India gets huge support on Kashmir among British MPs
Darpan News Desk IANS, 11 Sep, 2014 10:41 AM
India turned the tables on Pakistan at a debate by British MPs Thursday.
Not only did more than twice the number of speakers support the Indian position on the subject, as compared to the figure endorsing the Pakistani stance, but those speaking for Islamabad had nothing to offer other than staple Pakistani propaganda, whereas the former reeled off irrefutable facts and figures and persuasive arguments.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday his government will work for the poor, improve the lot of the weaker sections including Muslims, curb price rise, take all political parties along in its march to progress and seek to change India's identity from "scam India" to "skill India" .
A study by an international team using satellite and ground-based instruments has shown that crop residue burning, a common practice in northern India and particularly in Punjab, is contributing to atmospheric pollution over the entire Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) that may have climate and health implications.
The BJP-led NDA government, which has affordable housing for all as one of its objectives, will study the Gujarat model of housing for poor, Union Minister of Housing and Poverty Alleviation M. Venkaiah Naidu said here Tuesday.
A Delhi court Monday awarded life imprisonment to 17 of the 18 policemen convicted of killing a 22-year-old MBA student in a fake shootout in Dehradun in 2009.
The bodies of five engineering students were retrieved Monday from the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district while a search is on for 21 others who were washed away. A court described it as "consequence of utter and callous negligence".
