A S Kashyap Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Deepak Vijayvargiya on Friday accused the Congress of fabricating stories to tarnish the party’s image over the recent controversy surrounding Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan.
” Congress is propagating fabricated things which have no basis. They are trying to tarnish BJP’s image,” said Vijayvargiya.
The Congress party on Friday took a dig at the Delhi Government’s maiden Budget, saying the Aam Aadmi Party ( AAP) dispensation was a ‘fake Budget government’.
“This is not just a fake degree government, but also a fake budget government,” Congress leader Ajay Maken said at a press briefing.
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Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, who presented the state budget in the Delhi Assembly on Thursday, announced that all the colleges and rural villages in the city will get free Wi-Fi in the first phase.
The highlights are as follows:
Rs. 5,908 crore is allocated for the municipal corporation and Rs. 4,993 crore to be returned to Centre as loans.
District Urban Development Authority to be set up for development and maintenance works.
All colleges and rural villages in the city to get free Wi-Fi in the first phase.
Terrorists have killed one police official and injured two other persons after they opened fire outside a court room in Peshawar on Thursday.
The incident occurred in the judicial complex in Peshawar, the capital of province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is not confirmed if the two injured victims were also policemen.
The injured were rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where their condition is said to be stable.
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) president Sumit Mazumder on Thursday appealed to the body’s members to pledge to give up their LPG subsidies.
“The ‘Give It Up’ campaign is a novel way to strike at the conscience of the citizens. I appeal to CII members to pledge to give up their LPG subsidies”, said Mazumder, while speaking at the CII national council meeting held here.
He also asserted that CII is committed to playing a key role for a more inclusive and equitable society and are happy to partner with government for such initiatives.
Courtney Love Cobain has been attacked by violent anti- Uber taxi protesters in Paris.
The 50-year-old tweeted a picture of her taxi’s shattered window after it was attacked by cabbies and her driver was taken hostage, the Daily Mail reported.
Love told fellow singer Kanye West in a tweet that she might have to turn back and hide out with him. She also published a string of furious tweets asking the French President François Hollande where his police were after her car was apparently attacked by picketers shortly after leaving an airport.
Chief of the Joint Staff of the Japan Self-Defense Forces has said that the country may join US forces in its regular patrolling in the South China Sea.
Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano said that the recent moves by China to build artificial islands have created “very serious potential concerns” for Japan, reported The Wall Street Journal.
Japan does not have any plans to conduct surveillance in the South China Sea currently but the country may consider it, depending on the situation, Adm. Kawano said.
Indian multinational IT company Wipro has announced the conclusion of its two-month long internal virtual hackathon for its employees, ‘CodeStorm AppHack’, aimed at fuelling innovation and igniting the creativity of the workers.
Over 250 teams of employees from across the globe participated in the hackathon, competing with each other and witnessing over 2,000 collective hours of coding by workers.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has climbed up two places into 10th spot in the ICC’s latest rankings for bowlers after taking six scalps in the recently concluded series against Bangladesh.
Ashwin was the leading wicket-taker for India but remained well behind rookie Bangladesh left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman, who claimed 13 wickets during his debut series.
The spinner was the only Indian bowler to feature in the top-10 list.
Meanwhile, India retained their second spot in the ODI rankings despite losing the three-match series 2-1 against Bangladesh in Mirpur. (ANI)
With the United States Supreme Court set to issue a judgement on whether state bans on same sex marriage are constitutional, couples across the country are busy planning their weddings, anticipating a positive judgement.
The court will decide if the U.S. states should be required to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples and if a state should be forced to recognise a gay marriage performed in another state.
If the court gives a nod to same sex marriages, thousands of couples are expected to rush to local courthouses, reported USA Today.
Launching three much awaited urban initiatives- ‘Smart City’, AMRUT and ‘Housing for All’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon the attending representatives of around 500 cities across the country to take upon themselves to decide the pace and direction of development.
The Prime Minister drew special attention to the plight of millions who have to migrate to cities in search of livelihood, a phenomenon that is going to accentuate in future.
A new report has recently clarified a long-standing misconception that eyes go red and stingy after swimming because of urine and not chlorine.
The Centers for Disease Control recently teamed up Water Quality and Health Council and the National Swimming Pool Foundation for their annual Healthy Swimming Program, which seeks to educate people about the health benefits of swimming and gives tips on water safety, E! Online has reported.
The New Development Bank (NDB) will be open to equity and capital market tools for project finances, its president KV Kamath has said.
“I hope to work with BRICS and other member countries over the next few months so as to build project pipelines by April 2016. I am engaged with the government to ensure that there are some Indian projects in the infrastructure space that can be taken up then,” Kamath said, while speaking at the CII National Council Meeting in Mumbai.
Blaming U.S. President Barack Obama for dividing the country, American politician and business magnate Donald Trump has reportedly said that the African-American youth have ‘no spirit.’
Referring to the South Carolina church shooting at the annual dinner of Maryland’s Grand Old Party on June 23, Trump said that the African-American youth had reached a point where ‘they’ve just about never done more poorly’.
He noted that killings were taking place on an hourly basis in places like Baltimore and Chicago and many others, reported The Independent.
James Frain has signed on as a series regular and a new villain for FOX’s ‘Gotham’ season 2.
The actor will play as new villain Theo Galavan and brother of Tabitha, who will go on to become DC Comics super-villain Tigress, Deadline.com reported.
A new Gotham arrival, Galavan is the savior the city has been waiting for; he is sexy, heroic, and lovingly devoted to his sister Tabitha (yet to be cast). But behind Galavan’s altruism is a centuries-old vendetta. Galavan and Tabitha will take chaos and violence to a new level in order to bleed Gotham. (ANI)
Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal has promised to be a doer as the president of the United States following his announcement to run for the race in 2016.
According to The Washington Post, Jindal said that the US has “a bunch of great talkers running for president”, adding that now it was time for a “doer”.
He also said that he would do things one could not do in Washington.
Jindal, the Oxford-educated son of Indian immigrants, is famous for his policy credentials.
The forgotten fossil of 410-million-years-old fish has provided a deeper insight into the origin of what may be called as “world’s first known teeth.”
A tiny tooth plate from the fossil fish Romundina stellina was found in a box, which had been in storage for more than 40 years.
Palaeontologists from Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Netherlands and the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, studied the fossil using high energy X-rays at the Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, revealing the structure and development of teeth and bones.
An area, which is nearby the chapel where Prince George was christened, in St. James’s Palace in London, will soon be up for rent.
Royal finance officials revealed that a complete overhaul was underway at Apartment 29a, which is located on the corner of the palace where it borders Marlborough Road and Cleveland Row, People Magazine reported.
The palace is looking at all the opportunities to continue renting properties on various royal estates in order to maximize income, so there’s a possibility that another apartment might be freed up.
It is being said that Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans are the one behind Tom Holland’s selection as Marvel’s Spider-man, who will make his debut in the movie ‘Captain America: Civil War.’
Tabloid media claims that producer Amy Pascal and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige first had the 50-year-old ‘Iron Man’ star come in to read with the candidates that included stars like Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield, Judah Lewis, Matthew Lintz, Charlie Plummer and Charlie Rowe up for the wall-crawler role, reported Fox news.
With Thursday marking the 40th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency by former prime minister Indira Gandhi, her personal secretary Rajinder Kumar Dhawan said that while some refer to the period as a ‘black day’, the declaration was nessesary to save India from forces of anarchy.
When Michelle Obama met Meryl Streep, they had more than just a formal conversation as the ladies discussed everything from their upbringings to mentoring their own daughters and the challenges women still face today.
Tabloid media revealed that the 51-year-old first lady and the 66-year-old Hollywood actress both have a lot of respect for their mothers, as they consider their moms as their mentors, reported the Marie Claire.
Experts have warned that existing efforts against AIDS and HIV aren’t enough and if the countries, which are most affected, do not amp up their efforts to curb the spread of AIDS, the epidemic may rebound in just five years time.
Report from the UNAIDS and Lancet Commission showed that the rate of new HIV infections was not falling fast enough even though unprecedented progress has been made to increase access to HIV treatment globally.
With a career that spans to almost 60 years, Judi Dench, who likes doing “something different” every time, has recently said that she would love to play an animal that turns into something.
While having a word with Prince Edward in St James’s Palace, the 80-year-old actress, who plays a long-legged bird in her latest flick, confessed that she doesn’t think it is easy to watch oneself act, reported the Guardian.
Deputy Leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party in the Rajya Sabha and former union minister Anand Sharma on Thursday said that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s statement that “No minister accused of impropriety will resign as we are NDA and not UPA” was an insult to democracy and deserved the strongest condemnation.
“This stand has unmasked the true face of the BJP, the hypocrisy of its leadership and the double standards,” he said.
Director Rahul Rawail, who is known for films such as ‘Love Story’, ‘Jeevan Ek Sanghursh’ and ‘Anjaam’ took to Twitter to call Bollywood actor Imran Khan, ‘mentally challenged’.
The rift started when, the ‘Jaane Tu.. Ya Jaane Na’ star stated in a recent interview “Is Rahul Rawail still around”?, on being asked about director’s involvement in creating misunderstandings between him and actor Ranbir Kapoor.