Category Archive for: ‘India News1’
LS Speaker forms panel to probe Bhagwant Mann’s video incident
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has set up a nine member committee to probe the Aam Aadmi Party MP Bhagwant Mann’s video incident which put the Parliament security in peril. As soon as the House met for the day, Sumitra Mahajan announced this saying the …
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President Mukherjee completes 4 years in office
President Pranab Mukherjee has completed four years in office today. To mark the occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Phase-II of the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum. The Phase-II Museum will be a hi-technology story-telling museum. This museum will depict the story of the planning and …
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Cabinet nod to setting up AIIMS in Gorakhpur
The government on Wednesday gave its nod to the establishment of a new All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. The Union Cabinet approved the setting up of AIIMS under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana at an estimated cost of …
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PM Modi & B’desh PM Hasina inaugurate ‘India-Bangladesh Integrated Check Post’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina have jointly inaugurated the second Integrated Check Post along the Benapole-Petrapole part of India – Bangladesh border today. Prime Ministers of the two countries have joined the inauguration ceremony from Dhaka and New Delhi through …
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India first country to become YAWS-free
India achieves yet another public health milestone; becomes first country to be declared free of Yaws, an infection of the skin and bones, much ahead of WHO global target year of 2020. India has acknowledged as the first country in the world to become YAWS-free. …
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EC to hear case against 21 AAP MLAs
The Election Commission will hold a hearing on Thursday for 21 AAP legislators, who have been made parliamentary secretaries and are facing the risk of disqualification from the Assembly, in the office of profit case. At the first hearing, the commission may also decide on …
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Kashmir Unrest: Situation in the valley improves
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti’s appeal for calm, situation in Kashmir improve. no fresh reports of any untoward incidents yesterday. Health Ministry sends high level team of eye specialists from AIIMS to J&K. The unrest that erupted in Jammu and …
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India launches operation sankat mochan to evacuate stranded citizens
Ministry of External Affairs launches operation “sankat mochan” to evacuate Indian nationals from war torn South Sudan. General VK Singh heading operation as two C-17s depart for Juba. India on Wednesday launched operation ‘Sankat Mochan’ to evacuate its citizens from South Sudan. India has sent …
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PM Modi retraces Mahatma Gandhi’s South African train journey
Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a short train journey from Pentrich to the historic Pietermaritzburg Railway station in Durban, where Father of the Nation was forced out of the train. The train resembled the one on which Mahatma Gandhi ji had travelled. On the footsteps …
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India is a bright star in the global economy: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the India-South Africa business meet in Pretoria on Friday, July 8 2016. During his address he said that India is a bright star in the global economy and there are several opportunities for investment in the 2 growing economies. India …
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