The telecom wing of the Indian Railway, RailTel, has signed an agreement with the subsidiary of Google India to provide Wi-Fi facilities at 400 stations across the country, the government said today. In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, minister of state for Railways Manoj Sinha said that RailTel Corporation of India Ltd (RCIL), a PSU under Railway Ministry, signed […]
» Read moreAfter an aerial survey of the flood-hit areas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced an immediate release of Rs.1,000 crore for relief and rehabilitation works in Tamil Nadu. “A sum of Rs. 1,000 crore will be released immediately by the Government of India to carry out relief works. This will be in addition to Rs.940 crore which was released […]
» Read moreJustice Tirath Singh Thakur was on Thursday sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at an elegant function in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The senior-most judge of the apex court, 63-year old Justice Thakur took over from incumbent Justice H L Dattu who retired on Wednesday. As a Supreme Court judge, he headed the bench which had […]
» Read moreHyderabad: Police on Monday registered a rape case and launched a probe in to delivery of a baby by a 15-year-old class IX student of a government school at Madhapur on Saturday afternoon. Both the young mother and the baby girl are said to be safe. The student is the daughter of a visually-challenged widower, who runs a grocery store […]
» Read morePresident Pranab Mukherjee today inaugurated Amul’s state-of-the-art feed manufacturing plant in Kapadwanj in Gujarat’s Kheda district. Official sources said President Mukherjee will give away the APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Award to children at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad on Tuesday besides interacting with the faculty and students. Visiting Gujarat for the first the first time after assuming office […]
» Read moreCongress president Sonia Gandhi has gone to the US for a medical check-up in the middle of the Winter Session of Parliament, which began last week. “She has gone to the US for a regular, routine checkup. She will return after a week,” Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said in Delhi. Party sources said the 68-year-old leader’s checkup was due for […]
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