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I think health is an issue: Trump

  WASHINGTON: After Hilary Clinton, who is the Democratic rival of Trump, recently revealed that she was suffering from pneumonia, Mr. Donald, the Republican presidential candidate on Monday said that, health was an issue in the campaign, adding that, he would release the detailed information of his health very soon. Trump in a telephonic interview with Fox News said that, he just hopes that she gets well and gets back on the trail, and they would be seeing her at the debate. When he was asked whether the candidate’s health was an issue, Trump said that, he thinks that that was an issue. In fact, that previous week he took a physical and when the numbers come in, he would be releasing very, very specific numbers.  

AAP’s lawmaker has been suspended

  NEW DELHI: Days after writing a letter, which alleged that the Aam Aadmi Party’s leaders in Punjab in return for tickets were exploiting women, to the Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejirwal, Devinder Sehrawat, AAP’s lawmaker had been suspended by the Kejirwal’s Party. Dilip Pandey, the Delhi unit convener said that, Sehrawat had been suspended by the disciplinary committee till pending enquiry. Mr. Sherwat responding to the decision of the party tweeted, “Repeated reports of molestation of women and sexual abuse, ring master Kejirwal obliging his lecherous coterie and adding more such candidates”.

‘Yudh Abhyas 2016’ is set to be conducted

  LUCKNOW: On Monday, a military official said, “As part of the ongoing Indo-US defense cooperation, a joint military training exercise called “Yudh Abhyas 2016” is set to be conducted in Uttarakhand from 14th to 27th of September”. The official also said that, it was a series of one of the longest running joint military training and a major ongoing bilateral defense cooperation endeavors between India and the United states. It was the 12th edition of the joint military exercise hosted alternately by the two countries, he added.

Intelligent transport system starts on NH8

  On Sunday, Nitin Gadkari, the Union Minister for Road Transport said, at a ceremony that has been held at Tau Devi Lal Sports Complex in Sector - 38, that, an intelligent transport system would be started soon on National Highway- 8. The travel time between the two cities will be reduced to two hours with the help of the new Access Controlled Highway, the land acquisition for which had already begun. Mr. Gadkari providing the Intelligent Transport System’s details said, “CCTV cameras will be installed on the highway to keep a close watch on the traffic movement, especially the violators”, adding that, everyone would have to follow the traffic rules and the violators would be made to cough up penalty.

He is fulfilling the PM’s dream: TM

  NEW DELHI: Manoj Sinha, the Telecom Minister abandoning the opprobrium over the ads of the Reliance Jio for featuring the Prime Minister’s image said that, there was nothing wrong in someone fulfilling the Prime Minister’s dream to provide digital connectivity.  The Telecom Minister said in an interview that, the intention of the Prime Minister’s Digital India campaign was to bridge the digital divide and use the internet as a growth enabler. If anyone was giving digital connectivity to people on a large scale, then in a way, he was fulfilling the dream of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said, adding “Then I do not see any objection”.

RSS: Shah should have met the protesters

  PANAJI: Lakshman Behare, the RSS chief who has been appointed recently said that, Amit Shah, the national President of BJP should have met the protesters and tried to understand the issue during his visit to Goa in the month of August.He made the statement supporting Subash Velgnkar, who was an RSS leader, for conducting a black flag protest during the BJP president’s visit to the state. On Sunday Behare said in an interview that, the protesters were showing black flags only to highlight the problems in the state. Amit Shah should have met them and tried to understand their issues, he said, adding “But Shah instead chose not to meet them. That was not right”.

Pyongyang is set to conduct another test

  SEOUL: Soon after Pyongyang ignited global censure with North Korea’s most powerful nuclear test, on Monday the defense ministry of South Korea said that, NK is set to conduct another nuclear test any time. Yonhap news agency of South Korea, referring to an unidentified government official, said that, Pyongyang had completed preparations for another nuclear test in its previously unused third tunnel at the site of Punggye-ri which is located in the north east. Moon Sang-Gyun told media that, an additional test could be conducted in a tunnel that branches off from the second tunnel or in the third tunnel, when preparations had been completed. 

Flipkart’s sale will be bigger this year

  NEW DELHI: In order to meet the festive demand, Flipkart is thinking to hire over 10,000 temporary staff in logistics. Nitin Seth, chief administrative officer of Flipkart said that, with festive season coming in, they were confident that the Big Billion days would be bigger and better in the year 2016. In addition to the new capability of the alternate delivery model, they were looking at hiring over 10,000 temporary staff in logistics and last mile across the country, he added. Mr. Seth said, “This will be done to meet the massive demand that our company expects during the festive season”. When he was asked about the recent reports of Flipkart, which said that it would lay off 800 people, he responded to it and said that they completely and unequivocally deny any layoffs at the company in the coming months, that that was completely false and baseless and that there were no plans for layoffs in any team in the coming months. 

‘Flexi fare system has got good response’

  NEW DELHI: Mohammad Jamshed, a Railway board member said that, their flexi fare system had got a good response and the passengers had responded well to the scheme as there was about 30% booking in the last two days. It is known that, the flexi rate system had been introduced by the railways in Shatabdi, Duronto and Rajdhani expresses from 9th of September and according to Jamshed, the railways had earned Rs.84 lakh and Rs.81 lakh more on September 9th and 10th due to the flexi fare system. It had been accused that the train fares had become costlier than air fares. Jamshed responded to the accusation and said to the reporters that, despite of flexi-fare system, train cost was still lower than the airfare.

UHM reviewed India’s internal security

  NEW DELHI: On Sunday, the internal security situation of the country has been reviewed by Rajnath Singh, the Union Home Minister who was accompanied by the security agencies as well as the ministry’s senior officials. A Home Ministry official said that, that was a normal security review meeting that the Home Minister had convened. As the minister had been out of town for some time, he decided to review the situation on Sunday and there was nothing special to it, the official said. He also said that, it was a routine review meeting, adding “The UHM decided to take stock of the situation, hence the meeting”.

The left needs to introspect: JNUSU

  NEW DELHI: On Sunday, Kanhaiya Kumar, the president of JNUSU said that, the left needs to introspect; it could no longer be comfortable in the pockets of Tripura, Bengal and Kerala and be ignorant of what was happening elsewhere in the country. Mr. Kumar said that, he stand by his statement that if anybody thinks the BJP was not fascist, it was because of a wrong political understanding of the reality. Kanhaiya in reference with the comments made by the ex-CPM general secretary stated that, there was a certain veteran CPM leader, a former student of JNU who said that the Modi government was authoritarian and not fascist, Kanhaiya wants to say him, “Comrade, if you don’t want to fight anymore, please retire and go to New York. We will fight our battle”.

Judges’ appointment process must speed up

  BILASPUR: On Sunday, T S Thakur, the Chief Justice of India said that, the process of appointment of judges must be accelerated. The Justice said that, there were 12 judges per 10 lakh people in the country and at least three crore cases were pending in the courts.  There was a need to speed up the process of appointment to vacant posts of judges and as per the report of Law Commission in 1987, 40,000 judges were needed then, he said, adding “But, even today the strength of judiciary is only 18000”. The Chief Justice stated that, if any person, belonging to any sector, was not honest, then he must be a trader. “An arbitrator should not be a trader and is not supposed to sell judgment. Therefore, honesty is the foremost quality in the judiciary”, he added. 

We’ll waive off all farmers’ loans: Rahul

JAUNPUR: On Saturday, Rahul Gandhi, the vice president of Congress party professed that, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was busy paying off the debts of the industrialists who funded the election campaign of Modi adding, “He is least interested about the farmers’ debts”. Barathiya Janatha Party – led National Democratic Alliance at the Centre was lashed out and was accused by Rahul Gandhi for not being worried about the farmers’ pitiable plight. Rahul stated that, if their government comes, they would waive off all the loans of the farmers. He also asked the people at the rally whether they have got Rs.15 lakh in their bank accounts or not, to which they replied saying no and Rahul in response to the reply said that, the Prime Minister was in fact wearing the suits costing Rs 15 lakh.

Talgo can climb hills at a faster speed

MUMBAI: The trial run between Mumbai Central and New Delhi has been completed within 11 hours 48 minutes by Talgo, which is a high speed train from Spain. The trail has covered a distance of 1384 KM, carrying out at the maximum speed of 150KMPH. According to an Indian Railway official says that, the train is able to achieve faster acceleration and deceleration, besides running at fast speeds on curves. Its coaches are lighter in weight and can hence reached destinations faster than conventional coaches that run on Indian Railways. He stated that, Talgo could negotiate curves and could climb any hills at much faster speed when compared to the conventional Indian trains.

I personally trust Modi: Nepal PM

Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Prime Minister of Nepal who has been elected recently said, “My priority will be to build the foundation of trust with India during my upcoming visit to New Delhi”. Kamal is going to visit India from 15th of September and this is his first foreign trip after being elected as PM. Kamal admitted that the previous years had not been good for India-Nepal ties. “Nepali people and I personally trust Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, and I will seek to build on it”, Prachanda added He said that, Modi and he think in similar ways and they had chemistry. There was no difference in circumstances and their ideology, but that was a different issue, adding “He is a strong PM, elected with a majority, of a country as big as India. We trust Modiji and now we have to pay attention and strengthen the trust”.

Heavy vehicles will be banned in Khandala

PUNE: On Saturday, expressway authorities and Highway Safety Patrol decided to ban the heavy vehicles movement for few hours on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway during the weekends, Mondays and public holidays. The decision has been made so as to check the traffic jams on the highway, especially in the ghat section of Khandala. However, vehicles that transport perishable commodities have been exempted from the ban. Amol Tambe, the Superintendent of police said that, the HSP officers would stop heavy or loaded vehicles that are heading towards Pune at the Khalapur toll post and a separate lane had been created for them for Fridays and Saturdays. 

Afghan closes Pak’s transit route: Ghani

ISLAMABAD: On Saturday, Afghan’s local media reported that, Kabul had warned that it would block the transit route of Pakistan to central Asian countries if Afghanistan tradesmen are not allowed by Pak to use Wagah border to trade with India. Ahraf Ghani, the President of Afghanistan, in a meeting with Owen Jenkins which happened at Kabul, said that, If Pakistan doesn’t allow Afghan traders to use the Wagah border for imports and exports of their goods, Afghan would also not allow Pak to use the transit route of Afghanistan to reach Asia and other countries for trade. The President said that, Afghan wants Pak and other regional countries to remove all the technical problems that create obstacles in economic cooperation, adding “But Islamabad usually closes transit routes during the fruit season which has been causing millions of dollars loss to Afghan tradesmen”.

PPCC is set to fight alone in elections

On Saturday, Capitan Amarinder Singh, the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee said that, the People’s party of Punjab as well as the Shiromani Akali Dal had already merged with Congress, the Bahujan Samaj Party had decided to contest all 117 seats, the Left parties had failed to take a decision with regard to the alliance. Therefore, PPCC is ready to contest alone in the Punjab assembly elections, he said. Arvind Kejiriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party convener was ridiculed by Amarinder Singh, the Punjab Congress Chief for stating that, after Aam Aadmi Party comes to power, Anandpur Sahib and Amritsar would be made as holy cities. Mr. Singh added that, Kejirwal had no knowledge about Punjab and said that, Amritsar and Anandpur Sahib had already been declared as holy cities.

NPAs are a concern in our banking system

CHENNAI: Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India, said in an event that has been conducted to celebrate 100 years of KVB that, the Indian economy and the Indian banking system were doing reasonably well when compared to the Western counterparts. Non-performing assets were a concern, but overall system was resilient and far more insulated to shocks, the President added. At the University Centenary Auditorium, Madras University, he said that, in 2008, what started with small mortgage loans ended up as international financial crisis from which we were yet to recover, adding “But, the Indian banking industry still stood firm and strong due to sagacious management”.