For a country that’s already been reeling under an economic down-slide and lack of new employment opportunities, slumping sales of cars and motorcycles have emerged as a major reason to worry. They are triggering massive job cuts in the auto sector but there’s little hope of a quick recovery. There was a brief euphoria in …
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IAS officer Ashok Khemka has been transferred yet again making this his 53rd transfer in 28 years of service. Reacting to his his latest posting, saying the “reward for honesty is humiliation”. Haryana government on Wednesday issued transfer order to 14 IAS officers, including Khemka. “Phir tabadla (transferred again),” the 1991-batch officer tweeted. “Same thing again. Constitution Day was celebrated …
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India’s economy is on a downward spiral and even our Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman admitted the same in Rajya Sabha. Sitharaman conceded the growth might have slowed down but the economy will never slip into recession. The Upper House of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, was engaged in a serious discussion on the current state of the Indian economic situation. What was …
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There seems to be a conscious effort by BJP’s controversial Member of Parliament, Pragya Thakur, to revere Nathuram Godse, the murderer of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi. She has said it on previous occasions, and this time she chose temple of Indian democracy, the Parliament house to repeat something that is nothing short of a hate slogan. A person …
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The sight of manual scavengers cleaning our dirty sewers sans any protective gear is not uncommon. Cleaning sewers without any protective suits does a great deal of harm to the health and well-being of these scavengers. The calls for safety equipment being provided to these safai karamcharis have been on the rise and in a welcome move, Coimbatore municipal corporation …
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In a completely unanticipated turn of events on Saturday morning, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) joined hands and ruling out a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance. BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the chief minister of Maharashtra this morning with NCP’s Ajit Pawar as his deputy. The development stunned all as on Friday evening NCP leader Sharad …
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Twenty-seven-year-old Reema Juffali is all set to shatter the glass ceiling and carve a path for herself as she gears up to get behind the wheels as the first Saudi woman to race in the kingdom. Juffali is the first women to challenge participants in the male-dominated motor sport. Until June last year, such feats for women were unimaginable in …
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An expenditure of Rs 255 crore has been incurred on chartered flights in the past three years on prime minister Narendra Modi’s foreign engagements. The Rajya Sabha was briefed about the foreign tours of the president, vice president, prime minister, external affairs minister yesterday in a written reply. Read more Here’s more top news of the day: 1) Self-Styled Godman …
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A wild rogue elephant, which was tranquilized recently by the forest officials in Assam has died due to an apparent cardiac arrest. The 35-year old bull elephant was captured, after tranquilizing, from Rongjuli forest division in Western Assam’s Goalpara district on November 11. Forest department shifted the rogue to Orang national park on November 12. AFP According to officials, the …
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We all respect our brave soldiers. We may not be able to fight the enemy like them, however, we miss no chance to tell the stories of their heroics while they save the borders of our country. Four men from Hyderabad have now completed a ‘Bharat Yatra’ across the length and breadth of India to pay tribute to the fallen …
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