New Delhi: IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said he is in talks with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari to link motor vehicle driving licences with the biometric identifier Aadhaar. “I am taking with Nitin Gadkari ji to finalise the linking up all the motor mehicle driving licences with Aadhaar,” Prasad said, while addressing the […]
Pakur (Jharkhand): A named FIR has been lodged against 12 leaders of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) in Jharkhand on the charges of illegal and anti-national activities, police said on February 27, according to PTI. The FIR was also lodged against 60 unidentified cadres of the PFI with the Muffasil police station of Pakur […]
Hyderabad : Nearly three crore fake and duplicate ration cards have been cancelled during the three years of the NDA government, CR Chaudhary, Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said, reports PTI. This is due to the ‘Aadhar- ration card’ link up which had also saved the country Rs 17,000 […]
New Delhi : The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi and Haryana governments to identify and address the sources of pollution in river Yamuna. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB), which supplies water to Delhi, had approached the tribunal demanding that Haryana be asked to take urgent steps to check the “dangerous level of ammonia” […]
New Delhi: The Government’s currency printing press has blatantly thumbed the nose at the RTI (Right to Information) Act. The printing press reimbursed from the state exchequer the amount paid for a penalty imposed on one of its officers by the Central Information Commission. The officer was fined by the CIC. The law says that […]
New Delhi, Feb 18: E-commerce major Amazon.in today said it has crossed the 3-lakh seller base in less than five years of the company s operations in India. Of this, one lakh new merchants were on-boarded in seven months. Amazon, which is locked in an intense battle with homegrown rival Flipkart, has been aggressively ramping […]
Lucknow, Feb 18 : A fake education board, which operated in several states and ‘duped’ hundreds of students, was busted by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force, and seven persons arrested, reports PTI. In UP alone, 62 educational institutes are reportedly affiliated to this board, while three websites – www.upsosb.ac.in, www.upsos.co.in and www.upsos.in – were […]
Despite entering India a year after Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video service has pipped the former. At the end of 2017, Prime held nearly 10% of the total over-the-top (OTT) streaming market with over 610,000 subscribers, according to data shared by London-based IHS Markit with Quartz. In comparison, Netflix, which launched its video service in India […]
Just about a month after cancelling government subsidized Haj pilgrimages , the BJP is offering Christians free trips to Jerusalem if elected to power in Nagaland, reported northeastern news outlets. It’s unclear if the BJP is offering this to all of India’s Christians, or only to Christians in the northeast, or only to Christians in […]
Prince Henrik of Denmark, the husband of Queen Margrethe famous in Europe for his ‘public unhappiness’ at never being named king, has died at the age of 83. The controversial French-born prince had been diagnosed with dementia last year and was admitted to hospital in January with a lung infection, says BBC report. Frustrated with […]
Archbishop Joseph Arshad was installed as Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi Diocese in Pakistan’s Northern Province on Sunday, Feb. 10. He replaces Bishop Rufin Anthony who died in October 2016. Archbishop Arshad had previously been bishop of Faisalabad and was conferred by the pope with the personal title “archbishop” when he was transferred to Islamabad-Rawalpindi Diocese on […]
It is carnival time in Goa, with today, Shrove Tuesday being the last day of the celebrations, Wednesday marking the start of Lent. In Panjim (Panaji) , the festivities began on Sunday, (Feb. 10) with 48 floats, led by the triumphant entry of King Momo, or Momus, the Greek god of satire and laughter, and […]
