New Delhi: India has had an “exceptionally difficult” challenge along the northern borders in the last three years and the country responded to it very resolutely and has been maintaining the kind of military deployment necessary for national security, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday on the lingering row in eastern Ladakh with … Read more
New Delhi, Over 9.9 lakh health melas at health and wellness centres have been organised under the Ayushman Bhav campaign since September 17 that have recorded 705.69 lakh footfall, the government told the Parliament this week. The number of people who received free drugs is 468.81 lakh, while 372.61 lakh received free diagnostics services. The … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PTI file Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that BJP’s landslide victories in Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan assembly polls show that people resonate with ‘Modi’s guarantee,’ adding that elections cannot be won by making ‘false promises.’ Modi’s remarks came as he virtually addressed the beneficiaries of the Viksit Bharat … Read more
NEW DELHI: India has showed that there is no irreconcilable trade-off between growth and distributive justice, and the government is making all efforts to further boost the country’s position as a growth engine, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday.In an address at the annual general meeting of FICCI, Singh said India, as the fastest … Read more
Minister of State for External Affairs, V. Muraleedharan, in a written response to a query in Rajya Sabha, revealed the number of Indian students who have died in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, and other countries. According to the response, with 91 deaths, Canada recorded the highest number of fatalities among students from India … Read more
New Delhi | Mumbai: Vedanta Resources, the London-based parent of India’s oil-to-metals conglomerate Vedanta, is close to finalizing a $1.25 billion loan availed jointly from Standard Chartered Bank and Cerberus Capital Management that could help it avert a default on bonds due in January, said people aware of the matter. Standard Chartered Bank will underwrite … Read more
The Popular Front of India (PFI) and its affiliates, including Rehab India Foundation (RIF), Campus Front of India (CFI), All India Imams Council (AIIC), National Confederation of Human Rights Organisation (NCHRO), National Women’s Front, Junior Front, Empower India Foundation, and Rehab Foundation, Kerala, have so far been deemed a “unlawful association” under the provisions of … Read more
DUBAI: Calling out rich nations for their failure to mobilise adequate resources for developing countries, India on Friday asked for clarity in the very definition of ‘climate finance‘ and said the absence of it leads to lack of trust and transparency.“In my view, the minimum short-term action that we need to prioritise and work together … Read more
New Delhi: A majority of the women rape victims in Delhi in 2021 was in the 18-30 age group, accounting for more than 72 per cent, a state government report released on Friday said. The Directorate of Economics and Statistics in its report stated that in 2021, of a total of 1,251 rape victims in … Read more
Guwahati: Assam government has decided to carry out Socio-economic assessment for indigenous Assamese Muslims through the Directorate of Minority Affairs & Char Areas. Assam has the highest Muslim population after Jammu and Kashmir. Muslims comprise 34% of the 3.12 crore population of Assam, of which 4% are indigenous Assamese Muslims and the remaining mostly Bengali-speaking … Read more
