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Union Budget 2016-17: Spreading benefits, casting tax net wider
29 Feb 2016
The spending package for the 2016-17 fiscal marks a radical shift from the Modi government's initial focus on big-ticket infrastructure investment to kick-start private-sector investment, as growth will now trickle in smaller bouts and mainly from rural development
Cops did not act while I was beaten: JNU's Kanhaiya Kumar
27 Feb 2016
JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is in police custody in connection with the sedition case, told the Supreme Court team that even after identifying the people who attacked him in the court, the police did not arrest them
Yechuri invokes Mahatma, Bhagat Singh to lash govt
25 Feb 2016
The JNU row continued to reverberate in Parliament today as Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury made a powerful speech against the government, asking it if dissent is considered sedition
JNU row: students surrender, grilled for 5 hours
24 Feb 2016
JNU row: Kanhaiya’s bail plea to be heard on 29 Feb
24 Feb 2016
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail petition to 29 February, after the Delhi Police told the court that it would seek his remand afresh from a trial court
BJP sees Congress conspiracy in Jat violence
24 Feb 2016
Lawyer arrested for bashing up JNU student leaders in custody
24 Feb 2016
After a media sting operation showing lawyers bragging that they had beat up JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar in jail while cops stood watching, one of them has been arrested while a summons is out for two more
PM hopes for smooth Budget session, oppn unlikely to oblige
23 Feb 2016
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said before the Budget session of parliament that the opposition has shown ‘positive steps’, but with issues like the Jat agitation and the JNU row dominating headlines, the session is unlikely to be smooth sailing
Jat stir to cost northern states Rs34,000 cr
23 Feb 2016
North Indian states are likely to incur a Rs34,000 crore loss in economic activity due to Jat agitation, the PHD Chamber has said, observing that prices of essential commodities may rise due to supply constraints
Army brought in as Jat stir in Haryana intensifies
20 Feb 2016
Life was disrupted in Rohtak and Bhiwani, the epicentres of the Jat agitation for quotas, as well as in other districts where there was violence, forcing the army to hold flag marches and issue curfew orders
JNU row: SC rejects Kanhaiya’s bail plea, tells him to approach HC
19 Feb 2016
The Supreme Court today directed Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar to approach the Delhi High Court for bail first
Noam Chomsky, Nobel laureate Pamuk join chorus against JNU student’s arrest
17 Feb 2016
86 academicians, scientists and writers from across the world, including MIT's professor emeritus Noam Chomsky and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, have condemned the sedition charges against JNU student union president
Centre claims 100% digitisation of ration cards
13 Feb 2016
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