Ahmedabad: The Gujarat government said on Sunday that it will implement the 10% reservations in government jobs and higher education for the economically backward sections in the general category from January 14. The constitutional amendment to provide the 10% quota received the assent of President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday. ‘The economically weaker sections from […]
Category: Politics
As the festival of Makar Sankranti is inching closer, Gujarat is all set to celebrate the occasion with full fervor and enthusiasm. Interestingly, this year the festival is set to get a political touch. The kites starring Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress party president Rahul Gandhi are ready to fly high in the sky. […]
New Delhi, Jan 12: The Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are likely to announce their alliance on January 12, 2019, but the Bharatiya Janata Party has given a new kind of energy to its workers from the party’s National Council meeting at Ramlila Ground in New Delhi. Despite the fact that the […]
Holding independent rallies in Maharashtra almost simultaneously, Modi and Thackeray launched their respective poll campaigns. Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday attempted to justify one of his government’s slogans — sabka saath sabka vikas — as he launched the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Speaking in Maharashtra’s Solapur, he belted out […]
New Delhi, January 9: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia had ‘escaped’ incomes of Rs 300 crore in 2011-12 and their tax liability is around Rs 100 crore, according to an income tax (IT) order passed after reassessing the Congress leaders’ incomes relating to Associated Journals Ltd. Rahul Gandhi and Sonia had ‘escaped’ […]
New Delhi: In what could be a special gift for the lakhs of railway passengers this New Year, the Indian Railways has decided to completely remove flexi fares from trains with less than 50 per cent occupancy. The reduction of Flexi Fares is going to benefit both the passengers that can now avail tickets at […]
The Union cabinet on Monday cleared a 10 percent reservation in government jobs for “economically weaker” sections, which would also include those from upper castes. According to PTI, Social Justice Minister Thavarchand Gehlot is likely to table the bill in Parliament on Tuesday and for the first time provide for non-caste, non-religion based reservation. HERE […]
Indian consular officials, including High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria, were prevented on three occasions from meeting Sikh pilgrims visiting shrines in Pakistan. By Ramananda Sengupta Belying Pakistan ’s new Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi and his Army Chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s repeated assertions that they wanted peace with India, Indian diplomats in Pakistan are […]
New Delhi, Jan 5: After former minister of state for home in the Gujarat government Gordhan Zadafia has been made in-charge of Uttar Pradesh for 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) now wants one of its most favourite leaders and former organising secretary of the party Sanjay Joshi to be given some responsibility […]
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Friday passed a bill to amend the Aadhaar Act and two related laws which will allow individuals to offer voluntarily biometric ID as a means of identity verification for obtaining services such as opening bank account and procuring mobile phone connection. The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill proposes changes in […]