Rajya Sabha on Wednesday bid farewell to 11 of its members who will retire in November this year. When the House met, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu mentioned that 11 MPs from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand are going to be retiring in November. They include Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav, BSP’s Veer Singh and Raj Babbar of Congress. Others who will retire are: Javed Ali Khan (SP), P L Punia (Congress), Rajaram (BSP), Neeraj Shekhar (BJP), Arun Singh (BJP), Ravi Prakash Verma (SP) and Chandrapal Singh Yadav (SP). Naidu said a number of the…
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The abolition of the monarchy in the Nepal had led to evangelical Christian missionaries flooding the country and converting vulnerable Hindus to Christianity. To curb this practice, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, Kamal Thapa, reiterated his demand for the government to abdicate the ‘secular’ tag and restore the country’s Hindu identity on the Himalayan country’s Constitution Day on the 19th of September. The long-pending demand for the restoration of Nepal’s earlier status as a Hindu state, which the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, led by Kamal Thapa has been putting forward in front of Nepal’s Communist Party-led government time and again, gained…
Google announced the fourth batch of its Google for Start-ups (GFS) Accelerator programme with 20 start-ups who will receive three months of support from the network of internal and external mentors in India. The fourth GFS Accelerator programme has not only doubled its batch size from 10 to 20 start-ups but also expanded the scope of the programme, to include start-ups that are using cutting-edge tech to meaningfully help India and the world adapt and move forward from the pandemic. It comprises start-ups from key categories that require urgent innovation, such as workplace collaboration and connection tools, mental health and…
Former AAP leader Tahir Hussain, Congress leader Ishrat Jahan, activist Khalid Saifi, President of Alumni Association of Jamia Millia Islamia (AAJMI) Shifa-Ur-Rehman and Jamia student Meeran Haider are the names that figure out in Delhi police chargesheet. In relation to the Northeast Delhi riots, the Special Cell of Delhi in a recent charge sheet filed on September 16 has alleged that five accused named in the charge sheet had received an amount of Rs 1.61 crore between December 2019 and February 2020 for executing the riots. Ishrat Jahan used some amount for weapons purchase. According to the charge sheet, out…
As Pakistan is already in the grey list of the FATF which may likely be pushed into blacklist, an investigation by ICIJ has shown that at least as many as six Pakistani banks have been named in money laundering, which make up to at least $2.5 million. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Buzzfeed News carried out an investigation and found that at least 29 suspicious transactions worth about $2.5 million related to Pakistani banks, that may have been used for money laundering. The six banks are Allied Bank, United Bank Limited (UBL), Habib Metropolitan Bank, Bank Alfalah,…
The impact of pandemic fell on many banks in India which began facing crisis. Thus for better monitoring and supervision of banks, the Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2020 was passed in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday (22 September) to bring co-operative banks under the umbrella of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while answering questions on the bill, said many of these banks had faced crisis amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Hindustan Times reported. The RBI is now monitoring their finances and losses, she added. The banks will now be monitored by the central bank like…
Uttar Pradesh’s Noida are going to be developed because the biggest hub in north India, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said. Stating that the state has secured the second position within the country in ‘Ease of Doing Business’ , he said it’s been an outcome of the sustained efforts of the government during the last three years. He said the state has strived to develop infrastructure in terms of power, road, communication, transport, beside strong law and order to realize the dream of 1 trillion economy status in India while contributing to the country’s 5 trillion economy target set…
An unidentified militant was killed on Tuesday in an overnight encounter with security forces in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The encounter began on Monday evening within the Nawad area of Charar-e-Sharief in central Kashmir’s Budgam after the safety forces launched a cordon and search operation there following information about the presence of militants, a police official said. He said the safety forces maintained a decent cordon of the world throughout the night and therefore the gun fight resumed this morning. In the exchange of fireside , a militant was killed, the official said. He said the…
Two medium-intensity earthquakes shook Assam in quick succession early on Tuesday, officials said. No loss of life or property has been reported yet, they said. The first earthquake of magnitude 4.4, with its epicentre at 44 km west of Guwahati, occurred at 1.28 am at a depth of 5 km, the officials said. The second earthquake of magnitude 4.2, with its epicentre in Barpeta district, occurred two seconds later at a depth of 71 km, they added
An unidentified militant was killed on Tuesday in an overnight encounter with security forces in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The encounter began on Monday evening in the Nawad area of Charar-e-Sharief in central Kashmir’s Budgam after the security forces launched a cordon and search operation there following information about the presence of militants, a police official said. He said the security forces maintained a tight cordon of the area throughout the night and the gun fight resumed this morning. In the exchange of fire, a militant was killed, the official said. He said the identity and…