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New Delhi, Jul 24: The Centre has "zero tolerance" towards incidents of communal violence and such incidents have shown a declining trend across the country, Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy said on Wednesday. Replying to a query during Question Hour in Rajya Sabha, the minister said incidents of communal violence have declined to 708 in 2018 from 823 in 2013, he said. "The

New Delhi, Jul 23: In the first 50 days of its second term in office, the Narendra Modi government has spent around Rs 8,500 crore on the acquisition of weapon systems including missiles and spares for the Indian Army and the Air Force. According to Defence Ministry sources, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has spent around Rs 8,000 crore in procuring missiles such as the Spice-2000, Strum Ataka ATGMs

New Delhi, Jul 23: The Delhi Police was granted time on Tuesday till September 18 to obtain the requisite sanction in the JNU sedition case to prosecute former Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others. The Delhi Police informed Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Manish Khurana that the sanction is still pending before the Home Department. "Sanction in the present matter could not be

New Delhi, Jul 23: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said the Centre is hell-bent on subverting the RTI Act which now stands on the "brink of extinction", a day after Lok Sabha passed amendments to the Act amid strong opposition protests. In a statement, she said it is clear that the present central government sees the RTI Act as a "nuisance" and wants to destroy the status and independence

New Delhi, Jul 23: Opposition leaders are angrily demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi clarify his position in Parliament about President Donald Trump mediating India’s long-running dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said in Parliament on Tuesday that Modi made no such request to Trump as the US president had claimed. Opposition leaders Anand Sharma and D

Lucknow, Jul 23: In a bid to conserve the environment, the Uttar Pradesh government has urged over 14,000 Hajj pilgrims from the state capital to plant a sapling before embarking on the annual pilgrimage, an official said. Secretary of UP Haj Committee Rahul Gupta said Hajj pilgrims departing from Lucknow and Varanasi have been asked to plant a sapling in their respective districts. The scheme-

New Delhi, Jul 22: The BJP on Monday reprimanded its Lok Sabha lawmaker Pragya Singh Thakur for her controversial remarks on 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' and instructed her not to give such statements in the future, said sources. The parliamentarian from Bhopal, Thakur, had arrived at the party's office in Delhi earlier today to meet BJP working president JP Nadda and BJP general secretary

Sriharikota, Jul 22: Within minutes of the launch of India's indigenous moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Monday afternoon, the GSLVMkIII-M1 injected the probe mission spacecraft into the Earth's orbit. Monitoring every second of the moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation Chief K Sivan and other scientists celebrated

Kasaragod, Jul 22: Holidays were announced on Monday for school and educational institutions in Kannur, Kasaragod and parts of Kottayam due to heavy rainfall in the state. Heavy rains under the influence of South-west monsoon have been predicted in the state and there is a red alert in some districts of the state. Earlier, due to the heavy rainfall, shutters of four dams have been opened. The

Mumbai, Jul 22: The Bombay High Court on Monday adjourned till August 2 the hearing on the application moved by Prasad Purohit, an accused in the Malegaon blast case, seeking untruncated copies of the witnesses' statements that are part of the charge sheet. The matter was adjourned by a division bench of Justice Indrajit Mohanty and Justice AM Badar after the counsel for the National Investigation