NEW DELHI: Government will increase the reward amount for Good Samaritans who rush road accident victims to hospitals for immediate medical care to Rs 25,000, five times more than the present reward of Rs 5,000, Union minister Nitin Gadkari said on Saturday.In a televised conversation with actor Anupam Kher on road safety, Gadkari said he…
NEW DELHI: India has joined UN committee of experts on big data and data science for official statistics, an entity that was created to further investigate benefits and challenges of big data, including potential for monitoring and reporting on sustainable development goals.Inclusion in this expert committee comes at a crucial time, as India recently assumed…
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday reiterated that it was the responsibility of Congress to save the India alliance, which was formed by opposition parties before Lok Sabha polls to take on BJP. He said no meeting was held since LS polls and that the alliance had no convenor.Raut’s comments on India…
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NEW DELHI: Seven per cent of India’s population uses narcotics, Union home minister Amit Shah informed on Saturday, as he candidly lay out the challenges before the drug enforcement agencies and society and asserted his government’s resolve to quell the menace.“7 per cent people in India use drugs illegally. Drug abuse is a cancer that…
VADODARA: For 16-year-old Mayur Chauhan, Uttarayan is more than just a celebration – it is a tradition inalienable with kite flying. He and his friends used to begin preparations at least 10 days before Jan 14, and by the festival’s peak, the skies above his native village Luna, 20 km from Vadodara, would be a…
UMRANGSO: Rescuers retrieved on Saturday the bodies of three more miners from the flooded rat-hole coal mine in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, raising the toll to four. The body of 38-year-old Ganga Bahadur Shrestha from Nepal was pulled out on Wednesday. The mine, located in 3 Kilo area of Umrangso, flooded Monday morning due to…
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto NEW DELHI: Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is unlikely to travel straight to Pakistan after participating in Republic Day celebrations, official sources said Saturday following hectic diplomatic efforts by India to convince Jakarta to not club his India visit with his proposed official travel to Islamabad.India had last year invited Subianto as…
IMPHAL: A temporary camp of Assam Rifles was set ablaze in Hongbei village of Manipur’s Kamjong district Saturday during protests over what residents described as “continuous frisking” and harassment along Imphal-Myanmar road. The paramilitary force conducts counter-insurgency operations in the Northeast and guards the India-Myanmar border.The situation escalated when AR personnel allegedly stopped the transport…
<p>The report talks about pricing of liquor left at the discretion of manufacturer and wholesalers instead of government.<br></p> NEW DELHI: A CAG report, evaluating performance of Delhi government’s regulation and supply of liquor in the national capital between 2017-18 and 2020-21, has observed several irregularities in excise policy and its implementation, similar to the findings…
