Former Union Minister Swami Chinmayanand, accused of rape by a law student, was arrested today, his counsel said.
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Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today alleged that the Modi government was “shattering” people’s trust in LIC by investing the state-run insurance firm’s money in loss-making companies.
The government has limited fiscal space to support growth, but low inflation can help the monetary authority ease policy rates further and help boost the economy that has badly lost its momentum, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said yesterday.
DMK chief M K Stalin pooh-poohed claims that his party surrendered to the Centre by putting off a protest against ”Hindi imposition,” saying it cannot be cowed down and remained firm on its stand.
Blaming the Congress for the plight of Kashmiris for decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for “hugging each Kashmiri and creating a “new paradise” in the valley.
Skipper Virat Kohli on Wednesday said India will try out new players and test their temperament in the ongoing series against South Africa.
Former Jharkhand Congress chief Ajoy Kumar joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today in the presence of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia.
The UN experts “have already left for Saudi Arabia and obviously they will be doing their job according to the mandate that the Security Council has given them,” Guterres told reporters. While saying that he would wait to see the results of the investigation, he said he “strongly” condemned the attack. “I think this attack is a dramatic escalation in the Gulf and I believe that we absolutely need to stop this kind of escalation,” he said.
The government today issued an ordinance to ban e-cigarettes, making the production, import, export, transport, sale or advertisements of such ”alternative” smoking devices a cognizable offence attracting jail term and fine.