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Customs, Central Excise and Income Tax officers don black badges for bette
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.8 (ANI): Officers belonging to all cadres (except direct group 'A') of Central Excise, Customs, Service Tax and Income Tax bore black badges today throughout the country demanding better pay scales and career prospects, including Superintendents, Income Tax O
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Giriraj's Singh's 'mass sterilisation' statement aimed
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Dec. 5 (ANI): Reprimanding Union Minister Giriraj Singh for demanding mass sterilisation in the country, the Janata Dal (United) party has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to prevent his Cabinet members from making such statements which could rupture the social fabri
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National-level shooter alleges rape: Mamata Sharma questions girls' s
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 4 (ANI): A day after a national-level shooter alleged rape by her coach, former National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Mamata Sharma on Sunday questioned the safety of girls while demanding stringent action against the accused.
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Oppn demands PM's apology, ready for debate in LS if comes with votin
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 2 (ANI): The meeting of various opposition parties on the Parliament premises on Friday concluded, with opposition leaders demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's apology in the Rajya Sabha.
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BJP must learn nationalism lessons: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 30 (ANI): The Congress, which today staged a walk out of the Parliament demanding obituary reference to those killed in the Nagrota attack, said the BJP-led NDA government must learn lessons on nationalism.
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Bangladeshi Hindus seek Trump's intervention to save non-Muslims in B
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], Nov. 28 (ANI): In the wake of atrocities laid on their community, few Hindu Bangladesh nationals rallied yesterday in front of Trump Tower here demanding the intervention of President elect Donald J. Trump to save the non-Muslims in their country.
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Demonetisation protests: Oppn displays full might, forms giant human chain
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 23 (ANI): The Opposition parties on Wednesday put up a united front against the Centre over demonetisation, as they formed a giant human chain outside the Parliament chanting slogans and carrying placards, fervently demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's presen
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Speaker will decide under what rule demonetisation discussion can take pla
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 22 (ANI): Responding to the opposition in the Rajya Sabha demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's presence in Parliament to listen to their views on demonetisation, Union Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said that the Speaker of the Lok Sabha or t
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PM Modi attempting to build his image courtesy demonetisation: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 18 (ANI): Demanding an apology from the government for imposing unnecessary burden on the common man with the demonetisation move, the Congress Party on Friday alleged that this decision was a desperate attempt on part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to build his imag
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Congress backs Azad, says "nothing wrong" in his comments
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 18 (ANI): With the government demanding an apology from Ghulam Nabi Azad over his remarks in the Rajya Sabha yesterday on demonetisation, the Congress Party on Friday came out in defence of its Leader of Opposition and said th
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BJP, not Congress should apologise for pushing country to edge: Azad
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 18 (ANI): While the Union Ministers and Bharatiya Janata Party MPs are demanding his apology for comparing the impact of the ban of notes with terrorist attacks, Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday said there is no question of apologising
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Assam farmers don't have money to buy seeds or employ labour after de
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam), Nov. 16 (ANI): Demonetisation of high denomination currency notes has badly hit agricultural activities across Assam, as cash-starved farmers are finding it hard to pay agricultural labourers, demanding wages in advance, that too in Rs 100 denomination.
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