Representative Image (PTI) New Delhi: Daily wage earners will account for 31 per cent of all suicide deaths by 2024, the highest proportion in a decade (2015-2024), according to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). A total of 52,910 daily wage workers committed suicide throughout the year, a sharp increase from … Read more
HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI Amid global energy supply disruptions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged people to use public transport and resume working from home to reduce dependence on petrol and diesel, mainly from imported crude oil, and save foreign exchange by avoiding overseas weddings and vacations and unnecessary gold purchases.The recommendations, seen as the toughest … Read more
New Delhi: bjpThe BJP’s overwhelming victory in a series of assembly polls and its first win in West Bengal with more than two-thirds of seats, coupled with its rising support in the Union House, will all but allow the party to decide the terms of next year’s presidential election after losing its majority in the … Read more
New Delhi: The two Indian crew members on board the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius are healthy and asymptomatic after the ship anchored off Spain’s Canary Islands amid a hantavirus scare, the Indian Embassy in Madrid said on Sunday.The ship arrived in Spain with about 150 people on board, and the International Center for Health Monitoring said … Read more
The two Indian crew members aboard the hantavirus-hit Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius are “healthy and asymptomatic” and have been evacuated to the Netherlands for quarantine as per health safety protocols, the Indian Embassy in Spain said on Sunday. The Dutch-flagged ship, carrying about 150 people, including two Indian citizens, arrived in Spain after anchoring … Read more
NEW DELHI: India and the United Arab Emirates are working on a deal that will facilitate the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Indian workers through Fujairah port, with the agreement likely to be signed during a stopover in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s itinerary, marking yet another important link in an already strong bilateral relationship.The … Read more
KOLKATA: A surge in saffron in the Bengal assembly elections saw the BJP elected for the first time in the state and the party leading in 102 of the 144 Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) wards, raising speculations about how long the Trinamool Congress can retain the civic body.The tenure of the current KMC board, which … Read more
The staff and teachers of Raksha Anusandhan School (RAV) in Dehradun are opposed to the transfer of its management from DRES to DAV Academy Trust and Management Society. The change, which affects a school partially funded by the DRDO, has raised concerns about potential negative changes in the salary structure of employees. DRDO clarified that … Read more
UP cabinet expanded: Bhupendra Chaudhary, Manoj Pandey sworn in as ministers in Yogi government Government of Uttar Pradesh led by Chief Minister Yogi AdityanathThe Cabinet on Sunday was expanded with the appointment of several new ministers and strengthening the administrative team at Lucknow’s Jan Bhavan ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections.Former Uttar Pradesh BJP chief … Read more
Ramesh Chennithala and PM Modi New Delhi: Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala on Sunday took a jibe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modiwho said he seemed to have “lost his memory” after the BJP leadership took nearly 50 days to announce the chief minister in Delhi, has now criticized the Congress party for delaying the selection … Read more