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Pranab Mukherjee Cremated With Full State Honours

September 1, 2020 Vinayak Barot

NEW DELHI, Sept 1: The former President and Bharat Ratna awardee Pranab Mukherjee was cremated with full state honours at the Lodhi Road crematorium in the national capital on Tuesday afternoon. Earlier in the day, his body was kept at his residence here where a large number of leaders, including President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu and Prime […]

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Union Cabinet Condole the death of Pranab Mukherjee

September 1, 2020 Vinayak Barot

NEW DELHI, Sept 1: The Union Cabinet on Tuesday condoled the death of the former president Pranab Mukherjee in the army hospital in Delhi yesterday. Cabinet also observed silence for two minutes in memory of Mukherjee. The Cabinet meeting chaired by the prime minister Naredra Modi adopted a condolence resolution expressing its profound sorrow at his […]

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Defence: Israel Refuses To Sell AWACS to China

September 1, 2020 Vinayak Barot

New Delhi: Amid tension on Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India, Israel has dropped the deal to sell the AWACS to China. AWACS is an Airborne Warning and Control System which is basically installed in the aircrafts. Before the two decades, the United States had forced Israel to destroy the deal of AWACs with […]

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Illustrious figure Pranab Mukherjee from 1935-2020, nation mourns

August 31, 2020 Prachi Vyas

Eighty-four years old, late former President of India Pranab Mukherjee was a man of unparalled experience in governance with the rare distinction of having served at different times as Foreign, Defense, Commerce and Finance Minister. Inspired by his father’s contribution to the national movement, Pranabji in 1969 embarked into full time public life following his […]

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Agricultural Institutions Will Provide New Opportunities, Will Connect Farming with Research and Advanced Technology: PM

August 29, 2020 Vinayak Barot

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, August 29: The centre is planning to introduce agriculture as a subject at the middle school level in villages to help the students develop agriculture-related knowledge and communicate the farm-based information, its modern techniques and marketing to their family members and other villagers, the prime minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday. […]

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IAF to become stronger: Air Force plans to buy 33 MiG-29, Sukhoi 30 fighter jets

August 29, 2020 Vinayak Barot

Indian Air Force (IAF) in a move to boost its dwindling fighter squadron strength is pushing a proposal for acquiring 33 new combat aircraft including 21 MiG-29s and 12 Sukhoi 30s. A high-level meeting of the Defence Ministry is going to be held in the next few weeks but before that a proposal regarding the […]

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Japan PM resigned over some health issues

August 29, 2020 Prachi Vyas

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 65, resigned yesterday, national broadcaster NHK said, adding that he wanted to avoid causing problems to government due to a worsening of his chronic health condition. Earlier this week, he became Japan’s longest continuously serving prime minister, after taking office in 2012. He has lived with his struggles with ulcerative […]

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RTI disposal rate remained unaffected by the pandemic

August 25, 2020 Prachi Vyas

NEW DELHI, August 25: The rate of disposal of the applications under the Right to Information Act had remained unaffected even during the Corona pandemic and given certain intervals of time, the disposal rate was even higher than the usual, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), and MoS […]

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CWC Meet: Dissenters Disappointed

August 25, 2020 Vinayak Barot

Aditya Hore NEW DELHI, August 25: The Gandhi family has once again succeeded in derailing their critics and re-established that challenging the supremacy of the Gandhis at the helm of affairs in the Congress is no credible option. As the information leaking out from the insiders at the day-long meeting of the Congress Working Committee […]

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Sonia Gandhi to continue as interim congress president

August 24, 2020 Vinayak Barot

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, August 24: A marathon seven-hour long meeting of the Congress Working Committee here on Monday ended inconclusively with Sonia Gandhi agreeing to continue as the interim president for a further period of six months during which the process was expected to be initiated to install an elected president of the party. […]