The Haryana government on Wednesday announced a 10 per cent reservation for Agniveers in certain government jobs. Chief minister Nayab Saini said the state government will provide 10 percent horizontal (lateral) reservation to Agniveers in Haryana in direct recruitment to the posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden and SPO.Announcing the quota, the…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal unit of the BJP has announced that they will not follow the party’s ideal of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ any more as they did not need any “minority morcha” in the state. This despite the fact that the idea of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ has been the cornerstone of Prime…
NEW DELHI: In poll bound Maharashtra, several leaders and corporators from the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Pimpri Chinchwad have joined Sharad Pawar-led NCP-SCP faction at his residence in Pune on Wednesday.NCP’s Pimpri-Chinchwad unit chief, Ajit Gavhane, is among the leaders who joined the Sharad Pawar-led NCP-SCP in Pune. Additionally, three senior leaders…
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…
