Tag: Official

ISLAMABAD, Mar 31:  Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has banned the use of red carpets at Government events, reserving them exclusively for diplomatic receptions, as part of austerity measures to cut down unnecessary expenditures in the cash-strapped nation.  Sharif expressed annoyance over the use of red carpets during the ...

First gave up salary, now red carpet! Let us tell you that earlier Shahbaz Sharif had also directed his ministers and cabinet members to give up their salaries and allowances. So that the wasteful expenditure of Pakistani government can be stopped. After which many ministers including the President of ...

Source link www.rferl.org Dozens of people gathered on March 28 on a plaza in Washington on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia and demanded his release.The event sponsored by the National Press Club marked one full year ...

A top official at India’s National Disaster Management Authority has been appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as his special representative for disaster risk reduction.Kamal Kishore (55) has been appointed as assistant secretary-general and special representative of the secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster ...

Jammu Tawi, Mar 27: The government on Wednesday ordered Administrative Departments, HoDs, Deputy Commissioners, Managing Directors of various PSUS, Boards and Corporations etc to ensure security audit of their departmental websites/applications through CERT-In empanelled agencies within a period of one month. In a circular, the government said that the ...

West Bengal has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of Centre’s collateral-free easy loan facility with over two million micro, small and medium enterprises of the states availing the Emergency Line Credit Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS), 17.65% of the total 11.4 million recipients across the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ...

Ajay Sharma Reasi, March 22 Despite slogan of ‘no corruption' by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi and Lieutenant Governor, Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, ‘illegal' mining activities have been flourishing reportedly unchecked in Pouni tehsil of Reasi district, raising serious questions about the responsible authorities. Local sources ...

Washington: The United States recognises Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory and strongly opposes any unilateral attempts by China to advance its territorial claims across the Line of Actual Control, a senior Biden administration official has said, days after the Chinese military reiterated its claim over the state following Prime ...

STOCKTON  —  As the polls closed in California on Super Tuesday, Jim Hicks stood watch in the parking lot of a community center while election officials wearing red vests retrieved ballots from a drop-off box.He jiggled the handle of the metal container when they were done to ensure it ...

Jammu, March 13: In keeping with the directions of the Election Commission, Jammu and Kashmir's election department will procure GPS-enabled tracking systems for 12,500 poll duty vehicles for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the Union Territory.J-K Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Pandurang K Pole has issued a request for proposal ...