NEW DELHI: ‘Gender budget‘ allocation has seen a more than 37% increase in the 2025-26 Union Budget, reaching Rs 4.5 lakh crore from the Rs 3.3 lakh crore in the financial year 2024-25, according to the women and child development (WCD) ministry.The share of gender budget allocation in the total Union Budget – presented on…
NEW DELHI: In a big boost for India’s ambitious Deep Ocean Mission, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has allocated Rs 600 crore for the Samudrayaan project, under which scientists will be sent to the depths of the ocean in a specially-designed submersible to explore the ocean floor, including the country’s continental shelf and exclusive economic…
HYDERABAD The Backward classes (BC) constitute 46.25% (categories A, B, C and D) or approximately 1.64 crore of the over 3.5 crore population in Telangana, making them the largest group, according to the recent caste survey done across the state.Also, BCs among the minorities (category E) make up an additional 10.08% (35.76 lakh), taking the…
MUMBAI: Former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak visited Parsee Gymkhana at Marine Drive in Mumbai on Sunday morning to play tennis ball cricket. The landmark gymkhana, the first such community sports club to come up on the city’s coast in the late 19th century, celebrates its 140th anniversary this month.History turned a full circle as…
JAMMU: A team of experts from AIIMS Delhi on Sunday met 11 patients undergoing treatment for a mysterious illness in J&K’s Rajouri district, which has claimed 17 lives so far, and collected samples from their sealed homes and surrounding areas in Badhaal village.No new cases have been reported in the past nine days from Badhaal…
MUMBAI: Five people, including two foreign nationals, were injured after a hotel driver steering a Mercedes lost control of the vehicle and rammed into them at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai Sunday morning.Police have registered a case of rash driving against the driver and took him into custody. Some of the injured have been…
MUMBAI: Seattle-based Indian-American economist and ex-Seattle City Council’s Kshama Sawant, who faced two e-visa rejections last year and has been waiting for an emergency visa to meet her ailing mother for three weeks, has accused the Indian govt of “harassment” and is considering legal recourse. Sawant, 51, said her repeated attempts to visit her 82-year-old…
NEW DELHI: India and Russia look to intensify inter-parliamentary dialogue and cooperation with a visit to India this week by state duma (lower house of Parliament) chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. In the annual summit meeting last year in Moscow, PM Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin had underlined the importance of regular meetings of Inter-Parliamentary Commission…
An Orissa HC judge has granted bail to a man facing prosecution for alleged theft on the condition that he plant 200 saplings of local varieties such as mango, neem, and tamarind around his village in Jharsuguda district and maintain them for two years, reports Lalmohan Patnaik.Manas Ati had been in judicial custody since December…
INDORE: The anti-narcotics department on Sunday seized 1.1kg of MD (mephedrone) worth over Rs 2 crore and confiscated equipment used in its production. Two men were arrested, while a third – a former sarpanch – is on the run. SP Suraj Verma of Neemuch district’s narcotics cell said that police intercepted a motorcycle, following a…
