Cash crunch: Rahul meets vendors in delhi
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday met a group of street vendors in the capital's Sarojini Nagar market to enquire how the demonetisation decision has affected their business. He reached the market around 8.45 pm and interacted with the vendors for nearly half an hour. During his visit some BJP supporters raised slogan pro Modi. During his stay, he also interacted with shopkeepers of the area while squatting on the footpath. The Congress vice president has dubbed the move to demonetise Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 currency notes as a knee jerk reaction of the Government.
He has said while big players involved in black money have been allowed to go scot free, the common man is being harassed. The Congress has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi inside and outside Parliament over the poor implementation of the decision.
‘10% foreign students in israel from india’
New Delhi: The academic cooperation between India and Israel has grown considerably with 10 per cent of all foreign students in Israel being from India, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said here on Thursday.
"In past 3 years academic cooperation between Israel and India has grown a lot. 10 per cent of all foreign students in Israel are Indians and 40 joint research projects were supported by the two Governments. Most Israel college and universities teach Indian studies and one can also learn to speak Marathi," Rivlin said while addressing the 'Israel-India Academic Summit' here.
apex court to hear plea of haryana on syl issue
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on November 21 the plea of Haryana alleging that Punjab was violating its earlier interim order that the status quo on land meant for Sutlej-Yamuna link (SYl) canal be maintained.
900 permanent teaching posts lying vacant in du
New Delhi: Over 900 permanent teaching posts are lying vacant in University of Delhi, one of the most sought after varsities in the country, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. However, the University has hired ad-hoc and guest faculties in order to ensure that studies of the students are not affected, Minister of State for Human Resource Development Mahendra Nath Pandey said in written reply. "It has been reported that 911 permanent teaching posts were vacant in the University of Delhi as on October 1, 2016," he said.
Jaishankar expected to meet trump’s team
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar is in Washington for periodic Foreign Office consultations between India and United States of America. However, the FS is also expected to meet important members of President-elect Donald Trump's core team and work out a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trump.
india spells out stand
to china after visa denial
New Delhi: Following the news of China denying visa to one Arunachal Pradesh resident, India has made clear to Beijing its position on differential treatment of Indian passport holders and asked the Chinese side to address this issue in the spirit of reciprocity and smooth development of bilateral relations.
‘india made no additional commitments with japan’
New Delhi: Ministry of External Affairs has asserted that the termination clause in the Nuclear Cooperation Agreement (NCA) with Japan was nothing new and that New Delhi had made no additional commitments to clinch the deal other than what it had committed itself to while declaring a unilateral moratorium on testing nuclear weapons in 2008. MEA said that all clauses in the NCA were binding on the two parties.
demonetisation: sena backs opp, hm unhappy
New Delhi: A day after NDA ally Shiv Sena joined hands with the Opposition to protest demonetisation, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday spoke to its chief Uddhav Thackeray and is believed to have conveyed the BJP's unhappiness over the move. During the 10-minute telephonic conversation, Singh is understood to have told Thackeray that Shiv Sena joining hands with the Opposition, despite being part of the Modi Government, was sending a confusing signal and such an action was avoidable.
The Shiv Sena had on Wednesday taken part in a march to Rashtrapati Bhavan led by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and participated by Aam Aadmi Party and National Conference.
aligarh leads swachchh survey in 500 cities
New Delhi: Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh leads the 500 cities, which are going to assessed in Swachchh Survey 2017, in undertaking cleanliness awareness campaign, followed by Vasai-Virar in Maharashtra and Hyderabad. Other cities in the top 10 include Gurugram (Haryana), Chandigarh, Madurai (Tamil Nadu), Vadodara and Rajkot (Gujarat), Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) and Mysuru (Karnataka). During the evaluation of IEC (Information, Education and Communication) activities by the Urban Development Ministry, Aligarh has scored the maximum marks, an official release said.