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New Delhi, July 13 (ANI): Former Union Minister and Congress leader Rajiv Shukla on Sunday, expressed his shock over the Union minister of state for tourism and culture, Shripad Naik’s statement on putting a rein on pub culture which exists in parts of the country. “I am shocked by the statement of Shripad Naik. If the tourism minister has such thinking then how will tourism of our country expand?,” Shukla said. On Saturday, Union minister of state for tourism and culture, Shripad Naik had called for controlling the pub culture in the country, saying that it leads to unwanted things.

Mysore/Bangalore (Karnataka), July 13 (ANI): Union Minister for Railway D V Sadananda Gowda today held a surprise inspection of Bangalore City Railway Station to check its cleanliness. Gowda also boarded a train to Mysore thereafter and was received by supporters at the Byadarahalli Railway station, which is 20km away from Mysore. While speaking to the media Gowda said, “cleanliness in bogies of train need improvement;

Ahmedabad, July 13 (ANI): Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday, claimed that the recent budget presented by the government, had every ingredient to pull the economy out of rut and sought some time from the opposition to rectify the situation. Every ingredient is present in the budget that will ensure that good days come back. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had presented the General Budget for fiscal 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha on July 10 which has not been welcomed by the Congress and the opposition who term this budget as not meant for the common man.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Ken Gray, who represented southern Illinois in Congress and earned the nickname the “Prince of Pork” for bringing $7 billion in projects to his district, died Saturday at age 89.

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A Democrat running for Congress in conservative central Washington on Saturday removed an online campaign video that showed him blasting an elephant-shaped piñata with a shotgun.

Hyderabad, Khammam (Telangana), July 12 (ANI): Telangana observed shutdown on Saturday to protest the passing of a Bill in the Lok Sabha that paves the way for merger of villages with Andhra Pradesh. Activists of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Communist Party of India (CPI), and Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPI-M) took to streets in Khammam district in Telangana to protest against the construction of Polavaram irrigation project and the passing of Polavaram Bill for transferring over 200 villages to neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.

Mumbai, July 12 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday lent his party’s support to the bill introduced by the government in Parliament to amend TRAI Act in respect to the appointment of Nripendra Mishra as principal secretary to the Prime Minister. Misra, joined the PMO the same day the ordinance was promulgated and the bill has been brought to give his appointment the requisite legal backing.

New Delhi, July 12 (ANI): Congress leaders from the Delhi unit on Saturday described Saturday’s party meeting as focussed on developing a strategy to fight for the problems faced by the people residing in the national capital. “Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed had called for a meeting of leaders who had fought in the Assembly elections to strengthen the party in view of the people of Delhi facing crisis in regards to shortage of power and water. It was a fruitful meeting and based on the proposals given by all the party will work upon a strategy,” Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely said. Another Congress leader and former minister in Delhi Haroon Yusuf said: “The meeting was called by the senior leader of the AICC was to take stock of the matter as to how the BJP and AAP had bluffed the people before the elections.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stung by sticker shock, members of Congress are scrambling to lower the cost of a bill to fix veterans’ health care amid a growing uproar over long waits for appointments and falsification of records to cover up the delays at Veterans Affairs hospitals.