India lose against USA in Women’s 3-Nation U-23 football tournament

NEW DELHI: The Indian women’s football team suffered a 1-4 defeat against the USA in its last match of the three-Nation U-23 tournament at Helsingborg in Sweden on Saturday. India created a flurry of chances and took the lead in the eighth minute through Pyari Xaxa, but the Americans picked up steam as the match […]

Govt releases revised swachh certification protocol

Govt releases revised swachh certification protocol

New Delhi: The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has released a revised cleanliness certification protocol with the aim to sustain open defecation free status across urban India and move towards achieving new sanitation goals, according to a statement on Saturday. According to the ministry, seven years since the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission […]

Govt implementing disaster mitigation project to reduce sufferings in cyclone-hit states: Shah

Govt implementing disaster mitigation project to reduce sufferings in cyclone-hit states: Shah

Kevadiya (Guj): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the Modi government is implementing the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) in eight coastal states with an outlay of over Rs 4,900 crore to reduce the sufferings caused to the coastal community by cyclones and other calamities. Addressing a meeting here of the Parliamentary […]

Brainstorming Workshop held on National Air Quality Resource Framework of India

Brainstorming Workshop held on National Air Quality Resource Framework of India

New Delhi: Prof. Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to Govt. of India, inaugurated a Brainstorming Workshop on 22nd June 2022 at India International Centre, New Delhi to kick start an ambitious National Mission on “National Air Quality Resource Framework of India (NARFI)” developed by the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru with the […]

MEA met increased demand for passport services with monthly average of 9 lakh: Jaishankar

MEA met increased demand for passport services with monthly average of 9 lakh: Jaishankar

New Delhi: The External Affairs Ministry rose to the occasion to meet the increased demand for passport services built up due to two-and-half-years of the Covid pandemic, and recorded an impressive monthly average of 9 lakh, Union minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. In his message on the occasion of Passport Seva Divas, the external […]

Development works should not be hampered by political crisis: Thackeray tells bureaucrats

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday told the state administration that important development works related to welfare of people shouldn’t be held up due to the ongoing political crisis in the state. The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition plunged into crisis on Tuesday last when a group of Shiv Sena MLAs, led […]

WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergency, scientists allege double standard

WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergency, scientists allege double standard

LONDON: As the World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiralling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency, some experts say WHO’s decision to act only after the disease spilled into the West could entrench the grotesque inequities that arose between rich and poor countries during the coronavirus […]

ED asks Sonia Gandhi to depose late July

ED asks Sonia Gandhi to depose late July

New Delhi: Accepting a request for postponing questioning in the National Herald money-laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to record her statement with the agency in the last week of July, officials said on Thursday. The 75-year-old Congress president, who was supposed to depose before the agency on Thursday, wrote […]

PM inaugurates ‘Vanijya Bhawan’ and launches NIRYAT portal

PM inaugurates ‘Vanijya Bhawan’ and launches NIRYAT portal

New Delhi; The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘Vanijya Bhawan’ and launched the NIRYAT portal in Delhi today. Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Som Prakash and Smt Anupriya Patel were among those present on the occasion. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said today another important step has been taken in the direction of the journey […]

Unitech promoter brothers used homebuyers’ money to bribe Tihar jail officials: ED

New Delhi: “Misappropriated” funds of homebuyers were used by the promoter brothers of realty group Unitech to “bribe” Tihar jail officials during their confinement there, the ED said on Thursday as it attached assets worth Rs 257 crore in a money-laundering case against them. “The provisionally attached properties include residential, commercial units, land parcels in […]