Thane, June 12 (PTI): Lack of jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic has forced some young men who have college degrees to work as `nullah' (drain) cleaners in the Mumbra area near here.
But they are not asha
NEW DELHI, JUNE 12 (IANS): India has for the first time formed a policy to compile, archive, declassify, and publish military operations and war histories.
Earlier there was no such provision. Indian Defence
NEW DELHI, JUNE 12 (IANS): All mainstream media, including print and electronic, will have to comply the provisions of IT Rules, 2021 with immediate effect without exemption as the government has refused to exe
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 12 (IANS): The Attapadi areas where a sizeable tribal population lives in Palakkad district has been unwilling to get vaccinated against Covid-19, so a doctor went out of the way to enc
New York, June 12 (IANS) Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won the US' top journalism award, the Pulitzer Prize, for innovative investigative reports harnessing satellite technology that expose
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) The coronavirus situation in India appears to be stabilizing as the country recorded 84,332 new Covid cases, and 4,002 deaths due to the virus in the last 24 hours, according to data r
Kolkata, June 11 (PTI): In a blow to the prestige of the Bharatiya Janata Party, it's national Vice President Mukul Roy along with son Subhranshu, re-joined Trinamool Congress on Friday, with Bengal Chief M
Chennai, June 11 (IANS): MDMK general secretary and firebrand leader Vaiko has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make efforts to conduct a referendum among the global Tamil diaspora for a sovereign state of
CHENNAI, JUNE 11 (IANS): With the Covid pandemic creating a financial crisis and parents finding it difficult to make ends meet, girls under the marriageable age are being married off in the state.
A study c
Shimla, June 11 (IANS): Congress veteran and six-time Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Friday tested positive for Covid-19, the second time in less than 60 days, doctors said on Friday.
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JAIPUR, JUNE 11 (IANS): Renowned neurologist Ashok Panagariya passed away here on Friday after suffering from post-Covid complications.
He was in a hospital for over 25 days as his lungs were damaged even as
New Delhi, June 11 (PTI): The Centre on Friday welcomed recommendations by a group of experts that mass, indiscriminate and incomplete vaccination can trigger emergence of mutant strains and that there is no ne
NEW DELHI, JUNE 11 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Friday expressed shock and declined to entertain a plea by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh seeking transfer of all inquiries against him outside
New Delhi, June 11 (PTI): The ICMR will start national-level sero surveys to assess the spread of COVID-19 and all states/UTs should also be encouraged to conduct them so that information from all geographies c
New Delhi, June 11 (PTI): A pregnant woman Friday approached the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the Centre to include pregnant women in COVID-19 vaccination drive on priority basis.
The high court was
New Delhi, June 11 (PTI): The Supreme Court Friday termed as "arbitrary" the fixing of June 16 for conducting INI CET 2021 and directed All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to hold the post
New Delhi, June 11 (PTI): Amid media reports alleging 'vaccine hesitancy' among health workers in rural areas, the Union Health Ministry on Friday said it is working closely with states and union territ
New Delhi, June 11 (PTI): The Supreme Court Friday said it would pass orders on June 15 on closure of proceedings in India against two Italian marines, accused of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast in F
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS): On the day when the Congress is protesting against fuel price hike across the country, former party president Rahul Gandhi attacked the government for looting the country.
In
Jaipur, June 11 (IANS): Following Centre's decision to cancel the Class 12 examinations of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the Rajasthan government on June 2 also cancelled the state b