NEW DELHI: Nearly 51% of the applications received under PM CARES fund for children scheme benefitting Covid orphans was rejected, according to official data. In the three years of its launch, only 49% of the applications have been accepted. Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh received highest number of applications among the states, with 1,553, 1,511,…
NEW DELHI: Bihar’s Hajipur is gaining recognition for producing safety shoes for the Russian army and designer shoes for European markets. Competence Exports, a private limited company based in Hajipur, has been manufacturing these shoes since 2018 with the primary goal of creating local employment opportunities.Last year, the company exported 1.5 million pairs of shoes,…
The team has been instructed to submit its findings within a week BAGESHWAR: Uttarakhand govt on Tuesday formed an investigative panel to probe the unauthorised construction of a temple by a self-styled godman on govt land near Devi Kund on the Sunderdhunga glacier at an altitude of 16,500 feet. Baba Yogi Chaitanya Akash, who built…
CHENNAI: We believe that police firing against anti-Sterlite protesters in 2018, wherein 13 persons were killed, was a predetermined act carried out at the behest of an industrialist,” the Madras HC said Monday, adding “one particular industrialist… wanted to teach the protesters a lesson and the authorities facilitated it.”HC directed Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Vigilance…
AGARTALA: A fresh incident of arson, allegedly carried out by a group of displaced Bru tribe from Mizoram, was reported in Gandatwisa sub-division of Tripura‘s Dhalai district early Tuesday. Homeless families living in nearby shelters claimed two shops were set on fire. Police had to resort to lathicharge to disperse the crowd, resulting in injuries…
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Commission of Railway Safety (CRS), in its provisional findings in the Kanchanjunga Express accident that claimed 10 lives, has pointed to wrong authority letters issued to loco pilots on how to negotiate defective signals and lapses at “multiple levels” in train operations following failure of automatic signals.In its report to the Railway Board,…
LUCKNOW: Deoria district in eastern Uttar Pradesh needed someone to put into practice the IIT Kanpur tagline — “Lead me from darkness to light”. In an extraordinary convergence of talent, the top four helming the backward district now are all IIT graduates. Deoria watches with hope for a brighter future.The key figures responsible for Deoria’s…
NEW DELHI: The Railway Board has constituted a multi-disciplinary committee to look into the grievances of the loco pilots and train managers (guards) raised by their unions. The panel will submit a report within a month. This comes after recent train accidents and opposition MPs, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, rasing the issues of loco…
KOLKATA: The Calcutta HC has restrained Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, newly elected Trinamool MLAs Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Hossain Sarkar, and ex-MP Kunal Ghosh from “making any defamatory or incorrect statement by way of publication and on social platforms” against governor CV Ananda Bose till August 14, when it hears the latter’s defamation suit next.Justice…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday found itself engulfed in a chaotic environ as a medley of senior advocates and lawyers appearing for various parties attempted to speak in one voice as soon as it took up a petition filed by West Bengal govt challenging a Calcutta HC order cancelling appointment of 25,000 teachers and…
