Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said the government has decided to offer 40 pc reservation for girls at 100 Navodaya-type schools and five higher education institutes it plans to set up for minority community students.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu today directed senior officials to fix responsibility on "prima facie evidence by the end of day" into the derailment of the Utkal Express in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar.
Nitish Kumar on Saturday dared Sharad Yadav to 'break' the JD(U) saying that the rebel party leader was "free" to take his decision.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and rebel leader O Panneerselvam on Saturday expressed confidence that AIADMK merger will happen soon.
Nitish Kumar reminded Sharad Yadav that he was elected to the Rajya Sabha with the support and vote of the BJP. "But he is raising his voice against me and giving me sermons," he said.
Rahul Gandhi today met some bereaved families of children who died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College last week and expressed his sympathies.
Amit Shah also said that the Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh should be built either through consensus among the parties involved or through a court order.
Supporters of rival JD(U) factions headed by Nitish Kumar and Sharad Yadav clashed outside the residence of the Bihar chief minister here today, police said.
KC Tyagi said that Sharad Yadav has left the party "on his own" and is "no longer with us, emotionally or physically".
Chief Judicial Magistrate Gopal Tiwari issued non-bailable warrants against Kapil Aggarwal from Muzaffarnagar constituency and Umesh Malik from Budhana seat.
"It is Sharad Yadav who formed the JD-U, not Nitish Kumar," a JD(U) leader said.
“We have not come to power for 5-10 years, but at least 50 years. We should move forward with a conviction that in 40-50 years we have to bring major changes in the country through the medium of power,” Shah said.
Panneerselvam was speaking after leaders of the AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) faction led by him met here for informal discussions on the merger issue today.
Making the announcement, party leader KC Tyagi categorically denied that there was any split in the party following differences with senior leader Sharad Yadav.
Rahul Gandhi is visiting BRD hospital in Gorakhpur today. More than 70 infants have died in this state-run hospital since August 7 allegedly due to disruption of oxygen supply – a claim the state government has dismissed.
The marathon deliberations initiated on Friday for the merger of EPS-OPS camps failed to make any headway as the two factions could not resolve their differences over certain crucial issues.
The much expected merger of the two major factions in the AIADMK - one led by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami and the other by former Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam -- did not fructify on Friday.
Amit Shah is on a three-day visit to Madhya Pradesh.
Rajnath Singh asserted that by 2022, a solution would be found to the Kashmir problem as also other problems like terrorism, naxalism and North East insurgency.
Akhilesh said matters coming to the fore on the issue smack of corruption, somewhere causing a breakdown in the supply of oxygen in the ward
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