NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Thursday doubled down on India’s efforts to ensure the safety and security of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, emphasising in his Independence Day address 140 crore countrymen were worried about them and other minorities in the neighbouring country, and expressed hope the situation there would normalise soon.Amid unending concerns over…
BHUBANESWAR: Woman employees in govt and private sectors in Odisha will get a day’s paid period leave, deputy CM Pravati Parida announced Thursday in Cuttack after an I-Day event. “The leave will be optional and can be taken on either the first or second day of the menstrual cycle, depending on the woman’s preference,” said…
Reclaim the night‘, the protest call, became a mass movement across India on Independence Day eve on Wednesday as it reverberated in numerous cities as doctors, other professionals and general public gathered to raise their voice against the rape and murder of the on-duty 31-year-old PGT doctor inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH)…
KOLKATA: Bengal braced for a tense Friday with a shutdown-like scenario as CM Mamata Banerjee‘s Trinamool Congress and opposition parties BJP and CPM announced separate protests focused on RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where the rape and murder of a postgraduate resident doctor on Aug 9 has triggered national outrage.BJP and CPM condemned the…
KOLKATA: Vandals armed with sticks, shafts, bottles and bricks usurped the night Kolkata sought to reclaim Wednesday, storming RG Kar Medical College past midnight and unleashing 40 minutes of mayhem that didn’t spare even critical care units and left doctors and nurses pulverised soon after spontaneous street protests against a 31-year-old PG student’s rape-murder.Ten suspects…
DEHRADUN: Captain Deepak Singh, 25, who was killed in action during an encounter with terrorists in J&K’s Doda on Wednesday, had lied to his mother on what would be his last phone call to her, telling her that he was off to his unit’s base to “rest”. In reality, he was readying for a deadly…
MUMBAI: The cash-strapped government on Thursday sanctioned a sum of Rs 199.8 crores for a media plan to publicise its flagship Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana which will provide a stipend of Rs 1500 per month for underprivileged women.It has also sanctioned a sum of Rs 4.7 crores for a media plan to publicise…
MUMBAI: The Pilot project prepared under the Maharashtra Rights to Public Services Act- 2015 will ensure that various services of the government are taken to the citizens. Such a pilot project will also be implemented in other districts of the state, said chief minister Mr. Eknath Shinde here, today.The chief minister on Thursday inaugurated the…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association on Thursday declared a nationwide strike on August 17 after the alleged rape and murder of a women in Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical Collage and Hospital.According to the doctors’ body statement, medical services will be withdrawn from 6 am on Saturday to 6 am Sunday. While all essential services…
NEW DELHI: The Army’s canine soldiers continue to play a stellar role in detecting explosives and tracking terrorists during counter-terror operations. A six-year-old female Labrador named Kent has been posthumously honoured in the list of gallantry awards on Independence Day.The golden-coloured Kent, a special tracker dog with Army number 08B2, laid down her life while…
