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Chandrayaan-1 team was anxious till spac | Chennai, Aug 20 (TIWN) The guiding of Indias first spacecraft to the moon --Chandrayaan-1 -- was a very big event in 2008 and about 200 officials were in tense and anxious, sending up their prayers to their 'insta devathas (favourite deities) on the day when the spacecraft was being injected into the lunar orbit, recalled M. Annadurai, former Director, U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC). | 19-Aug-2019 |
BJP, Congress mark last Tripura king's 1 | Agartala, Aug 20 (IANS) In an unprecedented move, the ruling BJP and opposition Congress leaders, besides the state government, on Monday separately celebrated the 111th birth anniversary of Tripura's last king Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya (1923-1947). | 20-Aug-2019 |
Let us pray for human rights and peace i | Kolkata, Aug 20 (TIWN) Observing World Humanitarian Day on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that we must all pray for the restoration of human rights and peace in Kashmir. | 20-Aug-2019 |
Yogi slammed after woman burnt alive ove | Lucknow, Aug 19 (TIWN) A young woman in Uttar Pradesh was burnt alive in front of her five-year-old daughter after she complained to the police that her husband has divorced her by uttering "talaq" thrice. | 19-Aug-2019 |
Priyanka hits out at government over eco | New Delhi, Aug 19 (TIWN) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Monday slammed the government's silence over job losses following the slowdown in the economy. | 19-Aug-2019 |
Talks with Pakistan only on PoK: Rajnath | Kalka (Haryana), Aug 19 (TIWN) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that talks would be held with Pakistan only on Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). | 19-Aug-2019 |
DD News anchor Neelum Sharma no more | New Delhi, Aug 18 (TIWN) News anchor Neelum Sharma, who was associated with Indias public service broadcaster Doordarshan News for over 20 years, breathed her last on Saturday. The news of her demise was flashed on the official Twitter account of DD News and, according to reports, she was batteling cancer. | 19-Aug-2019 |
We have right to know what happened to N | Kolkata, Aug 18 (TIWN) Recalling the mysterious disappearance of great Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said that peoploe have the right to know of his whereabouts or ultimate fate. | 18-Aug-2019 |
BJP worker killed in Bengal | Kolkata, Aug 18 (TIWN) A fifty-year-old worker of Bharatiya Janata Party died after miscreants hurled crude bombs towards him in West Bengal's Birbhum district, police said on Sunday. | 18-Aug-2019 |
Hundreds stranded in Himachal after heav | Shimla, Aug 18 (TIWN) Hundreds remained stranded in Himachal Pradesh after incessant rainfall triggered landslides, snapped road links, closing of hydropower projects and release excess water from a dam, officials said on Sunday. | 18-Aug-2019 |
Priyanka asks BJP leaders to clarify sta | New Delhi, Aug 17 (TIWN): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday asked BJP leaders to clarify their stand on rape accused legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar, after his photographs appeared in an Independence Day advertisement in a Hindi newspaper, along with pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath and Home Minister Amit Shah. | 17-Aug-2019 |
Andhra village elder booked for thrashin | Amaravati, Aug 17 (TIWN) Police in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district on Saturday booked a village elder for thrashing a minor Dalit girl in public for eloping with a youth. | 17-Aug-2019 |
11 lose sight after botched surgery in I | Bhopal, Aug 17 (TIWN) Eleven persons lost their vision to different degrees following suspected infection after they were operated upon for cataract in Indore Eye Hospital, a health official said on Saturday. | 17-Aug-2019 |
17 phone exchanges restored, curbs lifte | Srinagar, Aug 17 (TIWN) Following the clampdown for 12 days in Jammu and Kashmir over the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into two Union Territories, the state government on Saturday said that 17 of the 96 exchanges were made functional while restrictions have been lifted from 35 police stations in North, South and Central Kashmir region. | 17-Aug-2019 |
Ex-ED Director under CBI lens over CVC c | New Delhi, Aug 17 (TIWN) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing into a complaint of an alleged disproportionate case against former Enforcement Directorate Director Karnal Singh who retired last year, top official sources said. | 17-Aug-2019 |
TMC Secretary General, ex-Kolkata top co | Kolkata, Aug 16 (TIWN) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday questioned Trinamool Congress Secretary General Partha Chatterjee and former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Ponzi scam cases, an official said here. | 16-Aug-2019 |
Rahul Gandhi's largesse for 18,000 famil | Wayanad (Kerala), Aug 16 (TIWN) The Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, as promised, has started distributing kits to over 18,000 families affected by the floods. | 16-Aug-2019 |
Lower court order in Pehlu Khan case sur | New Delhi, Aug 16 (TIWN) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday described the lower court order in Pehlu Khan mob lynching case as "surprising" saying there should be no place for an inhuman act in our country and the Rajasthan government's decision to bring a law on mob lynching is a welcome decision. | 16-Aug-2019 |
Chidambaram hails Modi's vision | New Delhi, Aug 16 (TIWN) Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Friday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision over population explosion, eliminating single use plastic and respecting wealth creators. | 16-Aug-2019 |
Rajendra Sethia: Acquitted after 34 year | New Delhi, Aug 16 (TIWN) In many ways, Rajendra Singh Sethia -- the world's biggest bankrupt in the 1980s, long before the insolvency and bankruptcy code emerged in India, or the US saw its share of Chapter 11 bankruptcies -- represents the archetype of a Greek tragic hero. The Nigeria and Sudan experience meant that the wheel of fortune had taken a dive, a death spiral which plunged him to depths. | 16-Aug-2019 |
Incident free I-Day celebration at Red F | New Delhi, Aug 15 (TIWN) Independence Day celebrations at the Red Fort passed off without any untoward incident on Thursday, with several layers of security in place. | 15-Aug-2019 |
Rahul Gandhi greets nation on Independen | New Delhi, Aug 15 (TIWN) Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday greeted the nation on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day and raksha bandhan. | 15-Aug-2019 |
'Those who follow the policy of small fa | NEW DELHI, Aug 15 (TIWN): Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the need for population control during his Independence speech from the ramparts of Red Fort. | 15-Aug-2019 |
Modi condoles flood victims in I-Day spe | New Delhi, Aug 15 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condoled the victims of floods in several parts of the country and assured that all possible support would be provided. | 14-Aug-2019 |
PM unfurls tricolour, addresses nation o | New Delhi, Aug 15 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday unfurled the national flag at the Red Fort to mark the 73rd Independence Day. | 14-Aug-2019 |
‘Jhulan’ festival celebrate | AGARTALA, Aug 14 (TIWN): Jhulan Jatra Mahotsav which started on 11th August is being celebrated across Tripura. | 14-Aug-2019 |
Rahul urges RBI to extend moratorium on | Wayanad, Aug 14 (TIWN) Former Congress chief and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, here on Wednesday, urged Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das for extension of moratorium on repayment of crop loans in Kerala in the wake of flood. | 14-Aug-2019 |
For years intimidation ruled the roost i | New Delhi, Aug 14 (TIWN) With Prime Minister Narendra Modi completing 75 days today in his second avatar as the nation's helmsman, he speaks extensively to IANS on his priorities going forward and also touches upon various sensitive issues varying from Jammu & Kashmir, medical reforms, criticality of education to taking the knife to the tumor of corruption within the bureaucracy. In an extensive conversation with IANS Editor-in-Chief Sandeep Bamzai, the Prime Minister walks him through the most contentious issues facing India and his remedies for maladies. | 14-Aug-2019 |
Restrictions in Jaipur after communal cl | Jaipur, Aug 14 (TIWN) There is prohibitory orders in place in various areas of the Rajasthan capital following a spate of communal clashes over the last two days, in which some 10 people were injured. Tear gas shells were used to quell the mob and five persons were arrested, police said. | 14-Aug-2019 |
President seeks report on suicides by Te | Hyderabad, Aug 14 (TIWN) President Ram Nath Kovind has sought a report from the Telangana government on the suicides by 27 students over the alleged goof-up in the results of Intermediate examinations. | 14-Aug-2019 |
There is no bigger decision than Kashmir | New Delhi, Aug 14 (TIWN) With Prime Minister Narendra Modi completing 75 days today in his second avatar as the nation's helmsman, he speaks extensively to IANS on his priorities going forward and also touches upon various sensitive issues varying from Jammu & Kashmir, medical reforms, criticality of education to taking the knife to the tumor of corruption within the bureaucracy. In an extensive conversation with IANS Editor-in-Chief Sandeep Bamzai, the Prime Minister walks him through the most contentious issues facing India and his remedies for the maladies. | 14-Aug-2019 |
Priyanka calls manner of Art. 370 revoca | Sonebhadra (Uttar Pradesh), Aug 13 (TIWN) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Tuesday, said that the manner in which the BJP-led central government revoked Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir was 'completely unconstitutional' and 'against all the principles of democracy'. | 13-Aug-2019 |
Kashmir Times Editor moves SC for hearin | New Delhi, Aug 13 (TIWN) The Executive Editor of the Kashmir Times, Anuradha Bhasin, on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking early hearing on her plea seeking relaxation of curbs on movement to media personnel and photojournalists to cover news in the Kashmir Valley. | 13-Aug-2019 |
Congress is scoring self-goals: ex AICC | New Delhi, Aug 13 (TIWN) The Congress' decision to ask Sonia Gandhi to take over as interim president shows the "political leadership bankruptcy" in the party, said a former head of the AICC legal cell. | 13-Aug-2019 |
Nehru's criminal acts on J&K undone by M | Bhopal, Aug 13 (TIWN) Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's decision to revoke the Constitution's Article 370, that granting a special status to Jammu and Kashmir, had corrected the "criminal action" by the country's first prime minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. | 12-Aug-2019 |
Mob lynching: MP police to monitor socia | Bhopal, Aug 13 (TIWN) With a motive to prevent mob lynching incidents over child abduction rumours, Madhya Pradesh police is monitoring the social media, especially WhatsApp and Facebook. | 12-Aug-2019 |
CM flags off Beat Patrolling 2-wheelers | AGARTALA, Aug 12 (TIWN): Chief Minister Biplab Deb has flagged off Beat Patrolling two wheelers of Tripura Police at Swami Vivekananda Stadium (also known as Astabal stadium), Agartala. | 12-Aug-2019 |
J&K celebrates Eid after special status | Srinagar, Aug 12 (TIWN) Amid massive security arrangements and restrictions, Jammu and Kashmir on Monday marked its first Eid after the revocation of its special status, even as the state administration held a meeting with local clerics to oversee prayer arrangements and ensure peaceful celebrations. | 12-Aug-2019 |
Eid, last Monday of 'Sawan' celebrated i | Lucknow, Aug 12 (TIWN) Eid was celebrated in the Uttar Pradesh state capital amid tight security since it coincided with the last Monday of the month of 'Sawan', which is also being observed by Hindus. | 12-Aug-2019 |
Kerala floods make Eid low key affair | Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 12 (TIWN) With rains and subsequent floods battering Kerala for the past few days, Eid celebrations in various parts of the state on Monday was a low key affair, which started and ended with prayers. | 12-Aug-2019 |
Azam's emotional Eid message to Rampur | Lucknow, Aug 12 (TIWN) Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, who has been courting trouble in many forms, posted a video message on social media on the occasion of Eid wishing the people in his parliamentary constituency Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. | 12-Aug-2019 |
Eid symbolizes love, service to humanity | New Delhi, Aug 11 (TIWN) President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday greeted citizens on the occasion of Eid, which falls on Monday, saying the festival symbolizes love and service to humanity. | 11-Aug-2019 |
It had to be a Gandhi, none else, chorus | New Delhi, Aug 11 (TIWN) The spectre of a split in the country's oldest political party was looming at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Saturday as leaders got emotional at the mention of a non-Gandhi to lead the Congress. | 11-Aug-2019 |
Rahul arrives to visit his flood-ravaged | Kozhikode (Kerala), Aug 11 (TIWN) Wayanad Lok Sabha member and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi arrived here on Sunday afternoon for a tour of his constituency, Wayanad, which has been badly hit by rains and flood waters. | 11-Aug-2019 |
Article 370 was of no use for India or K | Chennai, Aug 11 (TIWN) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Central government decided to abrogate Article 370 of the Consitution, that accorded a special status to Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), as it was of no use to the country or the state. | 11-Aug-2019 |
Yogi announces free bus rides for women | Lucknow, Aug 11 (TIWN) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced free transportation to women on Raksha Bandhan in all category of state-owned buses. | 11-Aug-2019 |
Sonia Gandhi Returns As Congress Preside | NEW DELHI: Sonia Gandhi will be the Congress president for now, the party's top decision-making body, the Working Committee, decided today after a meeting to choose her son Rahul Gandhi's successor as the party chief. The decision signalled a failure of the party to pick a chief outside the Gandhi family that has led it for most of its 130-year-old history. Rahul Gandhi had announced his decision to quit the party's top post in May after its disastrous performance in the Lok Sabha election. This morning, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi had excused themselves from the zonal body meetings, saying they cannot be part of the selection process. | 10-Aug-2019 |
No surprises. It's Rahul Gandhi again! | New Delhi, Aug 10 (TIWN) Despite the names of veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge and Mukul Wasnik being thrown up as possible successor to the Congress President's post, when the state party leaders finally sat down to confabulate and propose the names for the post -- it came as no surprise -- Rahul Gandhi again! | 10-Aug-2019 |
CWC urges Rahul to reconsider his decisi | New Delhi, Aug 10 (TIWN) The Congress Working Committee that met on Saturday to decide the successor of Rahul Gandhi again urged him to reconsider his decision and said it was yet to take a final call on his resignation. | 10-Aug-2019 |
Khattar's remarks on Kashmiri women desp | New Delhi, Aug 10 (TIWN) Outgoing Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday described Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's remarks on Kashmiri women as "despicable", saying that it reflected what years of RSS training does to the mind of an insecure man. | 10-Aug-2019 |