Daily Archives: July 26, 2023
Despite ‘Beti Bachao’ plan, 13 states see dip in gender ratio
NEW DELHI: The Centre’s flagship programme ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ appears to have failed its purpose a majority of the states and...
Supreme Court raps Centre: At drop of hat, you take stand against non-BJP states
NEW DELHI: As Nagaland failed to implement one-third reservation for women in the civic body elections, the Supreme Court on Tuesday rapped...
2 cloudbursts in Kullu damage houses, wash away bridges, roads
KULLU: Cloudbursts at two places wreaked havoc in Kullu district this morning. There was, however, no loss of human life or livestock....
PM Modi pays tributes to fallen soldiers on Kargil Vijay Diwas
NEW DELHI: On the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid tributes to soldiers who made the...
Non-basmati white rice: IMF ‘encourages’ India to remove export restrictions
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund has said it would "encourage" India to remove restrictions on export of a certain category of rice,...
Cong moves no-confidence motion against government in LS on ‘governance failures’ in Manipur
The Congress moved a motion of no confidence against the government in Lok Sabha on Wednesday on the issue of “governance failures...
Punjab floods: 41 killed, over 1,600 people living in relief camps
CHANDIGARH: Forty-one people were killed and 1,616 are living in 173 relief camps following the floods that hit Punjab recently, officials said.
4 killed as truck hits car in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh
JHAJJAR: Four people, including two children, died as their car was hit by a truck on the KMP Expressway near Bahadurgarh town.
ED, CBI, IT only 3 strong parties in NDA, claims Uddhav Thackeray
MUMBAI: Taking a dig at the BJP, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has claimed that the Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax department...
Indian woman weds Pak FB friend after conversion
PESHAWAR: Anju, the Indian mother of two children who travelled to a remote village in Pakistan, married her Facebook (FB) friend after...