Written by Sukhbir Siwach | Singhra (karnal) | Updated: December 18, 2020 8:29:11 am Followers queue up to pay their respects to Baba Ram Singh at Singhra gurdwara. (Express photo by Sukhbir Siwach) The SIKH preacher who died of a gunshot wound on Wednesday in Kundli near the Singhu border …
Read More »Jharkhand Scholarship Scam: CBI Traces Online Trail from Bihar to Jharkhand District at Research Center
Written by Abhishek Angad | Ranchi | Updated: December 18, 2020 8:25:13 am In its report, the Dhanbad administration referred to the role of various intermediaries, school owners, a lawyer and district officials involved in the verification of applicants: 11 FIRs have been registered in the district. (Representative image) TRACKING …
Read More »4 months after an unprecedented dissent, Sonia will meet tomorrow with some of the 23 letter writers
Written by Manoj CG | New Delhi | Updated: December 18, 2020 8:03:41 am Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi is expected to be part of the meeting. Sonia Gandhi will meet on Saturday with some of the 23 top leaders who had written to him in August seeking radical changes …
Read More »In UP, farmers receive Rs 50 lakh notice for protests, police say they will review the sum
Written by Amil Bhatnagar | Sambhal | Updated: December 18, 2020 7:54:51 am The notices of Rs 50 lakh each were sent to six leaders in Sambhal, mainly officials from the Bhartiya Kisan (Asli) Union. Days after UP’s subdivisional magistrate in Sambhal sent out notices calling on agricultural leaders to …
Read More »Prime Minister Modi played a ‘major role’ in the fall of Kamal Nath’s government, Vijayvargiya claims
By: Express News Service | Bhopal | Updated: December 17, 2020 5:39:50 pm BJP National Secretary General Kailash Vijayvargiya (Photo / Express File) BJP Secretary General Kailash Vijayvargiya said Prime Minister Narendra Modi played a “major role” in bringing down the congressional government led by Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh. …
Read More »The armed forces gave Rs 203.67 cr of the daily salary to the PM-CARES Fund
Written by Shyamlal Yadav | New Delhi | Updated: December 18, 2020 7:59:16 am Previously, RTI responses showed contributions of Rs 204.75 million from seven public banks and other financial institutions, including the Reserve Bank of India, plus Rs 21.81 million from various central educational institutions, all of them of …
Read More »Bengal: Suvendu leaves TMC, many likely to follow BJP; rebels flag wrath with Kishor
Written by Ravik Bhattacharya, Atri Mitra | Kolkata | December 18, 2020 4:38:53 am Several TMC rebel leaders and MLAs will join the BJP along with Suvendu in a public meeting chaired by Interior Minister Amit Shah in Medinipur over the weekend, sources said. The rest are likely to wait …
Read More »Those who stop supply trains to soldiers cannot be farmers: Agriculture Minister, Tomar
Written by Harikishan Sharma, Liz Mathew | New Delhi | December 18, 2020 4:42:31 am Tomar said political parties, who have lost ground, have misled farmers by telling them that their land will be taken away under the new laws. With farmers’ unions rejecting the concessions he proposed to end …
Read More »Explained: What is currency manipulation and why has the United States put India and others on its currency watch list?
Written by Prabha Raghavan, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 17, 2020 11:59:48 pm Currency manipulation is when a country is artificially lowering the value of its currency to gain an unfair advantage over others. (Bloomberg photo: Dhiraj Singh, file) The United States has once again …
Read More »Government boost for sugar mills: Rs 5,361 cr from settled quotas, new subsidy worth Rs 3,500 cr
Written by Parthasarathi Biswas | Pune | December 17, 2020 5:51:37 am The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which met on Wednesday, also approved an export incentive of up to 60 lakh tonnes (lt) of sugar for the 2020-21 season. Just one month after announcing a Rs 65,000 crore boost …
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