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Elections in J&K in three phases, polling dates Sep 18, Sep 25 and October 1; counting of votes on October 4: CEC Rajiv Kumar.

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National

PAC to review performance of regulatory bodies

AMID a political storm over allegations of conflict of interest against SEBI chairperson Madhabi Buch, the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has decided to review the performance of regulatory bodies established by Acts of Parliament. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman K C Venugopal said the Committee will take a decision on summoning Buch for examination of allegations against her. “Rest of the things, the Committee has to take a decision,” Venugopal said to questions on summoning the SEBI c

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Wrestlers Vinesh, Bajrang join Cong

ENDING days of speculation, wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joined the Congress on Friday ahead of the Haryana Assembly polls. Phogat and Punia met Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge at his 10, Rajaji Marg, residence. They later joined the Congress at the AICC headquarters in the presence of Congress general secretary in-charge organisation KC Venugopal, AICC general secretary in-charge Haryana Deepak Babaria, Haryana Congress chief Uday Bhan and the Congress’ media and publicity head Pawan Khe

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Praveen Kumar leaps to gold in high jump

INDIA’S Praveen Kumar dazzled with a record-breaking performance in the men’s high jump T64 event, adding a Paralympic gold to his Tokyo Games silver here on Friday. The 21-year-old from Noida, who was born with a short leg, smashed the Asian record with a best jump of 2.08m in the six-jumper field to finish on top of the podium. USA’s Derek Loccident claimed the silver with a jump of 2.06m while Uzbekistan’s Temurbek Giyazov, who notched a personal best 2.03m, finished third. Opting to start from 1.89m, Ku

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ED raids houses of Ghosh, his aides, detains one

THE Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday detained Prasun Chattopadhyay, a data entry operator at the Calcutta National Medical College and a known associate of arrested ex-RG Kar hospital principal Sandip Ghosh, in connection with alleged financial irregularities at the latter institution, an officer said. Chattopadhyay was seen being taken out of his residence at Subhasgram in South 24 Parganas district around 2 pm by ED officials, who previously conducted search operations at the premises for over seven

SEP. 07, 2024

Many ‘Singapores’

PRIME Minister Mr. Narendra Modi has talked of India wanting to create ‘several Singapores’ of its own. He has insisted that Singapore offers a great model of development that India wishes to follow. There should be no contesting this vision of the Prime Minister -- since it gels well with the national developmental aspirations. In other words, the Prime Minister is actually leading the larger Indian society’s aspirational thought-process by talking of replication of Singapore’s model of development. This i

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BJP launches manifesto for J&K polls, makes 25 promises

UNION Home Minister Amit Shah released on Friday the BJP’s manifesto for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls, and asserted that Article 370 has become “history” and will never make a comeback in the Union Territory. Addressing a press conference here, the senior BJP leader said, the last 10-year period will be written in golden letters in the history of the country and J&K, and urged people to vote his party to power to continue good governance. Shah reached Jammu earlier in the day on a two-day visit to k

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Govt approves new treatment for multi-drug resistant TB

THE Union Health Ministry has approved the introduction of the BPaLM regimen, a novel treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) under its National TB Elimination Programme as a highly effective and shorter treatment option. This regimen includes a new anti-TB drug namely Pretomanid in combination with Bedaquiline and Linezolid (with or without Moxifloxacin), the Ministry said in a statement. Pretomanid has earlier been approved and licensed for use in India by the Central Drugs Standard Contr

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India, Maldives hold defence dialogue Focus on Indian Ocean

INDIA and the Maldives on Friday held a fresh round of “productive” defence dialogue with a focus on the situation in the Indian Ocean and ways to expedite implementation of ongoing defence projects. The defence dialogue in Delhi took place nearly a month after External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar paid a three-day visit to the Maldives, in the first high-level trip from New Delhi after the island nation’s pro-China President Mohammed Muizzu assumed office. “The entire range of talks were productive which

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Mah’s first solar park starts power generation for farmers

THE first solar park of 3 MW capacity under the MahaYuti Government’s ambitious Mukhyamantri Saur Krishi Vahini Yojana (MSKVY) 2.0 has been activated in Dhondalgaon village in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district. Nearly 1,753 farmers will get 12 hours of uninterrupted power supply during day time from this project. The solar energy project which started power generation on Thursday is developed on 13-acre public land at Dhondalgaon about 3 km from the electricity substation of Maharashtra State Electricity D

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Reduce, Reuse, Recharge and Recycle water --PM Modi

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stressed the need to save water, saying India has only four per cent of freshwater resources in the world, and suggested that people should adopt the mantra of ‘reduce, reuse, recharge and r

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15 killed, 13 injured after bus hits van on Agra-Aligarh NH in UP

AT LEAST 15 people, including four women and an equal number of children, travelling in a van were killed on Friday after a roadways bus hit the vehicle from behind on National Highway 93 here, officials said. Thirteen others were injured in the accident and they have been admitted to a Government hospital. Taking cognisance of the accident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed district officials to reach the spot and take care of relief measures. The Chief Minister has also asked officials

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International

India-Singapore ties to get boost: MEA ahead of Modi’s 2-day visit

International

India-Singapore ties to get boost: MEA ahead of Modi’s 2-day visit

BUILDING on “new anchors” of partnership identified under the India-Singapore ministerial roundtable framework, the relations between the two countries is poised for an even bigger take-off, the MEA said on Monday ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Singapore. Prime Minister Modi is slated to visit Singapore on September 4-5 at the invitation of his Singaporean counterpart Lawrence Wong. Prior to that he is scheduled to visit Brunei on September 3-4 which seeks to further strengthen bilateral c

03 Sep, 2024

International

Bangladesh’s interim Govtlifts ban on Jamaat-e-Islami

BANGLADESH’S interim Government on Wednesday revokedabanon therightwing Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, less than a month after it was imposed on the Islamist partybyformerPrimeMinister SheikhHasina,whowas forced to resign following massive protests against her Government. “It (lifting theban)willcome under effectimmediately,” the HomeMinistrysaidinagazette notification, noting that there was no particular evidence against the organisation. The erstwhileAwamiLeague governmentl

29 Aug, 2024

International

Bangladesh’s interim Govtlifts ban on Jamaat-e-Islami

29 Aug, 2024

International

Russia’s barrage of missiles, drones hits Ukraine

RUSSIA battered much of Ukraine on Monday, firing scores of missiles and drones that killedfourpeople, injured more than a dozen and damagedenergyfacilitiesinattacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as “vile.” Thebarrageof over 100missiles and a similar number of dronesbeganaroundmidnight and continued through daybreak in what appeared to be Russia’s biggest onslaught in weeks. Ukraine’s air force said swarmsofRussiandronesfired ateastern,northern,southern, and central regions were followed by v

28 Aug, 2024

International

Russia’s barrage of missiles, drones hits Ukraine

28 Aug, 2024

International

Telegram founder faces up to20 yrs in prison if convicted

RUSSIAN-BORN Pavel Durov, founder and owner of popular encrypted messaging appTelegram,hasbeen arrested in France over several charges related to his platform, and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. According to multiple reports, he was arrested on several charges which involved alleged spread ofcriminalactivityonTelegram which has about 900 million active users.

26 Aug, 2024

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Telegram founder faces up to20 yrs in prison if convicted

26 Aug, 2024

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National AUG. 31, 2024

Over 35% of 3,885 doctors, mostly women, feel unsafe during night shifts: IMA study

AN IMA study has revealed that one-third of its respondent doctors, majority of them being women, felt unsafe” or “very unsafe” during their night shifts, so much so that some even felt the need to start carrying weapons for self-defence. A duty room was not available to 45 per cent of respondents during night shifts, found the online survey undertaken by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to evaluate safety concerns during night shifts among doctors in the backdrop of recent alleged rape and murder of a

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National AUG. 30, 2024

Women’s safety at workplace enhanced WCD Ministry launches SHe-Box portal

UNION Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi on Thursday launched a centralised platform designed to make workplaces safer for women by addressing and managing complaints of sexual harassment. The SHe-Box portal is a significant advancement in the Government’s ongoing efforts to safeguard women in the workplace, the ministry said in a statement.

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National AUG. 29, 2024

Govt to soon launch scheme totrain adolescent girls for jobs

THE Government will soon launch a scheme to train 14- 18 years old girls in non-traditional job roles, a move aimed at increasing women’s participation in the labour force, a topofficial saidonWednesday. The pilot of the scheme will be launched in the next 2-3 weeks, SecretaryinMinistry of Women and Child Development Anil Malik said.The scheme, which is being launched in 27 districts in the pilot phase, will eventually be expanded to cover 218 districts across the country,he said. A non-traditional career i

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