With an eye on the next Lok Sabha poll, the BJP will organise training workshops across the country for its leaders from backward castes and other backward class morchas. The focus will be on Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, party sources said. OBC leaders who have joined the BJP will also be invited to the meetings. The strategy to retain the […]
» Read moreFormer NIA chief Sharad Kumar was on June 10 appointed vigilance commissioner in the probity watchdog CVC, officials said. The 62-year-old Kumar, a 1979-batch IPS officer of the Haryana cadre, retired in September 2017 after heading the National Investigation Agency for over four years. According to an official order, Mr. Kumar has been appointed vigilance commissioner in the Central Vigilance […]
» Read moreThe trend of miniscule reduction in petrol and diesel prices continued for the third consecutive day on Friday with oil firms cutting rates by 6 paise and 5 paise a litre respectively. The reductions follow softening of international oil rates and the rupee gaining against the US dollar. Petrol in Delhi now costs Rs 78.29 a litre, down from Rs […]
» Read moreA 21-year-old pregnant woman has been allegedly gang-raped by an auto-rickshaw driver and his two accomplices in Manesar. The woman, who is over two months pregnant, told the police that she was on her way home in auto-rickshaw on May 21 afternoon when three men in the vehicle force-fed her sedative drug and gang-raped her. A native of Uttar Pradesh, […]
» Read morePetrol prices touched fresh record levels in Delhi and Mumbai on Monday, at Rs 76.57 and Rs 84.40 per litre respectively. On Sunday, the fuel price breached the all-time high levels touched in 2013 and was priced at Rs 76.24 and Rs 84.07 per litre in both the cities. According to observers, this rise in transportation fuel prices can be […]
» Read moreWoman and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Tuesday proposed amendment of an existing “scheme” for boys, who have been raped or sexually exploited, to be compensated on the lines of a similar law for girls. She also announced a study on male survivors of child sexual abuse — a first-of-its-kind study exclusively for males. “Another much neglected sphere of […]
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