Bengaluru, July 9 (IANS) Ambulances across Karnataka need not wait for a VIP convoy to pass for rushing patients to hospitals for emergency treatment, a top city police official said on Monday."As per the orders passed from the state police chief Neelamani N. Raju, the traffic police in the city and across the state will make way for the ambulances...
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday termed the Goods and Services Tax (GST) as the best example of cooperative and collaborative federalism in the world and claimed that the successful implementation of the new tax regime in the country shows India is ready for bigger reforms that would lead to long term benefits."GST is the...
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia met a team of 20 individuals who travelled to seven UNESCO sites within 12 hours by using public transport and praised their efforts to showcase that the mode of travel is safe and accessible.The team members, between the age group of five years to 45 years, started their tour...
Chandigarh, July 9 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday made it clear that government employees who are found positive in the dope test to be conducted on them would not be punished or sacked but would be provided treatment.He said that the identity of employees testing positive will also be kept confidential. Chairing a review meeting of the...
Paris, July 9 (IANS) Italian veteran goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said on Monday that he felt thrilled to be in the French capital as the newest footballers of Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain.The legendary keeper, who won the 2006 FIFA World Cup with Italy, spoke during his official presentation ceremony at the Parc des Princes stadium, after leaving serial Serie A...
Gandhinagar, July 9 (IANS) Firebrand Gujarat Dalit activist and legislator Jignesh Mevani on Monday expressed his support to Patidar leader Hardik Patel, who is set to launch a fast unto death next month to press for his demand for reservations to his community, but appealed to him to go in for an indefinite 'dharna' (sit-in) instead."I will definitely be supporting...
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Accusing the BJP of practising politics of "hate and violence", the Congress on Monday said that mob lynching incidents have gone up by over four times in 2017 while 61 such incidents had taken place this year.Addressing a press conference here, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari also demanded removal of Union Minister Jayant Sinha over his...
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) The Delhi High Court grantedmore time to Jawaharlal Nehru University's Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) to complete its probe into the alleged misconduct of one of its professors, accused of sexually harassing women students.Justice Vibhu Bakhru granted two weeks' time to complete the ICC proceedings against the Professor Atul Kumar Johri, accused of sexually harassing women...
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Terming the MSP for farmers produce announced by the Narendra Modi government as "too little, too late", Rajasthan Congress President Sachin Pilot has said that the government must ensure healthy markets where the farmers are able to sell their produce at profitable margins and the Minimum Support Price (MSP) should be the last resort."I think...
New Delhi, July 9 (IANS) Dubbing female genital mutilation as violative of bodily integrity of a girl child, the Supreme Court on Monday said that religious practices cannot be cited to justify such mutilation in the Dawoodi Bohra community.The observation came from a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud in the course of...
