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BIHAR WATER Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Wednesday disputed figures reported by the Centre on the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) dashboard, saying only 8.44 lakh tap water connections have been provided in Bihar under the central scheme…

SUPREME COURT on Wednesday issued notice on a plea to quash the July 27 notification of the West Bengal government setting up a two-member panel to inquire into allegations of use of Pegasus spyware for illegal surveillance. A bench of…

Chiefs of the Indian and Australian navies on Wednesday signed a guidance document to streamline interaction between the two forces at various levels. The Navy said in a statement that the signing ceremony for the ‘Joint Guidance for the…

India and Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of disaster management, resilience and mitigation, the government said on Wednesday. “The MoU seeks to put in place a system, whereby both…

Keeping in mind the Assembly elections, which are less than a year to go, the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday presented a supplementary budget of Rs 7,301.52 crore to meet its additional expenditure in the current fiscal with a…

New Delhi, Aug 18 (UNI) Core group of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) expressed serious concerns over the slow pace of reforms in the criminal justice system to ensure speedy justice during a meeting held on Wednesday. The…

Kakinada, Aug 18 (UNI) The Kakinada sub divisional police, acting on intelligence inputs received from the SP Ravindranath Babu, on Wednesday intercepted a lorry loaded with coconuts near Thatiparty Morta Bus shelter on the national highway…

Chandigarh, Aug 17 (UNI) Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday announced he would undertake a hundred day yatra across hundred constituencies starting from tomorrow from Zira to expose the corrupt and scam…

New Delhi, Aug 17 (UNI) Trinamool Congress said on Tuesday it has implemented a 'one person, one post' policy, and party founder Mamata Banerjee is the only exception to it. "One person, one post has been implemented by TMC in every…

Dehradun, Aug 17 (UNI) Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP), national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday announced the launch of election campaign for Uttarakhand Assembly polls and announced Colonel Ajay Kothiyal as the CM…

New Delhi, Aug 17 (UNI) With Kabul being taken over by the Taliban, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday chaired a high-level meeting to review the situation. A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security was held at the Prime…

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday appointed his close associate and Jalandhar Cantt MLA Pargat Singh as PPCC general secretary (organisation). “With the approval of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, AICC general…

THE SUPREME Court on Monday quizzed the government over the enactment of a new law dealing with the tenure and criteria for selection of members of tribunals despite the court striking down some provisions dealing with the same in an…

The Congress on Monday said that the Modi government should “wake up from its slumber” and protect Indians in strife-torn Afghanistan. Describing the situation in Afghanistan as “extremely alarming” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep…

The Uttar Pradesh Law Commission on Monday submitted the Uttar Pradesh Population (Control, Stabilization and Welfare) Draft Bill to the Chief Minister’s Office for consideration and further action. The draft Bill aims to bring down the…

Jammu, Aug 16 (UNI) A day after Director General Border Security Force, SS Deswal had said that drone threat is a new challenge, flying objects were spotted at three different locations on Monday evening in the bordering Samba district of…

New Delhi/Kabul, Aug 16 (UNI) The Ministry of External Affairs on Monday set up a Special Afghanistan Cell to coordinate repatriation and other requests from Afghanistan, with hundreds of people trying to leave the country following the…

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Sunday welcomed party chief Sonia Gandhi’s initiative of bringing like-minded political parties together, but urged her to strengthen her own party, saying no Opposition unity is possible without it.…

Punjab ‘Dalit welfare law soon’ Amritsar: Months before Assembly polls, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh announced that a law will be enacted soon to ensure budgetary spending on the welfare of Dalits in proportion to their population.…

Panaji, Aug 15 (UNI) Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Goa unit President Jose Philip D’Souza has said that the residents of Sao Jacinto island prevented the Navy officials from hoisting the national flag on Friday as there was fear and…