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Daily Bulletin: 58 die after drinking spurious liquor in Assam; CoA to consult Centre over Pakistan match; day's top stories
Fp Staff • 6 years agoToday's top stories: 58 people, most working at a tea estate, have died after consuming spurious liquor; the Committee of Administrators has decided to consult the Centre over the Indian team's match with Pakistan at the World Cup; questions over PM Modi's whereabouts during the Pulwama attack divide Congress and BJP, and more.
Parliament updates: Rajya Sabha scraps no-detention policy, passes amendments to RTE, NCTE bills; house adjourned till tomorrow
Fp Staff • 6 years agoParliament LIVE updates: TMC MP Derek O'Brien hit out at BJP's defence over the situation in Kashmir in Rajya Sabha. Derek said, "When finance minister makes guest appearance for Home minister, people know there's a strong message coming from the government."
Arun Jaitley says 3 lakh poor benefited from Ayushman Bharat; stresses need to raise rural sector’s contribution
• 6 years agoFinance Minister Arun Jaitley said that about 3 lakh poor people have benefited from Ayushman Bharat health scheme in the last one-and-a-half months.
Terrorists have to be dealt with a firm hand to protect human rights of citizens, says Arun Jaitley
• 7 years agoTerrorists have to be dealt with firmly to protect human rights of ordinary citizens, Union minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday.
Budget Session 2018: President Ram Nath Kovind stresses on farmer, minority welfare in address to Parliament
Fp Staff • 7 years agoDelivering his maiden address to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament, Kovind said that the Modi government will do everything to empower the minorities
Gujarat polls: BJP has always been a pro-Hindutva party, others trying to clone 'original', says Arun Jaitley
Fp Staff • 7 years agoJaitley said that the BJP has always been seen as a pro-Hindutva party, and suggested that now other parties have been trying to replicate their political stance
'Amartya Sen rushed in on demonetisation': Jagdish Bhagwati says he wasn't foolish enough to do so
Nikhila Natrajan • 7 years agoCelebrated right-wing professor Jagdish M Bhagwati fired a fresh salvo against Nobel laureate and bête noire Amartya Sen.
Arun Jaitley slams P Chidambaram, says 'azaadi or autonomy for Jammu and Kashmir' is against national interest
• 7 years agoAttributing the Kashmir problem to the flawed policy of the Congress, Jaitley said that its position on "azadi" for Jammu and Kashmir was against national interest
Sushma Swaraj arrives in Dhaka for bilateral meet; Rohingya crisis, Teesta River deal likely to be discussed
• 7 years agoSushma Swaraj arrived in Dhaka on Sunday on a two-day visit to attend a joint consultative committee meeting to review bilateral ties
Swaraj, Jaitley raise H1B visa issue but US Labor Dept is tightening regulations anyway
Nikhila Natrajan • 7 years agoThe form with the maximum open source information on H1B workers - the Labor Condition Application is set to ask for much more details than it ever has in the years since the existence of the H1B visa.