NEW DELHI: The next phase of central assistance (seed funding) for states to take up transformative projects under the Rs 1 lakh crore Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) will focus more on revitalising core areas of cities and fixing legacy infrastructure gaps, such as bad drainage, sanitation and polluted water bodies.Officials said the focus of this…
HAZARIBAG: An on-duty traffic constable was killed while another was injured after their bike was hit by by a speeding truck while patrolling a stretch of NH-33 in Jharkhand’s Hazaribag district early Saturday.Constables Nand Kishore Thakur and Gajender Singh, were headed towards Sindoor on a police bike when it was hit from behind near a…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi VISHAKHAPATNAM: The country is emerging as a global hub for wellness under the mantra of ‘Heal in India’, with yoga playing a leading role in that effort, PM Narendra Modi said Saturday while addressing a record-breaking gathering of 3,02,087 yoga practitioners along Visakhapatnam’s beachfront.Modi highlighted yoga’s global rise and its integration…
AGRA: A Pocso court in Aligarh sentenced a man, in his late 30s, to life imprisonment for raping and physically assaulting an eight-year-old girl on Nov 16, 2020, near a brick kiln, where he worked and the survivor’s family lived. Court found Shailesh Manjhi, of Bihar’s Nalanda district, guilty under IPC sections 376 (rape), 323…
NEW DELHI: In a major policy change, the Centre is preparing a model to provide financial assistance to state govts for one-time improvement of state highways rather than declaring more of these as NHs. The road transport ministry will instead focus on building more new greenfield highways and expressways.This comes after PM Narendra Modi’s direction…
NEW DELHI: The upper castes availing the economic backwardness quota have trailed the backward classes in the Mains examinations of the Civil Services competition for the last two years. But the dynamic of competitiveness between the two reserved categories is complex, as the forwards have prevailed in the ultimate test by virtue of greater score…
Indians, who were staying in Iran, evacuated safely from war torn country Iran NEW DELHI: While 827 Indian nationals were back from Iran by Saturday evening, 800 more had approached the Indian embassy in Tehran for evacuation. The number of evacuees, in fact, was expected to exceed 1,100 with 300 more scheduled to arrive in…
MEERUT: A 39-year-old man, working as a mason in Delhi and going home to Baghpat to to visit his wife and children during the weekend, was beaten to death by a group of about 20 men. His ordeal lasted for almost 10km on a crowded general compartment of the Delhi-Saharanpur passenger train on Friday night,…
T’puram: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stressed the cultural bond between France and Kerala, stating that French literature had a deep influence on writers and politicians of the state.Speaking at the launch of the ‘Pardon My French’ bookshelf at DC Books, organised by the French Institute of India on Thursday, Tharoor said, “French culture and ideas…
Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma NEW DELHI: The judges committee inquiring into the ‘cash in kothi’ case involving Justice Yashwant Varma spotted an “unidentified person” in a check shirt near the doused and half-burnt sacks of currency in the early hours of March 15 in one of the photos taken by first responders.This…