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Under the Chief Minister Dalit Empowerment Programme, the Telanaga government has announced that it shall provide financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh to the eligible Dalit beneficiaries. The scheme, which is a rare initiative, is supposed to cover 100 families, each from all the 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana, with a budget of Rs. 1,200. On Sunday, the Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao chaired an all party meeting at Pragati Bhavan in order to finalise guidelines for the 'Chief Minister Dalit Empowerment Programme' with Daliy representatives for a marathon 11 hours. "CM Dalit Empowerment Programme would further change the lives of Dalits for better," said the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government on Sunday. It is said that the amount will be transferred directly ...

The police in Uttar Pradesh''s Bulandshahr district have lodged an FIR against two senior officials of Twitter India over the social media platform putting up a distorted map of India. The FIR was lodged at the Khurja Nagar police station on Monday evening on the basis of a complaint by an office-bearer of right wing Bajrang Dal. The map, which showed the Union Territories of Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir outside India, was noticed on Monday, leading to an uproar by netizens. Twitter had removed that map on Monday evening. "The world map does not show Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir as parts of India. This is not a coincidence. This act has hurt the sentiments of Indians, including me," Bajrang Dal''s western UP convenor Praveen Bhati said in the complaint. The FIR names Twitter India...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said that it has a big mission to form the next Government in Jammu Kashmir and the party is working on the same lines. BJP held its Working Committee Meeting here and passed a political resolution, requesting the Government of India for early completion of the delimitation process and holding assembly elections in the UT as soon as possible. The development comes days after the All Party Meeting (APM) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on June 24. Talking to reporters after the meeting at the party headquarters here, Ravinder Raina said the meeting unanimously passed a political resolution requesting the delimitation commission to complete the assigned task early to pave the way for the holding of assembly elections and a popul...

Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) president, Bibi Jagir Kaur, while holding a press conference in Patiala spoke on alleged conversion of a Sikh girl into Islam in Kashmir through marriage. She said that India is a democracy and no one can force a child to adhere to doctrines of a particular religion.buy lasix generic rxbuywithoutprescriptionrxonline.com/lasix.html over the counter “As Sikhs, it is the family’s duty to educate and encourage their children to follow the Sikh way of life. We, as the SGPC, can only preach about the religion but no one can force a religion on someone.” She also added that the family and relatives of the girl who got married into a Muslim family had approached the SGPC and also tried to convince the girl to convert back to the Sikh religio...

Four members of a cloth merchant family were shot at in their house in Ghaziabad’s Loni area, in which three people died while the condition of one remains critical. The incident took place in main bazar located in Loni area. Top officials of the district have launched an investigation into the matter. No arrests have been made so far. Police said, unidentified miscreants shot and killed 70-year-old Raisuddin, his 30-year-old son Azhar and 28-year-old son Imran, late at night on Sunday in the house. Raisuddin’s 65-year-old wife Fatima was also shot at and her condition is said to be critical. However, a pregnant woman member of the family was saved in the incident. There were 5 members in the house when the incident took place. A forensic team and dog squad have also been called ...