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New Delhi, Mar 12: The government will continue to push for reforms, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Saturday. "My agenda for reform to transform is yet to be finished," Mr Modi said the 'Advancing Asia' conference in New Delhi. India, he said, has dispelled the myth that democracy and rapid economic growth cannot co-exist. He was speaking on the addressing at the summit hosted by his

New Delhi, Mar 12: A fresh poster issuing death threats to JNU student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who are facing charge of sedition, reportedly appeared in New Delhi on Friday, days after a similar poster announced a reward of Rs 11 lakh on Kumar which landed a man in jail. An image of the poster was circulated on WhatsApp and shared on social media with a

Hyderabad, Mar 12: Indian National Congress topped the chart of political parties in India by declaring the highest total income at Rs 1,687.12 crore, followed by the BJP, for the period 2010-11 to 2013-14, according to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). "The total income of national parties, excluding BJP, INC and the Nationalist Congress Party for 2014-15, collectively for

Ahmedabad, Mar 11: One of the two 220 MW units of Kakrapar Atomic Power Station(KAPS) in Gujarat's Surat district was today shut down after leakage of heavy water and a temporary emergency situation was declared but there was no radioactive leak and all workers are safe. According to officials, the leakage of heavy water that is used in cooling off the nuclear reactor core was detected around 9 am

New Delhi, Mar 11: The Aadhaar Bill, aimed at providing a unique identity to the residents, was passed in the Lok Sabha today. The bill also serves the purpose of ensuring that the government's subsidies reach the beneficiaries. The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016, was passed by a voice vote after a brief debate, during which Finance

New Delhi, Mar 11: Under fire from the media, politicians and middle class, liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who owes Rs 9,000 crore to various banks, has reiterated that he is not an absconder but an international business man who travels to and from India frequently. Mallya had left the country on 2 March, the day the State Bank of India filed a petition in the Bengaluru debt recovery tribunal seeking

New Delhi, Mar 11: Amid a raging row at JNU, it has now emerged that its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is facing sedition charge, was fined by the varsity administration last year for allegedly "misbehaving" with a girl student and "threatening" her. The incident had occurred on June 10, 2015, when the girl student asked Kanhaiya, who at the time was not the students' union

New Delhi, Mar 11: Tweeting on Friday morning, Vijay Mallya cleared his position that he is not an absconder but an international businessman who will comply with the law of land. He tweeted, "I am an international businessman. I travel to and from India frequently. I did not flee from India and neither am I an absconder.” He also added in separate tweet, "As an Indian MP I fully respect and will

New Delhi, Mar 10: Congress today accused the BJP- led government of "criminal consipracy" in allowing businessman Vijay Mallya, facing probe in several loan default cases, to fly out of the country, as Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought to corner the main opposition party by saying the loans were given to him during UPA rule. "My charge against this government is that when so many agencies were

New Delhi, Mar 10: The National Green Tribunal on Wednesday cleared the decks for the three-day cultural extravaganza of Art of Living (AOL) on the flood plains of Yamuna river from Friday but imposed a fine of Rs five crores on it as environmental compensation. After posing tough questions, the tribunal also slapped fine of Rs five lakh on DDA and Rs one lakh on Delhi Pollution Control Committee