NEW DELHI: Nearly half of the sanctioned positions on pollution control boards and committees across the country remain vacant even as most major cities are reeling under the impact of air pollution, reveals the answer to a recent question in Parliament.The answers to other questions this year show that this has been the case over […]
NEW DELHI: Set to consign the Congress-stamped MGNREGA to history, Modi govt will unveil a new law on guaranteed unskilled rural jobs, with a structure that will shift the Centre’s financial burden to states, provide fixed budgets for states instead of the present practice of it being demand-driven, and annually pause the scheme for two […]
NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies are alarmed and closely monitoring the expansion of terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Satellite imagery and photographs reveal the construction of a new “dual-use facility” in the Neelum Valley district.Since November, LeT accelerated the infrastructure build-up of the new centre, named “Jamia Masjid Ibn Taymiyah wa Markaz,” being erected in […]
NEW DELHI: In a boost to India’s rotary wing combat capabilities, the Army is set to get delivery of three remaining Apache AH-64 attack helicopters from US, while the Navy will commission its second squadron of MH-60R Seahawk submarine-hunting choppers this week.The induction of these much-delayed American helicopters will plug existing operational gaps but the […]
NEW DELHI: In the middle of Laxmi Nagar market is a single room, easy to miss in the chaos, that holds a few chairs. Seated are young men and women from Delhi, UP and Haryana, busy polishing ‘Ikura desu ka’ and ‘tetsudatte kuremasu ka’, Japanese phrases that translate, respectively, to ‘how much is this’ and […]
Former Bihar chief minister and RJD leader Rabri Devi (PTI) NEW DELHI: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday opposed former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi’s request to transfer criminal cases from the court of Special Judge Vishal Gogne, arguing before a Delhi court that the plea amounted to “forum-shopping” and was meant to “demean […]
NEW DELHI: West Bengal Police on Saturday detained the main organiser of an event in Kolkata’s Salt Lake stadium after chaos erupted over Argentine football star Lionel Messi’s brief appearance.During a press briefing, Kolkata DGP Rajeev Kumar said that the police are taking action to ensure the mismanagement “does not go unpunished.”“We have already detained […]
The Union Cabinet has greenlit a bill to open India’s nuclear power sector to private players, a move crucial for achieving 100 GW nuclear capacity by 2047. The SHANTI Bill proposes changes to civil liability laws, caps supplier liability, and allows up to 49% foreign direct investment. This aims to boost domestic energy production and […]
JAMMU: Alert BSF troops detained a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist near the Indo-Pak international border in J&K’s Akhnoor district and seized an M-5 rifle and magazines from him, officials said Friday.Officials identified the JeM operative as Abdul Khalik, a native of Margah village in Rajouri district, who had illegally migrated to Pakistan in 2021.Earlier this week, […]
