- India
Safai karmachari organisation demand reintroduction of educational schemes
New Delhi: A sanitation workers’ organisation has criticised the 2024-25 Union budget, claiming that schemes aimed at supporting marginalised communities, including those related to pre-matric scholarships and rehabilitation of manual scavengers, have…
- India
NITI meeting: PM Modi calls for zero poverty, Mamata stages walkout
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for setting zero poverty targets starting at village level at a meeting of NITI Aayog Governing Council that witnessed high drama with West…
- India
Maldives resume medical evacuations with India-gifted Dornier & helicopters
Male: The Maldives has resumed using a Dornier aircraft and two helicopters gifted by India for medical evacuations after the two countries reached an understanding over the repatriation of Indian military personnel…
- India
Meat consignment: Legal action to be taken based on analysis report
Bengaluru: A day after the chaos at Bengaluru railway station over a large shipment of meat, the Karnataka Food Safety and Standards department said on Saturday that samples of animal meat found…
- India
Telecom connectivity in all villages in next 12 months: Scindia
Guwahati: Union Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia said on Saturday that 100 per cent coverage of villages in terms of telecom connectivity in the country is targeted in the next 12 months. Scindia,…
- India
India steel production to cross 300MT by 2030: Official
Kolkata: Expressing optimism in steel demand amid headwinds, a senior central government official said on Saturday that the domestic production is likely to cross 300 million tonnes by 2030. The ministry also…
- India
Mamata Banerjee’s walkout was premeditated: BJP
New Delhi: The BJP took a swipe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for walking out of a NITI Aayog meeting here on Saturday, and said it was premeditated and aimed…
- India
SC to hear ED’s plea challenging bail to Hemant Soren on July 29
New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 29 an Enforcement Directorate plea challenging the Jharkhand High Court’s order granting bail to Chief Minister Hemant Soren in a money…
- World
Sea line of communication passing through South China Sea critical: Jaishankar
Vientiane: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday stressed the need for a substantive and effective code of conduct to secure sea lines of communication in the South China Sea which he…
- Kashmir
J&K: 5 children among 8 killed after car falls into gorge in Anantnag
Srinagar: Eight members of a family, including five children, were killed when their vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Saturday, officials…
- India
Adhir writes to President, alleges Bengal in ‘anarchic condition’
Kolkata: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, alleging that West Bengal is in an “anarchic condition” and sought her intervention to “restore law and order” in…
- India
Man’s intestines bulge out as Bihar railway cops thrash passenger
Samastipur: Government Railway Police personnel brutally beat up a person on board a train in Bihar, causing his intestines to come out as stitches on a recent abdominal surgery got ruptured, an…
- World
Harris narrows gap with Trump in presidential race: Media poll
Washington: The US presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is incredibly close, showed a new media poll, revealing a surge in support for Harris among non-white voters and a significant…
- India
MP: Boy rapes, kills sister after watching porn; family help in cover-up
Rewa (MP): Police probing the April 24 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa, has found that her teenage brother sexually assaulted her after watching a pornographic video…
- Chennai
TN CM asks if stopping Mamata in her NITI Aayog address is ‘cooperative federalism’
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Saturday condemned the Centre over his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee’s claim that she was unfairly stopped midway in her speech at the…
