DELHI CONFIDENTIAL NEWS - Page 88

Delhi Confidential: Delhi Date

July 7, 2018 04:32 IST

Nitish will be in Delhi to attend the JD(U) national executive meeting on Sunday, but there could also be a courtesy meeting with Paswan, sources in LJP said.

Delhi Confidential: Acting Fast

July 6, 2018 10:38 IST

Days after Maneka Gandhi announced that she would be introducing death penalty, the Union government brought an ordinance amending the IPC to award death penalty for rape of girls under 12 years.

Delhi Confidential: Caught Out By Hindi!

July 5, 2018 06:29 IST

There were a couple of lighter moments in Union minister Rajnath Singh’s press briefing on the Union Cabinet’s “historic” decision on the minimum support price (MSP) increase.

Delhi Confidential: Showing SolidaritySubscriber Only

July 4, 2018 00:53 IST

Afghan diplomats in Delhi joined the demonstration, the idea being to display solidarity with the Sikh community

Delhi Confidential: Lecture timeSubscriber Only

July 3, 2018 04:24 IST

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, will be hosting Ashwani Lohani to hear his ideas on transforming Indian Railways and leadership skills.

Delhi Confidential: Waiting for signalsSubscriber Only

July 2, 2018 04:27 IST

When JD(U)’s national executive — its highest decision making body — meets in Delhi on July 8, the BJP’s top leadership will be assessing messages coming out of the meeting.

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Delhi Confidential: Good gestureSubscriber Only

June 30, 2018 03:53 IST

The Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritwa Abhiyan award ceremony on Friday evening stood out for more reasons than one. There was, to begin with, the provision for sign language translation.

Delhi Confidential: Pilgrim’s Progress

June 29, 2018 04:51 IST

The Congress has been saying that its president Rahul Gandhi is yet to get permission from the MEA for undertaking the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra. But the MEA has revealed that it has not received a formal request from Rahul so far.

Delhi confidential: Blog BoostSubscriber Only

June 28, 2018 04:48 IST

While the BJP and Congress sparred with each other over the Emergency in the last couple of days, it may have yielded a fringe benefit to one of the contestants in the DDCA elections.

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Delhi Confidential: Looking back

June 27, 2018 03:36 IST

Kurien will not be retiring from politics, but plans to find time to write a memoir about his long parliamentary career, during which he was twice the chief whip of the Congress in Lok Sabha.

When Health Secretary Preeti Sudan tried to give a clarification, Dharmendra Pradhan said he would discuss things with her later, and not at a public function.

Delhi Confidential: Not Very Happy

June 26, 2018 04:02 IST

After a woman NSUI worker from Chhattisgarh levelled sexual harassment charge against the student organisation’s national president, Fairoz Khan, the Congress on Monday set up a three-member committee to probe the matter.

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Delhi Confidential: Setting The Trend

June 25, 2018 03:26 IST

A reported statement by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal that the Kerala government is not cooperating with railway development has also come in handy for the Congress to target both the state and central governments.

Delhi Confidential: Rare protest

June 23, 2018 05:57 IST

Vijayan accused the Centre of sanctioning coach factories in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh and argued that its decisions were not in line with the federal system.

Delhi Confidential: Time For Travel

June 22, 2018 03:38 IST

While the expectation was that Congress president Rahul Gandhi would go abroad to celebrate his birthday, as he has done on many occasions in the past, he did not.

Delhi Confidential: Return List

June 21, 2018 03:47 IST

Rail Bhawan officials were slightly flummoxed recently when they noticed that money earned for the service, as reflected in the books, was not really as huge as they should have been.

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Delhi confidential: Varsity Woes

June 20, 2018 00:52 IST

HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar is miffed with Delhi University Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Tyagi. Despite the Delhi High Court order of 2016 and the ministry’s repeated reminders thereafter, Tyagi has little to show on the teacher recruitment front. DU continues to reel under an acute teacher shortage with departments being run by ad hoc faculty for years. […]

Delhi Confidential: Written Gratitude

June 19, 2018 00:52 IST

Having returned home after treatment at AIIMS, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has personally written to the resident doctors of the premier institution and expressed his gratitude for the manner in which they looked after him.

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Delhi Confidential: Meet to set agenda

June 18, 2018 07:30 IST

While BJP president Amit Shah has launched the ‘sampark se samarthan’ programme to meet prominent people to talk about the Narendra Modi government’s programmes, party general secretary Ram Madhav organised a strategic session for social media influencers.

Delhi confidential: In For Praise

June 16, 2018 03:27 IST

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu left his doctors on tenterhooks by undertaking a bumpy road journey in the Northeast on Friday, barely five days after undergoing a cataract operation and lens implantation.

Delhi confidential: Enthused By EnvoysSubscriber Only

June 15, 2018 04:52 IST

Among them were the high commissioners of Britain, South Africa and Bangladesh and the ambassadors of Russia, Canada, Iran and Iraq.

Delhi confidential: Memoir Time

June 14, 2018 05:14 IST

Mukherjee has already penned his pre-Rashtrapati Bhavan political journey in some detail. But the curiosity about the contents of his diary remains high, especially after Mukherjee’s headline-making visit to the RSS headquarters in Nagpur recently.

Delhi confidential: Embracing RussiaSubscriber Only

June 13, 2018 05:20 IST

Usually, ministers of state or officials at the rank of secretary attend such events. But after the Sochi summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, it seems that South Block is giving signals to the West about New Delhi’s proximity to Moscow.