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Home Jharkhand's BJP government promotes 'paid news', offers ₹15000 per report besides pension to journalists
The BJP government in Jharkhand has offered a windfall to journalists working in the state. All they need to do is to write 'positive' reports about the government and rake in as much as Rs 15,000 per report for their effort.While print and video reports will be vetted by the government, the responsibility of getting them published or aired...
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Home LIVE news updates: UP govt is repeating what it did in Unnao rape case, says Priyanka Gandhi
P Chidambaram produced before Delhi court on expiry of his 14-day judicial custody in INX Media caseTwo magnitude 6.1 earthquakes struck in Indonesia in the last one hourEuropean-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC): Two magnitude 6.1 earthquakes struck in Indonesia in the last one hour pic.twitter.com/2KIqh5LKWH— ANI (@ANI) September 19, 2019...
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Home Uttar Pradesh police evict world's 'longest protester' after 23 years
Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday took five minutes to bring curtains down on a 23 year old dharna by a school teacher. Master Vijay Singh (57) had been on dharna at the Muzaffarnagar collectorate since he was 34 years old in 1996. But police physically lifted him and threw him out of the collectorate.The one-man crusader, who figures in various record books including the...
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Home Print media burdened with higher input cost; government chants "Make in India" mantra
Presenting her maiden budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced 10 per cent customs duty on newsprint and 5 per cent custom duty on imported books in July this year.The customs duty slapped by the government, expectedly lowered the profitability and increased financial burden on the newspaper industry.But the government holds that the decision to...
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Home 'NASA analysing images of Chandrayaan-2's landing site'
NASA is analysing, validating and reviewing the images clicked by its lunar orbiter of the area on the Moon where India's Chandrayaan-2 mission made an unsuccessful attempt to soft land its Vikram module, according to a media report that quoted a project scientist of the US space agency.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has snapped a series of images during its flyby on...
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Home Suicide bomb in southern Afghanistan, kills at least 20
A powerful early morning suicide truck bomb devastated a hospital in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing as many as 20 people and wounding more than 90 others, an official said.The Taliban, who claimed responsibility for the bombing, have carried out nearly daily attacks since peace talks with the United States collapsed earlier this month.Thursday's massive explosion destroyed part...
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Home Sitharaman, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw in Twitter spat over e-cigarette ban
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday defended her decision to ban e-cigarettes after Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw questioned her authority to issue the ban.In a tweet, Shaw wondered why the decision on e-cigarette ban came from her and not Health Minister Harsh Vardhan."E-cigarettes banned, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman - Shd this not come from...
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Home 'Godse ke daur me Gandhi ke saath hun', says Class XI student from Varanasi
This viral video will again resonate today.Kaun Kehta Hai Ki Mai Aandhi ke saath Hun,Godse ke daur me Mai Gandhi ke saath Hun ! https://t.co/08NdKwV87u— uttam sengupta (@chatukhor) September 19, 2019 function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} The video has been downloaded and shared over a million times on social media. And the schoolboy has...
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Home IIM-A ignores quota for PhD course, professor writes open letter to director to follow constitutional values
In its advertisement, inviting applications for its doctoral programme the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad has mentioned no provision for reservation of seats for applicants from socially disadvantaged sections. It has drawn flak for blatantly violating a central law.The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in...
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Home No maternity leave for state govt employees in case of third child, rules Uttarakhand High Court
Uttarakhand High Court has passed a judgement which makes state government employees not eligible for maternity leave for their third child.Passing a unique judgement on Tuesday, The double bench of Chief Justices Ramesh Ranganathan and Alok Kumar Verma set aside an earlier order passed in July 2018 by the High Court's single bench.In its order on...
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