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New Delhi, Aug 7: In a bid to promote sports in the country, Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore said on Monday that a games period will be made mandatory in schools after reducing the syllabus by 50% by next year. “We have come to a stage where sports is not a part of education; it is education. The ministry of education is ensuring that by 2019, the syllabus in schools is reduced by 50% and

Dubai, Aug 7: Arab countries have lined up in support of Saudi Arabia after it took trade and diplomatic measures against Canada on Monday in response to the latter’s interference in the internal affairs of the Kingdom. The move came in response to statements demanding the immediate release of what Canada called “civil society and women’s rights activists” that were made on the foreign policy

Lucknow, Aug 6: Declaring that there was a complete "jungle raj" in BJP-ruled states, BSP chief Mayawati on Monday said there should be no cover-up of the incidents of alleged sexual exploitation reported from shelter homes in Bihar's Muzaffarpur town and Uttar Pradesh's Deoria district. At least 24 girls were rescued from a shelter home in Deoria on Sunday after allegations of sexual exploitation

Islamabad, Aug 6: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) parliamentary committee on Monday officially nominated Imran Khan as the party’s prime ministerial candidate, according to a media report. The party of the 65-year-old cricketer-turned-politician emerged as the single largest side in the National Assembly in the July 25 general elections. Mr. Khan was nominated by PTI’s parliamentary committee

Deoria, Aug 6: Twenty-four girls were rescued from a shelter home here after allegation of their sexual exploitation came to light, police said today. Girija Tripathi and her husband Mohan Tripathi, who operated the shelter home, and its superintendent Kanchanlata were arrested, they said. This case comes close on the heels of alleged sexual abuse of young girls at a state-funded shelter home in

Washington, Aug 6: Inspired by the Gandhian principle of ‘Be the change that you wish to see in the world’, Indian-American entrepreneur Suneel Gupta is seeking to enter U.S. Congress to fight against the special interests of the corporate sector, which he believes have peaked under the Donald Trump Administration. “Our family has always been very principled in the ideals that if you don’t like

Riyadh, Aug 6: Saudi Arabia on Sunday recalled its ambassador in Canada and froze all new trade and investment deals with the country after the Canadian foreign ministry called on Riyadh to free jailed civil rights activists. Besides this, Saudi Arabia has also withdrawn its envoy to Ottawa. "Canada and all other nations need to know that they can't claim to be more concerned than the Kingdom over

New Delhi, Aug 5: As many as 21 public sector banks and three major private sector lenders collected a whopping Rs 5,000 crore from customers for non-maintenance of minimum balance in their accounts in 2017-18, according to banking data. India's largest lender State Bank of India, which suffered a staggering net loss of Rs 6,547 crore during 2017-18, led the pack in penalising its customers for

Chandauli, Aug 5: BJP chief Amit Shah today dared the Congress to clear its stand in the Rajya Sabha on the amended OBC bill, saying it will expose whether the party was really for the backward communities. At the same time, he charged the opposition with playing vote bank politics on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) issue. The Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017, commonly known as

Islamabad, Aug 5: Islamabad wants to play a constructive and positive role between Iran and Saudi Arabia, this was conveyed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan to Tehran’s envoy Mehdi Honardoost on Saturday. The Iranian ambassador called on the PTI supremo at his Bani Gala residence to congratulate him on his election win, a press release issued by the party said. There has been a