Monthly Archives: June 2015
Economy shrinks and middle class jobs harder to come by under Conservatives: NDP
June 30th, 2015
Weak GDP numbers another sign Stephen Harper’s Conservative plan isn’t working While too many Canadian families struggle to make ends meet and household debt rises to record levels, the Canadian economy shrank for the fourth month in a row, ...
India’s April-May fiscal deficit at over 37 per cent of estimate
June 30th, 2015
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) India’s fiscal deficit in the first two months (April-May) of the current financial year touched Rs.208,624 crore, or 37.5 per cent of the target for the current fiscal, official data showed on Tuesday. This compares ...
Kejriwal says Modi ‘bullying’ AAP government
June 30th, 2015
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday hit out at the “gundagardi” (bullying) of the Narendra Modi government, which he said was preventing his government from doing its work in the national capital. He attacked ...
Windies to play tri-series against Zimbabwe, Pakistan
June 30th, 2015
Bridgetown (Barbados), June 30 (IANS) The West Indies will take part in a three-nation series with Zimbabwe and Pakistan in Zimbabwe, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced following its quarterly meeting here. The tri-series will take place from mid-August ...
Delhi assembly passes bill to amend VAT act
June 30th, 2015
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) The bill to amend the VAT law in Delhi, thus enabling the AAP government to regulate tax rates on petroleum products, liquor and aerated drinks, was passed by the assembly on Tuesday, amid a walkout ...
Rahane will gain valuable experience by leading India: Vengsarkar
June 30th, 2015
Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) Former India skipper and ex-chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar on Tuesday hailed batsman Ajinkya Rahane, who was named Indian team’s captain for the Zimbabwe series, as a consistent performer who has come of age, and said he ...
TV too small for me, says Subhash Ghai
June 30th, 2015
New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) While most big production banners and filmmakers have tried their hand at TV, which they consider no more a “small screen” now, filmmaker Subhash Ghai says he is too big for the ‘idiot box’. Ghai’s ...
Not a clash: SRK on releasing ‘Raees’ with Salman’s ‘Sultan’
June 30th, 2015
Mumbai, June 30 (IANS) For the industry, the Eid release of Salman Khan’s “Sultan” and Shah Rukh Khan’s “Raees” will be a clash of the Bollywood titans at the box office in 2016, but SRK says they are now both ...
Conservative EI mismanagement hurts poorest families: NDP
June 30th, 2015
The Conservative government’s serious mismanagement of the Employment Insurance system has hurt Canada’s poorest families, the NDP said today. Since 2007, hundreds of low income families have not received the millions in EI benefits they were entitled to because ...
113 feared dead in Indonesian military plane crash
June 30th, 2015
Jakarta, June 30 (IANS) All 113 people on board a Hercules C-130 military cargo aircraft were feared killed when the military plane crashed into a residential area in Medan city on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, media reported. A total ...
