PM Modi Meets Ministers Over Punjab Attack
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and other senior ministers over a terror attack in a Punjab town that left nine people dead. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu also attended the meeting.Parrikar had earlier... read more »
Delhi on high alert after Gurdaspur attack, security stepped up
Authorities sounded high alert across Delhi on Monday with hundreds of policemen deployed at railway stations, railway stations, shopping malls and crowded markets in the wake of a terrorist attack in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district that left five people dead. A burst tyre near Parliament also... read more »
Four killed as terrorists storm Punjab police station
India tightened security on its border with Pakistan on Monday after terrorists dressed in army uniforms stormed a police station in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, killing at least four people and injuring several others. The dead included two civilians and two policemen. Unconfirmed reports,... read more »
BJP plan for the monsoon session: Big on political firepower, low on legisl...
Having weathered the opposition’s protests over its leaders’ alleged involvement in various scandals by simply holding firm, the BJP-led NDA government has decided to follow the same strategy in Parliament as well, which could well mean that the upcoming monsoon session willl be a damp... read more »
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