India
Centre Sets Up National Medical Commission, Abolishes MCI
With the NMC coming into being, the Board of Governors, which superseded the Medical Council of India on September 26, 2018, to perform its functions, will get dissolved and the nearly 64-year-old Indian Medical Council Act will stand abolished.
Four Cops Suspended After Man Hangs Self in Police Custody in UP's Ghaziabad District
tation House Officer, Vijay Nagar, Devendra Singh Bisht, Head Constable Mohar Singh, Constable Amit Kumar and sentry of the police station Harish Tiwari were suspended with immediate effect for dereliction of duty on the basis of an inquiry report, they s...
HC Stays Fresh Privilege Notices to DMK Chief Stalin, Other MLAs Over Displaying Gutka Pouches Inside TN Assembly
The Opposition MLAs, had held the gutkha packs while seeking to raise an issue of the 'availability,' of the banned products.
DJB To Employ Only One Vendor For All Works In Each Zone For 10 Years
The Delhi Jal Board on Thursday said it will divide the city into "seven or eight" zones and place each zone under one vendor for operation, maintenance and management of its water supply and sewer networks to bring efficiency and fix accountability. Th...
357 Members of Minority Communities in Afghanistan Arrived in India Since Lockdown: MEA
The MEA has been receiving requests from Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan for permission to settle down in India and such pleas have gone up since the attack on a gurdwara in Kabul in March.
Farm Bills: Punjab, Haryana Farmers To Go On Strike Tomorrow
Farmers in Punjab and Haryana will go on a strike on Friday in protest against the contentious farm bills that were passed in the Parliament. As many as 31 farmer organisations have joined hands for the 'Punjab Bandh'. Several organisations in Haryana,...
Telangana To Resume Interstate, City Bus Services From Sep 25
After a gap of over six months, the Telangana government has decided to resume bus services in the city from September 25. Inter-state bus services from Telangana to Karnataka and Maharashtra will also be restarted from Friday, an official release s...
Way Ahead is to Avoid Attempts at Unilaterally Changing Status Quo: India to China on Border Row
MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said disengagement of troops is a complex process and will require mutually agreed "reciprocal actions".
Bengaluru Riots: NIA Searches 30 Locations, Arrests 'Key Conspirator' over Violence at Police Stations
The NIA said the accused is a bank recovery agent and was part of the main conspiracy behind the riots that claimed at least three lives and injured 40 police personnel.
Youth With Psychiatric Illness Loses Way, Family Traced
A wandering 24-year old man with psychiatric illness was admitted to a government hospital here by a good samaritan and his family has been traced successfully and he is being treated, authorities said here on Thursday. The youth with a perplexed lo...
Tamil Nadu Govt Allows Schools to Reopen for Class 10-12 Students from Oct 1 on Voluntary Basis
The students must be divided into two batches and those placed in the first batch shall come to school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the second on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Cong Stages Walkout From Gujarat Assembly On Fee Waiver Issue
The Opposition Congress on Thursday demanded a fee waiver for all school and college students in Gujarat in view of the coronavirus pandemic and later staged a walkout from the Assembly over the issue. Around 40 Congress MLAs, led by Leader of Oppositio...
Sikkim CM's Son, 9 Others at His Residence Test Positive for Coronavirus
Sources said the Prem Singh Tamang and his primary contacts had been undergoing COVID-19 tests at regular intervals. Aditya, the SKM legislator from Soreng-Chakhung constituency, had attended assembly session on September 21.
Music Has Become More Free Over Years: Anoushka Shankar
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar was the first among the very few to go beyond the boundaries of Hindustani classical music to work with different music styles. His daughter, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, who has experimented with crossover music, said she...
Nainital MP Seeks Special Economic Package For Uttarakhand
Nainital BJP MP Ajay Bhatt on Thursday demanded a special economic package for Uttarakhand from the Centre for creating basic health and educational facilities in border areas. Bhatt, who raised the issue in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, said of 16,793 vil...
Will Request Union Environment Minister To Implement PUSA Tech To Manage Stubble: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said he would meet Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and request him to direct neighbouring states to implement a low-cost technology developed by Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa h...