India, All india, 29th Apr 2017, News & Stories from India

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The MGNREGA promises 100 days of employment every year to each rural household. (Representational image)

56 per cent of NREGA jobs for women

In 2016-17, largest number of women got employment since 2006.

29 Apr 2017 6:04 AM

The absorbable stents are fully dissolving artery stents that are absorbed by the body over roughly three years.

India allows controversial stents

Drug regulator asks for clinic trials of stents red-flagged by US, EU, Australia.

29 Apr 2017 5:59 AM

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (Photo: PTI)

ED targets top Trinamul Congress leaders

All the accused will soon be summoned by the ED for questioning for suspected money-laundering.

29 Apr 2017 3:22 AM

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades with MoS for health and family welfare Anupriya Patel at Rajghat in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

India, Cyprus vow to act against terror; ink four pacts

The de-facto partition of Cyprus in the mid-1970s followed hostility between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

29 Apr 2017 3:14 AM

Youth throw stones on security personnel during a protest against the police action on protesters in Kupwara, in Srinagar. (Photo: PTI)

Can social media ban stop stone-pelting mayhem?

Stone-pelting goes beyond social networking and alleged funding from across the border.

29 Apr 2017 2:54 AM

Army personnel pay tribute to Capt. Ayush Yadav and two other soldiers who laid down their lives while fighting militants in Kupwara.

Indian Army pays homage to Kupwara’s slain heroes

Soon after the attack, protests by locals were held in nearby villages of Panzgam and Kralapora.

29 Apr 2017 2:46 AM

R.R. Bhatnagar (R) takes over the charge as the new Director General of CRPF in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

RR Bhatnagar takes charge as new DG of CRPF

Bhatnagar will have a tenure of little less than three-years as he is scheduled to retire in December, 2019.

29 Apr 2017 2:29 AM

People and children at a candle light vigil in memory of the CRPF personnel, who were killed in the Sukma Naxal attack in Chattisgarh, in Patna. (Photo: PTI)

CRPF chose to take Naxals head on despite casualties

The Maoists looted five wireless sets and weapons after killing 25 troopers in the ambush.

29 Apr 2017 2:17 AM

Tamil Nadu tells Supreme Court: No drought suicides

It said the 30 suicides reported by district collectors were due to a variety of causes, but not drought.

29 Apr 2017 2:03 AM

The Niti Aayog is grappling with the issue of trying to weave in the LTIPP into the vision document.

Niti seeks Rs 1.7 lakh crore for military buys by 2020

India, with the world’s third largest armed forces, is already in the middle of a major defence modernisation programme.

29 Apr 2017 1:46 AM

Govt to Supreme Court: Can’t talk to Kashmiri separatists

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said recently the PM and the Chief Minister of the state held a meeting to discuss the situation.

29 Apr 2017 1:32 AM

Supreme Court gives 7 years in jail to eve-teaser

The apex court wondered why women in this country cannot be allowed to live in peace, and with dignity and freedom.

29 Apr 2017 1:20 AM

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (Photo: PTI)

UP cops, bureaucrats to follow Yogi Standard Time

The chief minister is likely to make surprise checks through landline phones to confirm the presence of officials in their offices.

29 Apr 2017 1:14 AM

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