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India Today magazine has finally revealed the mysterious absence of Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi from Feb. 16 to March 31, debunking the rumours that he was in Latin America with his girlfriend. He was in fact, touring four Buddhist nations in Southeast Asia and the claims by his mother that the holiday was intended for soul-searching were true. Rahul ...

Government has approved India-based Neutrino Observatory Project with estimated cost of Rs. 1583.05 crore, informed minister Jitendra Singh to Rajya Sabha in a written reply. The Government has approved the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) Project, to be located in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu and financial sanction has been issued on January 6, this year, said MoS in the Prime ...

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley reached parliament with the iconic briefcase containing the budget papers at 10 am this morning and he will present his first full-year budget for the fiscal 2015-2016 at aound after 11.00 am, unless the opposition allows without too many interruptions. One of the notable absentees will be Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has taken leave ...

Union Health Minister J.P.Nadda has been repeatedly saying that there is no shortage of swine flu medicine and the people need to be alert but there is no need to panic, though the number of deaths are above the 800-mark amid allegations of low numbers reported. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Nadda said the central government is in ...

After the glorification of Nathuram Godse, the assassin of the Father of Nation, as a “patriot” by BJP lawmaker Sakshi Maharaj, the parliament today witnessed widespread protest from the opposition. While Congress sought to file a case against Maharaj, the grandson of Gandhi, Tushar Gandhi, reportedly commented, ” I do not think it’s a controversial statement. Sakshi Maharaj is at ...

While India takes on its should the cleanliness campaign “Swacha Bharath” on Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary, here are some anecdotes or incidents to recollect. In the mid-80s, When Gandhi’s statue was to be placed at India Gate when Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister, the British media found it amusing as to what kind of a message it would send ...

As the nation is shocked and outraged by Sunday’s gang-rape of a para-medic trainee in a private bus in the capital, the government has hurriedly announced several measures, but the outcome remains distant to safeguard terrified women in New Delhi to take any vehicles. Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has outlined the following measures in Parliament on the Gang Rape incident ...

Actor Aamir Khan’s TV show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ in its second episode brought in a new twist to the cause of child sex abuse. Focusing on childhood experience of one Harish Iyer from Mumbai, the episode has brought out the traumatic abuse of him for several years by a male relative. Since his mother did not realise his sorrow, the child ...