The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved a hike of 3 percent in the Dearness Allowance or DA for the central government employees and Dearness Relief or DR for pensioners. With the latest increase effective from January 2022, the DA and the DR now stand at 34 percent. Dearness Allowance […]
Aam Aadmi Party (AA) leader Manish Sisodia has claimed that anti-social elements dismantled the CCTV camera installed at the residence of Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the national capital. Sisodia is the Deputy Chief Minister. According to Sisodia, the miscreants also broke the security barrier outside Kejriwal’s residence. Besides, the boom barrier at the […]
Miss Universe Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu met Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann at his official residence on Wednesday. Chief Minister congratulated Harnaaz Kaur for making the country proud by bringing the title of Miss Universe back to India after 21 years.Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu has appealed to the society to stop targeting girls, including on the […]
India on Wednesday flight-tested two more rounds of Medium Range Surface to Air Missiles off the Odisha coast, DRDO sources said. The MRSAMs were test-fired from the Integrated Test Range launch pad-III at Chandipur near here before noon, they said.Both the tests were successful, sources said.On Sunday, too, two Army-version MRSAMs were test-fired from the […]
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Wednesday urged the Union government not to override the rights of the elected government of Punjab by implementing the central laws on the administration of Chandigarh, a Union Territory. Raising the issue during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Singh said the state of Punjab does not have […]
Seven-nation regional grouping BIMSTEC on Wednesday adopted a charter to expand its overall cooperation and firmed up a master plan for transport connectivity at a virtual summit attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders of the bloc. Shortly after the Summit, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said the adoption of the charter […]
A main ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government has reached a pact with opposition parties seeking to oust him, a party official said on Wednesday, signalling Khan may be running out of options as he tries to stay on in power. Former cricket star Khan, 69, is battling a series of defections from […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to meet senior Telangana Congress (TRS) leaders, along with state AICC in-charge Manickam Tagore on Wednesday. The meeting will be held at Rahul Gandhi’s residence in the national capital. The leaders are likely to discuss the political situation in the state, as well as the recent issue of the […]
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday prohibited ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker Narendranath Chakraborty from campaigning for a week ahead of the by-polls in West Bengal after a video went viral and purportedly showed him asking his workers to intimidate Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) voters. It cited the gravity of the matter […]
On the sixth day of the ongoing high school and intermediate examinations-2022 of UP, question paper of Intermediate English exam got leaked in Ballia district of the state before the exam on Wednesday. The English exam was scheduled to be held from 2pm to 5.15 pm in the second shift across 75 districts of the […]