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February 12 The freshly appointed General Secretary of Indian National congress, Priyanka Gandhi has taken twitter by storm as she garnered a massive response, and attracted over one lakh sixty thousands followers on the social media platform within 10 hours. This happened a few hours after her massive road show in Lucknow attended by tens of thousands of people. Shashi Tharoor, prominent Congressman, compared her first-day popularity on the twitter to that of Indian Film star, Rajinikanth, and called her "The new superstar on social media". Rajinikanth, pertinently was the only person who in his his first 24 hours on Twitter got 2 lakh followers. Significantly, she was yet to post her first tweet when the number of her followers crossed the one-lakh sixty thousand mark. ...

February 11 The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said cow has been an important part of India’s tradition and culture and his government has taken several steps to improve the health of cattle. Speaking at an event here, Modi said cow has been a vital element of the rural economy. “We cannot repay the debt of cow’s (gau mata) milk. Cow is an important element of India’s tradition and culture,” Modi said. He stressed his government has taken several steps to improve the health of cattle and started the Rashtriya Gokul Mission. In the Union Budget, Modi said, his government has also taken a decision to establish ‘Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog’ with an allocation of Rs 500 crore. PTI

February 11 The Indian Defence Minister on Monday said that Indian Army will airlift passengers stranded due to the blockade of Highway connecting Jammu with Srinagar. Nirmala Sitharman tweeted, "Army to help air-lift stranded students & others from Jammu to Srinagar & viceversa. Inclement weather affected their movement. Acknowledge the phone call of @MehboobaMufti on this matter. Also just spoke with DC Jammu."   Fresh Snowfall and landslides at various places triggered the closure of Highway connecting Srinagar with Jammu on February 06, the highway has been closed since. Over 3,000 vehicles are stranded along the nearly 300-kilometre long road for the last six days. Airfare from and to the valley has touched sky heights after the closure of the highwa...

February 11 Expressing support for Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu’s daylong fast, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stolen from the people of the state and given the money to industrialist Anil Ambani. The TDP president is on a fast here demanding that the Centre fulfil all promises made during Andhra Pradesh’s bifurcation in 2014 and alleging that the prime minister was not following ‘raj dharma’ by denying the state special status. “The prime minister has stolen from the people from Andhra Pradesh and he has given that money to Anil Ambani. That is the fact of the matter,” Gandhi said at the venue of the hunger strike in Andhra Bhavan. The government and Ambani have rejected Gandhi’s allegations of corruption ...

February 10 A 25-year-old Indian Engineering Services (IES) officer allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his room in southwest Delhi’s Munirka area, police said. The deceased has been identified as Pranav Tiwari, a native of Rewa district in Madhya Pradesh, they added. Tiwari was living with his three batchmates — Dheeraj Pandey, Devender Patel and Vivek — in Munirka, police said. On Saturday evening, Pandey and Patel had gone to Saket Mall and Vivek had left for his native place. Pranav was alone at the flat, a senior police officer said. When Pandey and Patel returned at around 9 pm, they found the door locked from inside. They arranged a ladder and with the help of neighbourers climbed up the backside balcony and saw Tiwari hanging from the ceiling, the offic...

February 09 The Indian Army is planning to induct 6000 sniper rifles and other modernized equipments along the Line of Control which divides Jammu Kashmir between India and Pakistan. A report published on Daily Excelsior quoting sources said that Army would be inducting about 6000 sniper rifles along LoC in twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri in Jammu region and Baramulla and Kupwara in Kashmir during next few months. “Army has a target of purchasing around 6000 sniper rifles for the soldiers deployed all along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. The induction process has begun with arrival of some of the weapons from global suppliers. As soon as all weapons are received, they will be inducted on the LoC to strengthen capability of the troops during anti-infiltration operations,...

February 08 The BJP’s youth wing has demanded land to construct a temple on the AMU campus, saying Hindu students were facing problems in performing prayers. In a letter to AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor, Mukesh Singh Lodhi, the district president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), said if the university doesn’t fulfil their demand within 15 days, they would install an idol and begin constructing the temple at a suitable site. Leaders of AMU Students’ Union said the BJP youth wing leader’s threat was an attempt to disturb peace in the city and polarize voters in the run-up to the general elections. ALSO READ: Jinnah portrait- Row at Aligarh Muslim University, Old Story, New Shades Former AMUSU president Faizul Hasan told PTI, “This is not a question of religious ...

February 06 The former Chief Justice Markandey Katju in an address has said that Lord Ram is not a God. Katju also objected to the cow being called as ‘mother’. Addressing a program in Dehradun, Markandey Katju said that Ram was not a God but an ordinary man. “Those who call the cow as mother, have heads filled of dung," Katju said while expressing objections to the cow as mother, adding that cow is also an animal like a horse and a dog. Prior to his appointment as Chairman of PCI Markandey Katju has served as a Judge at the Supreme Court of India.www.parkviewortho.com/wp-content/languages/new/viagra.html Before being elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court, he had earlier served as the Chief Justice of Delhi and Madras High Court and as acting Chief Justice of Allahabad ...

February 04 Angry over his younger brother securing a government job on compassionate grounds, a 30-year-old man allegedly set two rooms of their house on fire, killing four members of the family and injuring four others in West Bengal’s Malda district, police said Monday. The incident occurred at Madantola village under Manikchak police station, they said. Accused Makhan Mondal allegedly poured petrol in two rooms of the tiled-roofed hut on Sunday night when the family members were asleep. Makhan’s younger brother Gobinda, 28, elder brother Bikash, 32, and Goninda’s two daughters – aged 3 and one-and-a-half years – were charred to death, police said. The two children died on the spot while Bikash and Gobinda succumbed to injuries in hospital, they added. Bikash’s wife, son and daugh...

February 04 Thirty-three people were injured after a private bus fell into a gorge at Gopalpur in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district on Monday, a district official said. The condition of eleven of them is critical. Ten of them have been referred to the Tanda Medical College and one to a hospital in the district’s Palampur sub-division, he added. The others injured are being treated at a hospital in Gopalpur, he added. The accident took place after the bus — registration number HP28B1989 — of the Jawahar Bus Service fell into the gorge near Gopalpur Monday morning, he added. (PTI)