Raja Muzaffar Bhat, president of Jammu and Kashmir RTI movement has fought a protracted battle with the management of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank seeking transparency and accountability in working and asset management by this premier financial institution of the state....
As a step towards empowerment of minorities, the government will provide 5 crore scholarships over the next five years, 50 per cent of which will be for girl students, Minorities Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Tuesday....
India may have experienced worst-ever summer this year as temperature levels in several cities in the country remained in the severe category for long periods. ...
In a major push to labour reforms, the government is all set to pare existing 44 labour laws into four and a Bill will be tabled in Parliament in the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha beginning June 17. ...
A week after National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was given an extension in service with an upgraded level of Cabinet rank, Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra and Additional Principal Secretary P.K. Mishra were on Tuesday accorded an upgrade in their level to the Cabinet Minister rank along with extension in their service c...
Congress General Secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday held a meeting here to review the reasons for the party's rout in western Uttar Pradesh in the recent Lok Sabha election....
Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala on Tuesday said on the floor of the Kerala Assembly that 149 cases were registered against various people for posting remarks against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on social media, while nothing happened to the complaints lodged by other political leaders....
Just days after assuming office for the second term, the Modi government has initiated significant steps towards modernisation of 'madrassa' education and to link it with formal education....
Shahbano's tears refuse to stop. Three days ago, the Baruraj village resident admitted her eight-year-old daughter Farida at Muzaffarpur's Shri Krishna Memorial College Hospital (SKMCH) with high fever. Her world came crashing down on Tuesday, when the doctors declared her daughter dead. ...
Centred nearly 600 km south of the Saurashtra coast in Gujarat, Cyclone Vayu is likely to make a landfall in the state on Thursday, even as teams of state and National Disaster Relief Force have been drafted in all the coastal districts, officials said on Tuesday. ...
