India probing isis link in youth held in syria
New Delhi: India on Thursday said it was verifying information on four Indian youth who were held in Syria while going to join the ISIS. “We are verfiying the inputs shared by Syria on four Indian youth. We have no such information that they were going to join the ISIS,” Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Vikas Swarup told reporters here.
‘Govt to spend Rs5k-cr more for mgnrega’
New Delhi: Union Rural Development Minister Birender Singh on Thursday expressed hope that the Government will sanction an additional fund of Rs5,000 crore for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee (MGNREGA) scheme. Singh said release of additional funds was a committment made during the Budget for 2015-16, and added that also there was a demand from some of the states for release of funds. He said he would meet Finance minister Arun Jaitley and press for his ministry’s demands.
manoj sinha releases book on railways
New Delhi: Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha on Thursday released a book titled Objective Railway Engineering - Track, Works & Others in the national Capital. Member Engineering Railway Board VK Gupta, Member Staff Railway Board Pradeep Kumar and author of the book MM Agarwal were also present on the occasion. Agarwal is a well known Civil Engineer who served Indian Railways for 33 years. This book is like a ‘Bible’ on Railway Engineering technology and is very well patronised by all Railway Engineers / professionals in their day-to-day work as well as a referral book for all problems on all aspects of Railway Engineering.
blasts: sc asks nazir to move trial court
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Abdul Nazir Maudany, leader of Kerala-based People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to move the trial court with his plea seeking clubbing of nine cases registered against him and others in the 2008 Bengaluru serial bomb blasts.
Amity starts event on cloud system, big data
New Delhi: Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology (ASET) on Thursday started two-day Confluence-2016: Global Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit themed on “Cloud System and Big Data Engineering” at Amity Campus.