New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Work on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (MAHSR) Project (508 km) is in full swing with foundation work already completed across 406 km, and track laying starting on 127 km of viaduct, Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Parliament on Wednesday.
Kolkata, Aug 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday lashed out at the Centre for bringing the 130th Constitution Amendment bill, saying it was a step towards "super-emergency" and "end the democratic era of India forever".
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) The BJP on Wednesday hit out at Congress MP and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav over their ongoing ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’ and accused them of 'spreading lies' to mislead people. It stated that such tactics would never secure them a mandate.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) India now has 14,329 electric buses operating on the roads as part of the National Electric Bus Programme (NEBP), the Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
Dehradun, Aug 20 (IANS) The Uttarakhand Assembly on Wednesday cleared the Minority Educational Institutions Bill, which seeks to regulate all the minority institutions in the state by setting up a new authority, amid chaos and uproar by the Opposition members.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Shashi Tharoor, the Congress Working Committee member and senior party MP, has once again made a remark independent of his party line and this time on the controversial ‘disqualification’ bills.
Mumbai, Aug 20 (IANS) In a sharp jibe at the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) alliance, BJP MLA Ram Kadam on Wednesday said that the Thackeray brothers — Uddhav and Raj — will "once again score zero" in upcoming elections, following their complete rout in the BEST Employees' Cooperative Credit Society polls.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) In a major twist to the case involving the attack on Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, a CCTV footage dated August 19 has surfaced showing the accused, Rajesh Bhai Khimji Bhai Sakariya, conducting a recce and recording a video of the Chief Minister's Shalimar Bagh residence.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) Delhi Ministers on Wednesday alleged that the man who attacked Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had been conducting a recce of her official residence for nearly 24 hours, even recording videos of the premises and spending the night in the vicinity, indicating that the assault was a pre-planned one.
New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS) B. Sudershan Reddy, the INDIA bloc candidate, who is set to take on National Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee C.P. Radhakrishnan in the Vice-Presidential election, slated on September 9, said on Wednesday that he is not affiliated with any political party.
