesh Kumar, was arrested while trying to flee.
A woman and her teenage son were allegedly killed by their domestic help at their home in the Lajpat Nagar area of southeast Delhi. The accused was later arrested while trying to flee.
Commonwealth Games medallist Jaismine Lamboria and Youth World champion Sanamacha Chanu secured dominant victories to advance to the quarterfinals of the 8th Elite Women's National Boxing Championship in Greater Noida.
'We believe that in the new world order FTAs or bilateral trade agreements (BTAs) are the way forward.' 'They are enablers for our participation in global value chains. Today, around 70 per cent of global trade is tied to these chains.'
'Each state is unique, but when it comes to finance, the fundamentals cannot be different.'
'Our attempt to honour the taxpayer has been since 2014 and more actively since 2019-2020 onwards.'
'Spend, but create assets, spend but make sure that people benefit from it.' 'This has been a beautiful guiding principle. And I think as a finance minister I owe so much to the prime minister for keeping this path clear before us.'
The India-Bangladesh clash will take place at the Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium in Gwalior, which is hosting an international cricket match after a gap of 14 years.
The father and brother of Ruchika Girhotra, who was molested by Haryana's former director general of police SPS Rathore, on Tuesday demanded the registration of fresh FIRs against him and others, in connection with the post mortem proceedings and booking of her brother in false cases.Subash Chander Girhotra and Ashu, father and brother of Ruchika, submitted their complaints to Panchkula Superintendent of Police Maneesh Chaudhary.
A court in Chandigarh on Thursday will pronounce its verdict on former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore''s plea challenging his conviction in Ruchika molestation case.
The anticipatory bail hearing of SPS Rathore, who molested 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, began at the sessions court in Panchkula on Friday. Rathore's wife Abha, who is also his lawyer, urged the court to grant bail to the former director general of police of Haryana.Ruchika had committed suicide a few years after the incident, following the arrest of her brother on false charges and continuous harassment by the police.Rathore is facing imminent arrest.
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The Central Bureau of Investigations's closure reports in two of the three fresh cases against disgraced ex-DGP SPS Rathore by family of Ruchika Girhotra, triggered a controversy with a man claiming that his testimony to the agency was not incorporated by it.
Amidst an uproar over the Ruchika molestation issue, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said the entire case against former Director General of Police S P S Rathore should be revisited. "After examining (the case) legally, I think it should be revisited. I am fully sympathising with the family (of Ruchika)," said Hooda.Rathore has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika 19 years ago.
The Chandigarh Administration has ordered a probe against the school which had expelled Ruchika Girhotra after her molestation by former Haryana Director General of Police S P S Rathore. The probe, ordered by Education Secretary Ram Niwas, has been initiated to ascertain the causes which led to the expulsion of then 14-year old Ruchika, official sources said in Chandigarh on Monday.
The authorities running the convent school in Chandigarh, which allegedly expelled Ruchika Girhotra after the molestation incident, on Thursday said it had never expelled her.
The family of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide after being molested by former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore, has raised no objection to the Central Bureau of Investigation's closure reports dropping torture charges against the cop.
The Central Bureau of Investigation will probe the fresh FIRs registered by the Haryana police against former Director General of Police S P S Rathore and others in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, according to a central government notification issued on Monday.
Sixteen years after Ruchika Girhotra, a promising young tennis star who was led to commit suicide 16 years ago after she was molested by former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, her friends and acquaintances remembered her.
Ruchika Girhotra's father S C Girhotra said on Thursday that their fight for justice will continue even after Sessions court verdict on former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore on enhancing his sentence in the molesation case of the budding tennis player.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation that has begun its investigation into all fresh cases filed against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore relating to the molestation of Ruchika Girhotra, will meet with Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra along with her friend Aradhana's father Anand Prakash at their Chandigarh camp office on Friday.
Sub-Divisional Magistrate Prerna Puri on Thursday submitted her report of the inquiry into the alleged expulsion of Ruchika Girhotra from the Sacred Heart School in Chandigarh to the Union Territory Administration.
An investigation team on Saturday questioned the principal of a local school which expelled Ruchika Girhotra who was molested by a former top police official of Haryana in 1990.
The Congress on Friday accused Indian National Lok Dal president and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala of trying to politicise Ruchika molestation case.
The lawyer of Ruchika Girhotra's family on Saturday rejected the post-mortem report of the teenager, which blamed her death on the excessive use of slimming pills. "The report very clearly mentions slimming pills as the reason behind the death. But slimming pills, even if somebody takes more than two, cannot kill," said Pankaj Bharadwaj, the Girhotras' lawyer.
'We don't have to go abroad for anything.' 'Anyone who thinks we have a lot to learn from the US needs to have his head examined.' 'We are in a new era.'
The Punjab and Haryana High Court will on Monday hear the bail plea of former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore against the six-months sentence and conviction in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.The court also decided to conduct in-camera hearings of the trial. Only the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the Rathore and Girhotra families will be allowed at the hearings. Media personnel have been barred from the proceedings.
A local court in Chandigarh will hear the petitions of disgraced former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore on a day-to-day basis from May 3 challenging his conviction for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra and of Central Bureau of Investigation and the victim's family seeking enhancement of his six months sentence.
The Haryana police on Tuesday night registered fresh FIRs against former state director general of police SPS Rathore who received only a six-month jail term recently for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990. The state police had earlier referred for legal examination the two complaints lodged by Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra and brother Aashu, seeking filing of cases against Rathore and other police officials for slapping false cases against the boy.
68-year-old Rathore was convicted for molesting budding tennis player Ruchika who later committed suicide, but he got away with six months imprisonment.
Battling for justice for 20 years, the family of Ruchika Girhotra on Tuesday voiced satisfaction over the court enhancing the sentence of her molester and former director general of police SPS Rathore, but said their fight will continue till he is charged with abetment of her suicide. "We are satisfied as justice has been delivered. But we will continue to fight till he (Rathore) is charged under Section 306 of the IPC for abetment of suicide," Ruchika's father said.
World Human Rights Council (WHRC) Chairman Ranjan Lakhanpal, a local advocate, sought a thorough probe into the molestation, circumstances leading to the suicide of Ruchika three years after the molestation by then IGP S P S Rathore in 1990 and booking of her brother, Ashu, in false cases.
A public interest litigation (PIL) will be filed against the Chandigarh-based Sacred Heart School, where Ruchika Girhotra studied. The school had expelled her under pressure from former Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) SPS Rathore, the man who molested her.
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