Jairam Ramesh takes jibe at Centre over MDR on UPI NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday stepped up its attack against the Centre and accused it of “giving into” United States’ demand to get rid of zero MDR and charge for UPI.In a social media post on X, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh dubbed the government’s…
India’s huge burden of dog bites, uneven implementation of dog vaccination and population management programmes, and gaps in surveillance have been cited as key challenges in meeting its 2030 rabies elimination target. (Photo: IANS) NEW DELHI: While Chile and Bhutan have recently demonstrated that dog-mediated human rabies can be eliminated as a public health threat,…
NEW DELHI: Suspected militants attacked a hill village in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on Tuesday night and burnt down at least two houses, while security forces engaged them in an exchange of fireAccording to officials, large number of militants armed with sophisticated weapons attacked Chawangkining Naga village around 10.30pm, hours after two Kuki women were shot…
Drug regulator alerts on unauthorised Pakistani whitening creams sale in India. (Photo: ANI) NEW DELHI: The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has warned consumers against using two imported cosmetic creams after testing found them to be unauthorised for sale in India and containing excessive levels of heavy metals that may pose health risks.The cosmetics…
PM Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi raised Indian concerns in ties with China with President Xi Jinping when the two met last week on the sidelines of the Brics summit, saying both sides need to show sensitivity to each other’s core concerns, according to the Indian government.The MEA assertion…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay’s public event outside London’s iconic Shard skyscraper after the Metropolitan Police raised concerns over crowd safety.Hundreds of fans had gathered at the venue, with several waiting for hours to see the actor-turned-politician. Vijay’s team announced the cancellation over a loudspeaker, citing the lack of police permission…
NEW DELHI: IPS officer Sanjukta Parashar, called the ‘Iron Lady of Assam’, has become the first woman officer to lead CRPF’s jungle warfare commando unit, CoBRA.Parashar, a 2006-batch officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, earned the moniker of Iron Lady after leading the crackdown against militant outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland in 2013-14 as the…
NEW DELHI: A single bad day should not decide a student’s future – and a poorly equipped examination centre should not ruin it. These concerns feature in thousands of suggestions received by the high-powered task force set up to overhaul India’s examination system.The panel, led by Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, has been consulting stakeholders ahead…
MUMBAI: The Foundation for Aviation Safety (FAS), a US aviation safety group, has written to India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), questioning why it has not issued interim safety recommendations for the Boeing 787 fleet, despite holding evidence of chronic system failures on the aircraft involved in last year’s Ahmedabad crash, which killed 260 people.Over…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate will start a drive against fraud under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, including cases of alleged collusive resolutions involving disproportionately large haircuts which helped defaulting promoters re-acquire assets.In a direction to zonal offices during a three-day high-level meeting of the agency’s special directors in Bengaluru, ED director Rahul Navin asked them to…