Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said he will present important issues related to the state at the 25th meeting of the central regional council, chaired by Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah in Varanasi on Tuesday.“Today, I will present important issues related to Uttarakhand in the 25th meeting of the central regional council,…
Iran has escalated its missile campaign against Israel by firing a warhead packed with cluster munitions — the first reported use of the controversial weapon in the ongoing war, according to Israeli military officials. Israeli news reports quoted the Israeli military as saying the missile’s warhead split open at an altitude of about 4 miles…
NEW DELHI: Central govt employees covered under the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) will receive retirement and death gratuity benefits similar to the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), Union minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh said Wednesday, reports Bharti Jain.The inclusion of death-cum-retirement gratuity in UPS, a long-pending demand, is expected to encourage many covered under…
PUDUCHERRY: Chief Minister N Rangasamy called on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar here on Sunday and submitted a memorandum to him seeking a 25 per cent quota of seats in all the courses available in the Central University in Puducherry for the natives of the Union Territory.Rangasamy was accompanied by Assembly Speaker R Selvam during his…
NEW DELHI: Paving the way for fast-tracking the revamp of the country’s power corridor along Kartavya Path, some ministries will be moved to new buildings — permanently and temporarily — to allow reconstruction of their old addresses such as Nirman Bhawan and Shastri Bhawan.For example the ministries of home affairs, rural development and micro, small…
A mirage appears on Kartavya Path during a hot summer afternoon, in New Delhi. (PTI) NEW DELHI: Barely days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted ministers and top bureaucrats to move to new allocated office spaces for expediting the construction of new buildings along Kartavya Path, housing and urban affairs ministry (MoHUA) will be the…
NEW DELHI: While underscoring India’s zero-tolerance policy against terrorism, external affairs minister S Jaishankar in bilateral meetings with his visiting Central Asian counterparts called for firmly countering terrorism in the region. Jaishankar had bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan ahead of the 4th India-Central Asia Dialogue that…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the launch of ‘UMEED’ Central Portal that will start the process of building a fresh database of all waqf properties, minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju has stressed that the portal in no way violates the law or the Constitution.The minister was reacting to questions regarding All India Muslim Personal Law Board‘s…
Kane Williamson of Middlesex CCC during a training session. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images) Kane Williamson has once again turned down a central contract with New Zealand Cricket (NZC), raising fresh questions about the former captain’s long-term international future. As a result, he is likely to miss New Zealand’s two-Test tour of Zimbabwe in late…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced it will pay a record dividend of Rs 2.69 lakh crore to the government for the fiscal year ended March 2025, marking a 27.4 percent increase from the Rs 2.1 lakh crore transferred in 2023-24.The dividend pay-out for 2022-23 had stood at Rs 87,416 crore.This decision…