India

Bengal floods: PM dials Mamata, assures her of all help; CM accuses DVC of causing 'man-made' deluge

Kolkata, August 4 (PTI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday complained to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) allegedly released water from its dams in an

India / 4th August 2021

5 of family killed as wall collapses on house due to heavy rain in Rajasthan

Kota, August 4 (PTI): Five members of a family were killed after a wall collapsed on their house due to incessant heavy rain in Rajasthan's Bundi district, police said on Wednesday. Two other member

India / 4th August 2021

I was deeply jaded & disappointed, but politicians can't mourn for long: Omar on Art 370 abrogation

Srinagar, August 4 (PTI): Two years after the special status of Jammu And Kashmir was abrogated and he was detained for 234 days, NC leader Omar Abdullah said on Wednesday that after initially being "deepl

India / 4th August 2021

India's composite Global Hunger Index score improves in 2020

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 4 (IANS): India's ranking in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) in the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 was 80, 97, 100, 103, 102 and 94, respectively, and its score improved from 38

India / 4th August 2021

Citizenship under CAA only after issuance of rules; no more amendments in law proposed

New Delhi, August 4 (PTI): The Centre said on Wednesday that Indian citizenship to the eligible beneficiaries under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will be given only after rules under the legislation are n

India / 4th August 2021

India sees jump in Covid infections, logs 42,625 cases in a day

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 4 (IANS): India on Wednesday took a high jump in daily Covid infections and reported 42,625 new cases across the nation in 24 hours. A total of 562 deaths were reported in the same span of tim

India / 4th August 2021

14 Opposition parties blame govt for Parliament logjam, demand debate on Pegasus, farmers' issue

New Delhi, August 4 (PTI): Leaders of 14 opposition parties on Wednesday said the responsibility for the deadlock in Parliament lies squarely with the government and urged it to respect parliamentary democracy

India / 4th August 2021

Kashmir conflict has become a family-run business: Report

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 3 (IANS): The Kashmir conflict has become a 'family business run by a set of families, and like a family business, it is passed on from one generation to the next, DisinfoLab reported.

India / 3rd August 2021

2-year-old girl who weighed 45 kg undergoes bariatric surgery at Delhi hospital

New Delhi, August 3 (PTI): A two-year-old girl who weighed nearly 45 kg and was wheelchair-bound was operated upon for removal of a part of her stomach at a private hospital in Delhi, with the hospital claiming

India / 3rd August 2021

No proposal under consideration for bifurcation of any state, including Tamil Nadu: MoS Home

New Delhi, August 3 (PTI): The Centre has no proposal under its consideration for bifurcation of any state, including Tamil Nadu, even though demands are received from various individuals and organisations from

India / 3rd August 2021

One plus R value in 8 states a major concern: Health Ministry

NEW DELHI, AUGUST 3 (IANS): The case trajectory of Covid-19 in India has registered substantial decline, from over four lakhs per day at the peak of the second wave to 30,549 on August 3, said Joint Secretary i

India / 3rd August 2021

Inefficient ration delivery systems since Independence did not fully benefit poor: Modi

Ahmedabad, August 3 (PTI): The scope and budget of cheap ration schemes rose since Independence but the effect it should have had on the poor remained limited due to ineffective delivery systems and selfish ele

India / 3rd August 2021

MP rains: 1,171 villages hit by floods; 3 people stranded atop tree, 5 others rescued

Bhopal, August 3 (PTI): Three people stranded on a tree for about 24 hours and five others were rescued from flood-hit Shivpuri district in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday following "unprecedented heavy rains&qu

India / 3rd August 2021

Over 93,000 cybercrime cases reported in 3 years: Govt to LS

New Delhi, August 3 (PTI): Over 93,000 cases of cybercrimes were reported in the country between 2017 and 2019, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said tha

India / 3rd August 2021

Editors Guild files plea in SC seeking SIT investigation into Pegasus snooping matter

New Delhi, August 3 (PTI): The Editors Guild of India has filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking that a special investigation team (SIT) be set up to conduct probe into the reported surveillance of journalis

India / 3rd August 2021

CBSE class 10 results: 99.04 pc students pass; girls outshine boys by narrow margin

New Delhi, August 3 (PTI): Girls outshone boys by a slender margin of 0.35 per cent while 99.04 per cent students passed the class 10 exams, the results which were declared by the CBSE on Tuesday. According

India / 3rd August 2021

CBSE class 10 result: Over 57,000 students score above 95 pc, over 2 lakh 90-95 per cent scorers

New Delhi, August 3 (PTI): Over 57,000 students have scored above 95 per cent marks in class 10 while the number of candidates scoring between 90 and 95 per cent has gone up to over two lakh, according to the C

India / 3rd August 2021

55 pc of sanctioned OBC posts in central universities lying vacant: Govt

New Delhi, August 2 (PTI): Nearly 55 percent of the sanctioned OBC posts in central universities across the country are lying vacant while the vacancies for the category at Indian Institute for Science (IISc),

India / 2nd August 2021

Tribunals Reforms Bill introduced in Lok Sabha

New Delhi, August 2 (PTI): A bill to abolish as many as nine appellate tribunals set up under various Acts was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday. The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2021, which seeks to replace

India / 2nd August 2021

Will take up caste-based census demand with centre;option open for state-level exercise:Nitish

Patna, August 2 (PTI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday asserted that he will take up the demand for caste-based census with the Centre and that in the event of a disagreement over the issue his gove

India / 2nd August 2021

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