Chandigarh, February 25 Haryana’s State Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested four people in the IDFC First Bank fraud case, officials said on Wednesday. Of the four arrested, two are ex-IDFC First Bank employees and two are private persons who own a partnership firm, they said. The arrests were made on Tuesday evening as part […]
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Yoshita Singh New York/Washington, February 25 US President Donald Trump has said that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told him that 35 million people would have died if it were not for his intervention in stopping the war between India and Pakistan. In his over 100-minute-long State of the Union address on Tuesday, Trump repeated […]
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The North News Chandigarh, February 25 Police have arrested one person in connection with the killings of two policemen in Gurdaspur near the Indo-Pak border, an officer said on Wednesday. Besides the arrest, one man was shot at and wounded in an encounter with the police in Gurdaspur in the morning, the officer said. Gurdaspur […]
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New Delhi, February 25 Union Home Minister Amit Shah will embark on a three-day visit to the sensitive border areas of Bihar from Wednesday with a focus on demographic changes in the state’s Seemanchal region due to infiltration and illegal religious structures along the border, officials said Tuesday. Shah will camp in the border areas […]
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New Delhi, February 25 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday left for Israel for a two-day visit during which he will have discussions with his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, address the Israeli Parliament, Knesset, and interact with the Indian diaspora. In his departure statement, the prime minister said India and Israel share a robust and multifaceted […]
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Bhopal, February 24 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should scrap the Indo-US trade deal, which he described as being against the interests of Indian farmers. Addressing the ‘Kisan Mahachaupal’ farmers’ rally in Bhopal, Gandhi likened the interim trade deal to an arrow piercing the hearts of Indian farmers. “After […]
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Beijing, February 24 Nearly 200 Siberian tigers at an animal park in China have been put on a rotational “intermittent fasting programme” following excessive feeding by tourists during the just-concluded Chinese New Year holidays. The intermittent fasting of the big cats at the Siberian Tiger Park in Heilongjiang province is aimed at improving the health […]
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Yog Raj Sharma The North News Shimla, February 24 Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has criticised what he described as a “midnight raid” by Delhi Police at Himachal Sadan, calling it unconstitutional and procedurally flawed. Talking to media after returning from Delhi, the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister also renewed his attack on the Bharatiya […]
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New Delhi, February 24 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a two-day visit to Israel beginning Wednesday to shore up bilateral defence and trade cooperation amid the ongoing tensions in the Middle-east including deteriorating ties between the US and Iran. Modi’s engagements will include his address to Israel’s parliament, wide-ranging talks with his Israeli counterpart […]
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The North News New Delhi, February 24 The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to increase the equity investment threshold of public sector enterprise Powergrid from Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 7,500 crore per subsidiary to enable it to bid for capital-intensive transmission projects. The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic […]
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