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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that opposition parties are trying to save the corrupt and reiterated that his promises were a “guarantee of completion” as he toured Bihar and West Bengal for the second time in four days as part of an eastern push ahead of the ...

Facing an uphill battle in the Lok Sabha elections and struggling to win back voter confidence, the Congress Friday came out with its manifesto, announcing a raft of promises to woo the marginalised, such as lifting the 50% cap on quota for SCs, STs and OBCs in addition to ...

UNICEF and partners are stepping up efforts to ensure equitable access to nutrition services and care in 16 countries where malnutrition risks are highest among pregnant women and adolescent girls. The new Improving Maternal Nutrition Acceleration Plan to Prevent Malnutrition and Anemia During Pregnancy promises to go a long ...

Srinagar: Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir cutting across ideological lines, conveyed to the Chief Election Commissioner on Tuesday that they support simultaneous scheduling of Assembly polls in J&K alongside the Lok Sabha elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also voiced its support for this proposal.BJP seeks separate polling ...

Underlining that it is time to sensitise and “educate our police” on freedom of speech and expression and “the extent of reasonable restraint”, the Supreme Court has set aside a Bombay High Court order and quashed an FIR against a Maharashtra college professor booked for his WhatsApp status critical ...

GULMARG, India: Winter in the Himalayas should mean blanketing snow, and for Gulmarg in Indian-administered Kashmir, one of the highest ski resorts in the world, that usually means thousands of tourists.This year, the deep powder once taken for granted is gone. The slopes are brown and bare, a stark ...

From a technology policy lens, the success of the Chandrayaan-3 mission in 2023 – which saw India become the fourth country to land a rover on the moon and the first to do so near the Lunar south pole – brings up a pertinent question: if largely government-run efforts ...

NEW DELHI: The BJP is leaving no stone unturned to make the grand Ram Temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22 a memorable event even as the opposition parties under the INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc seem to be a divided lot with many of them ...

Indonesia seems desperate to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), regarded as a rich man’s club. President Joko Widodo is pushing for an accelerated process and announced in October that it would set up a national committee to do so.Indonesia has been a key partner of ...

New evidence from 19 years of monitoring the hangul, or Kashmir stag’s population, within Dachigam National Park, reveals that despite protection, the species has been unable to increase its numbers. A population viability analysis conducted by the researchers found that further population decrease is likely.“Although the survey methods need ...