The Calcutta High Court ruled that teachers deputed for census work would be considered to be on school duty and cannot refuse the assignment, as the exercise is in the national interest.
Read More
Nepal’s Energy Minister Biraj Bhakta Shrestha stressed the need for preparedness in water, food, irrigation and disaster resilience sectors.
Read More
The Central Drugs Laboratories have found 40 drug samples manufactured by various firms to be “not of standard quality” (NSQ) in their monthly drug alert for July, health ministry officials said.
Read More
Tamil Nadu Law, Courts and Prisons Minister C T R Nirmal Kumar announced measures to expedite judicial proceedings and strengthen court infrastructure across the state.
Read More
Delhi has reported 2,392 influenza-A cases, including 1,777 H1N1 infections, so far this year, Health Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh said.
Read More
Domestic air passenger traffic declined 4.80 per cent year-on-year to 1.20 crore in July, compared with 1.26 crore in the same month last year, according to DGCA data released on Thursday.
Read More
Sajjan Kumar, the former Congress leader and three-time Lok Sabha member who remained a controversial figure over his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Read More
Odisha Vigilance officials on Thursday caught the Lathikata tahasildar-cum-sub-registrar of Sundergarh district with Rs 5 lakh in suspected ill-gotten cash.
Read More
The Himachal Pradesh government on Thursday prohibited the sale, purchase, storage and supply of non-dairy or analogue paneer that does not comply with the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
Read More
Around 1,500 km of new-line, doubling and tripling railway projects worth Rs 24,210 crore are currently underway in the South Central Railway (SCR) zone, General Manager Sanjay Kumar Srivastava said on Thursday.
Read More