BJP struggles ahead of Rajasthan byelections

Jaipur: Following the results of the recent...

Ex Justice calls for comprehensive climate law

New Delhi: Retired Supreme Court Justice Hima...

FCI enhances its storage and transportation infrastructure

New Delhi: The Food Corporation of India...

Kundan Jha

Rail coaches turned isolation wards lie vacant

New Delhi: The Indian Railways first converted hundreds of rail coaches to make 5,150 isolation wards for Covid-19 patients and then left all of...

‘Dip in patients availing hospital emergency, OPD services’

Newe Delhi: Amid the Covid-19 crisis, the healthcare sector across the country has registered a low footfall of patients rushing for emergency facilities and...

Education sector waits for long-delayed reforms

New Delhi: The education sector is waiting to see reforms similar to those the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre has so far introduced in...

Goyal seeks mechanism for proper use of PM’s economic package

Commerce and Industry Minister directs officials to come up with such a mechanism.    New Delhi: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry headed by Piyush Goyal...

Yogi’s skill-mapping drive focuses on giving jobs to labourers returning home

New Delhi: After taking the lead in unleashing major labour reforms, the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has initiated a marathon “skill mapping” drive,...

PM’s privatisation drive to gather pace post lockdown

New Delhi: After winning a second consecutive term last year, PM Modi had promised rapid economic development to make India a $5 trillion economy,...

Bharat Biotech working on Covid-19 vaccine

New Delhi: Bharat Biotech, a country-based private firm, is aggressively working to develop and test a vaccine for Covid-19 and, in this regard, the...

‘India needs to bridge increasing digital divide’

New Delhi: India needs to bridge its digital divide now more than ever, as the exponential spread of Covid-19 has generated unrivalled disruption and...

‘Western media biased on India’s handling of Covid-19’ crisis

New Delhi:Despite struggling to control the Covid-19 outbreak in their own countries, an analysis of western media reports on India’s handling of the Covid-19...

More states set to implement labour reforms

More states, including Congress-led Punjab and Rajasthan, are gearing up to follow the labour reform initiative kicked off by three BJP-led states—Madhya Pradesh, Uttar...

States stare at crash in revenue collection

Output data suggests that eight core sectors contracted by 6.5% in March.   The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the destruction of the world economy and...

MHRD seeks details of research projects to take on COVID-19

As per ministry officials, the Covid-19 crisis has ‘compelled us to stress on the need for innovation and research’.   The Ministry of Human Resource Development...

Cops probing students’ ‘role’ in Delhi violence

New Delhi: The Delhi Police’s Special Cell is investigating the possible role of eight student leaders of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), Delhi University (DU) and...

Discrepancy in virus outbreak count

‘There is no synchronisation in data presented by different institutions on their dashboards’. New Delhi: Data discrepancy on count (including deaths) in Covid-19 cases in...

‘Ayurveda needs a relook amid Covid-19 crisis’

‘Ayurveda can boost immunity so the body can fight in case the virus attacks you’. While most countries, including the developed and developing, have been...

NaMo campaign group offers graduate leadership course

New Delhi: The “Nation with NaMo”—a non-profit organisation which came into existence in 2018 to back Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha poll campaign—now...

Farmers face problems in harvesting rabi crops

New Delhi: Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stress on efforts to complete rabi crop harvesting, the shortage of labour and machinery due to the lockdown...

‘Congress, TMC MPs didn’t spend MPLADS fully’

New Delhi: Recently, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government decided to suspend the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) funds for...

Opposition leaders support PM’s lockdown extension

New Delhi: Opposition leaders from across the country have so far supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s clamping of a nationwide lockdown and its extension...

‘India using innovation as arsenal to fight coronavirus’

Two weeks ago, Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US scientist tackling the Covid-19 outbreak, had said: “Showstopper to halt the global coronavirus disruption will...

ICMR exploring ways to scale up tests

New Delhi: Shifting from its earlier strategy of less number of tests, India is gearing up to conduct mass Covid-19 tests. So far, the country...

World Bank to help India ready virus combat plan

Four-year strategy aims to respond and mitigate the threat from coronavirus. New Delhi: The Indian government has proposed a long-term Covid-19 combat strategy called the Stakeholder...

‘WHO blocking reforms to meet global health challenges’

NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing criticism for not allowing reforms that could enable the planet’s premier health agency to respond...

DU blames Delhi government of releasing inadequate funds

New Delhi: Amidst the outbreak of coronavirus, thousands of teachers and helping staff of the Delhi University’s 12 colleges that are fully funded by...

Domestic virus test kits await ICMR nod for mass use

It is expected that ICMR will ensure that India becomes a global hub for making low-cost test kits. New Delhi: The prestigious Indian Council of...

Beijing on an overdrive to save virus-hit ‘Brand China’

New Delhi: While over 200 countries worldwide are battling to win the war against the “Wuhan virus” (the taxonomy wing of the WHO has...

Slow property rights transfer in Delhi’s illegal colonies

New Delhi: The process of granting ownership rights in Delhi’s unauthorised colonies is running at a snail’s pace as the Delhi Development Authority (DDA)...

‘Delhi govt needs to take steps to protect homeless from virus’

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-led Delhi government needs to take measures to protect thousands of its homeless citizens from contracting the deadly coronavirus....

Haryana factory makes staff work using ‘loophole’

New Delhi: Although factory workers are prone to contract coronavirus due to co-working in the proximity of others, the notice issued by the Haryana...

Hindus worried as Bangladesh witnesses ripple effects of Delhi riots

New Delhi: Far from the Indian capital, the ripple effects of the recent Delhi riots are being felt in Bangladesh. While the situation in...

Delhi braves virus, but GTB director on Goa trip

New Delhi: With one death, Delhi is on the brink of facing a coronavirus outbreak, but for Sunil Kumar, the Director of Guru Teg...

Salaries stuck as tiff over DU governing bodies escalates

New Delhi: The tussle between the Aam Aadmi Party-led Delhi government and the Delhi University administration over formation of governing bodies in 12 DU-affiliated...

Bihar sees Plurals’ launch before polls

Akash Mehta, CEO and global spokesperson of the party Plurals, has his roots in the BJP.   New Delhi: Akash Mehta, the CEO and global spokesperson...

Police probing possible involvement of terror module in Delhi riots

NEW DELHI: The Special Investigating Team (SIT) of the Delhi Police has not ruled out the possibility of the involvement of a terror module...

IoE tag will let DU get foreign faculty, build infra

New Delhi: The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) sent by Delhi University (DU) to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) for getting the Institution...

Corpses rot in GTB hospital, ‘apathy’ delays postmortems

New Delhi: Following riots in northeast Delhi, as many as 39 bodies are piled up and are rotting in East Delhi’s Guru Teg Bahadur...

It was almost 1984 redux, says Shahdara

New Delhi: The horror of communal clashes witnessed for two days from Sunday by some residents in lower-middle-class colonies in trans-Yamuna’s Shahdara district (geographical...

‘Developed’ India will lose benefits from ‘developing’ tag

NEW DELHI: Recently, the United States had classified India as a “developed country” and the new classification is being floated on social media as...

Tag would open new opportunities for DU

NEW DELHI: Last week, the Delhi University submitted its proposal to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to get the letter of intent...

Learn from Smriti, defeated BJP candidates told

NEW DELHI: After witnessing a rout in Delhi’s Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s central leadership has directed all candidates who couldn’t win their...

Shaheen Bagh protesters will march to MHA

‘The sole idea of our peaceful protest is to get CAA scrapped’. New Delhi: Agitators protesting against the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at Shaheen Bagh...

Railway board likely to conduct exams in April

New Delhi: The long wait for over two crore applicants of Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Non-Technical Popular Categories (NTPC) group-D posts is soon going...

Slump continues in mid, luxury housing segments

Centre, state governments have been paying attention to housing for the poor. New Delhi: Developers and real estate experts feel that Budget 2020 is...

Budget cut for Delhi’s Central hospitals may hit treatment of poor

NEW DELHI: Central government hospitals, including Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Lady Hardinge Hospital, besides others, have witnessed a budget cut...

Ad-hoc teachers’ protest enters third month

NEW DELHI: The sit-in protest demanding the absorption and regularisation of the existing ad hoc teachers in Delhi University (DU) has entered the third...

Steps to restrict steel imports from China

Centre has made it mandatory for traders to register with the Steel Import Monitoring System. London: In order to restrict imports of finished steel products from...

‘Sharjeel’s students’ group started Shawheen Bagh stir’

New Delhi: Sharjeel Imam’s pursuit of radical Islam and his ambition to trigger a nationwide stir based on Muslim identity politics brought him to...

Politics over Shaheen Bagh protests may help BJP

‘AAP’s campaign focused on development may not translate into electoral success’. New Delhi: The changing politics over anti-CAA protests, especially those at Shaheen Bagh, seems to...

India, Indonesia negotiating economic cooperation agreement

NEW DELHI: India and Indonesia are set to launch negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) to cover economic cooperation while trading in...

Stricter norms for availing IGST refunds soon

Nearly 6,000 errant exporters have been identified and fraudulent claims may be to the tune of Rs 16,000 crore.   NEW DELHI: In order to curb...

- A word from our sponsors -

spot_img

Follow us