With only weeks to go before the Lok Sabha election, the much-awaited employment data for the post-demonetization period – July 2017 to June 2018, which had been withheld by the Modi government, has become public giving a bleak job scenario prevailing in India today.
Read More
The report would have revealed the job losses in the country following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 banknotes, in November 2016.
Read More
The Union government asked the Supreme Court to permit return of excess land around disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid plot to its original owners. The Centre has urged that the government should consider releasing around 67-odd acres of land to its original owners.
Read More
The Supreme Court said it would hear Zakia Jafri’s plea against “clean chit” by the special investigation team to the-then Gujarat chief minister, Narendra Modi, in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots, after four weeks.
Read More
Justice AK Patnaik, who was supervising the Central Vigilance Commission inquiry into alleged corruption charges against Verma, has come out and said there was no evidence of corruption against the Central Bureau of Investigation director.
Read More
Alok Verma, the Central Bureau of Investigation chief, has been removed from his post, on Thursday night. The decision was taken in the second high-level panel meeting headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by a majority or 2:1.
Read More
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, while addressing a meeting of his cabinet took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “building a library” in Afghanistan, while discussing the contribution of the US in the war-ravaged country.
Read More
The ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution said the central government is unaware of starvation deaths taking place in India despite several reports of such deaths occurring in the country.
Read More
The government and the Reserve Bank is planning to ask non-resident Indians to raise money to support the falling rupee and strengthen the economy, according to media reports quoting a government official.
Read More