The 74-year-old military bicycle was restored, which was used by both British and Indian paratroopers during the WWII. The 10.5 kg bicycle which is valued at Rs 3.5 lakh is said to be the only piece (with original parts) that is available in the country today.
While, Susie V Shah (Mumbai), Pratima Kumari Das (Bihar), Sudha (Tamil Nadu) and Pratishtha Singh (Uttar Pradesh) were inducted in the National Executive of the party's women wing. Last week, Congress MLA from Rae Bareli Sadar Aditi Singh was named the general secretary of the Mahila Congress.
Addressing a gathering after jointly inaugurating the Nepal-Bharat Maitri Pashupati Dharamshala - a rest house for pilgrims - along with Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Modi said, "every Indian is happy to see that there is political stability in Nepal." The 400-bed rest house at the Pashupati Temple Area Complex has been built with Rs 14 crore of Indian assistance.
The Army on Friday floated a RFI (request for information) for 7.62x31 square mm caliber assault rifles, with an effective kill range of 300 metres to be produced by the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) as well as private sector companies, for which responses must be submitted by September 24.
The signing of the MoU comes two years after China agreed to construct a strategic railway link with Nepal through Tibet with an apparent aim of reducing the Himalayan nation's dependence on India. It also comes in the backdrop of recent Chinese linkages with Nepal as it took on building three highways to be completed by 2020.
As many as 19 people were on Friday airlifted by the Indian Air Force (IAF) from a flooded Arunachal Pradesh island, while over 200 others were rescued by disaster response teams from Assam's Dhemaji district as the Siang river, originating from China, continued to swell due to heavy rains.
In a tweet, Mamata said, "Rupee suffering from low fever. Petrol and diesel prices highest ever. Foreign Exchange Reserves have fallen by $21.84 billion between March end and August 3." Referring to the GST, she said the new indirect tax regime resulted in huge losses to West Bengal's revenue.
Slapping varied fines on some state governments and Union territory (UT) administrations, a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and S Abdul Nazeer said: "if they want the people to live in dirt, filth and garbage, what can be done then."
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Reeling under unprecedented flood for over a month now, Nagaland waits for just Rs 100 crore from Centre to repair its damaged network to carry relief work for affected people. Basic essential commodities are either being air dropped or shipped on smaller vehicles to as far as possible.
An expert panel set up by the aviation ministry to probe this incident released its report on Friday evening, stating that "the incident was survivable." Rahul Gandhi was flying from Delhi to Hubli, Karnataka, on April 26 when his plane had developed a technical snag.
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Director Secondary Education Department Nathmal Didel said the orders were not issued by the directorate and action would be taken against the District Education Officers (DEOs) in Bharatpur and Hanumangarh districts who released the orders on August 29 and 30 "arbitrarily". He said the orders were withdrawn and fresh orders issued in which the salary deduction clause was removed.
In a statement, Hardik said that though he has stopped taking food and water, he will continue his fight till he attains victory by walking on the path of Mahatma Gandhi. Several Gujarat Congress leaders, including Kanu Kalsaria, former state Congress president Arjun Modhwadia and MLA Vikram Madam, on Friday met Hardik and extended their support.
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PM Modi will arrive at the newly built second airport of the state at Jharsuguda in a special aircraft from New Delhi on the day and dedicate the airport to the nation on September 22. The Jharsuguda airport has been built over an area of 909.22 acres at a cost of Rs 175 crore.
Many local websites have been found to be announcing recruitment rallies by the Indian Army to select candidates for the force. Assam Police tweeted an advisory on such fake recruitment posts yesterday.
The BJP has claimed that Congress president Rahul Gandhi wanted Chinese ambassador to give him a ceremonial see-off as he left for the 'Kailash-Mansarovar yatra' on Friday, accusing him of holding brief for China everywhere like a "Chinese spokesperson".
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Census 2021 will for the first time collect data on other backwards castes. Nearly 25 lakh enumerators are trained and engaged for the gigantic exercise. Accurate collection of data will be ensured in Census 2021.
The Congress leader alleged that foreign investors were consistently losing confidence in government policies and the incoming "Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) since April, 2018 is on a downward spiral". The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) annual report, 2017, he said, testified that net exports have dipped since the Modi government took over.
India and Pakistan agreed to undertake mandated tours of each other's hydropower projects on the Indus, even as the Pakistani press reported only on the inspection of only India's projects. In fact, Pakistani sources told PTI India rejected Pakistan's objections on its hydropower projects on the Chenab.
Leader of the Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Vikhe Patil also accused the state government of backing those opposed to the rationalist movement. Pansare was shot at on February 16, 2015 here and succumbed to his injuries four days later.
Bahujan Samaj Party's social media influencer Devendra Jarariya recently shared a fake image on Twitter which claimed that ashes of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee are being sold on e-commerce website Amazon.
The hasty and ill-advised move was not 'patriotic' but created "economic anarchy" in the country as subsequent developments proved, it said in editorials in the party organs 'Saamana' and 'Dopahar Ka Saamana'.
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