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New Delhi, May 29: Power Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha was today appointed as the next Cabinet Secretary of the government. He will succeed Ajit Seth who has been holding the position for the last four years. Sinha, a 1977-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, has been asked to take over as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in Cabinet Secretariat, an official release said. He will formally take

New Delhi, May 29: A leak of radioactive substance, which had come from Turkey, was detected at the cargo complex of the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here today. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, while addressing a press conference here, said the leakage has been "plugged." A team of atomic energy department has also reached the spot, the Home Minister said. Sources said about four

New Delhi, May 29: Stepping up the offensive, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at BJP's ideological mentor RSS saying its belief was "murdering" individuality and that thought process is now running the country in which only one man knows everything from farmers to clothes. In a brief but sharp speech at the national convention of NSUI, the Congress Vice President also took a dig at the Prime

New Delhi, May 28: The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is mandatory if the Army has to be deployed in Jammu and Kashmir or any other state for internal security, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said. "Mine is not the Ministry to decide about it (AFSPA). It is very simple that if the Act is existing in that particular area, the Army can operate in that area. If it is not there, Army

New Delhi, May 28: The AAP government on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court challenging the Centre’s recent notification giving the Lieutenant Governor absolute powers in appointing bureaucrats in the national capital. The petition was mentioned before a bench of justices B.D. Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva, saying, “The Delhi government has decided to move against the Ministry of Home Affairs’ (MHA

New Delhi, May 28: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today rejected Prime Minister Narendra Modi's veiled charge that Sonia Gandhi was an "unconstitutional authority" and instead accused the BJP and the government of "running to" RSS with a "pernicious" hidden agenda. He attacked Modi saying he runs an "over-centralised" government and it will not go too far if it continues like this. In a dig

New Delhi, May 28: The death toll due to intense heat wave sweeping across many parts of the country continued to mount and reached 1412 on Wednesday, with only Andhra Pradesh and Telangana accounting for 1360 deaths. As per the latest figures, the toll due to heat wave in Andhra Pradesh stood 1020 while it was 340 in Telangana. While 168 deaths were reported in Andhra Pradesh since yesterday, 74

New Delhi, May 27: The Delhi assembly on Wednesday took on the central government by adopting a resolution against its order which gave Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung the final say in the postings and transfers of bureaucrats in the capital. Passed by voice vote on the last day of the two-day special session of the assembly, called by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government, the resolution termed

New Delhi, May 27: India has lodged a strong protest with Swedish national daily 'Dagens Nyhetter' for putting out "slip of the tongue" comments by President Pranab Mukherjee during an interview to it, saying it was done in a "most condescending" manner and was "unprofessional and unethical". Indian envoy to Sweden Banashri Bose Harrison, in a letter to Editor-In-Chief Peter Wolodarski, said she

New Delhi, May 27: Over 120 obsolete laws have been repealed by the Narendra Modi government, while another 945 which have lost relevance are awaiting parliamentary approval to lose their place in statute books. According to the data compiled by the Legislative Department of the Law Ministry, with the passage of two bills in Parliament 125 archaic laws have been repealed. Two more bills are