In a joint operation, authorities in Karnataka and Maharashtra managed to reunite a speech impaired boy with his mother after six years with the help of fingerprints on an Aadhaar card. The boy, B. Bharath Kumar, had gone missing in 2016 from a market when his mother, Parvathamma, was selling vegetables.Parvathamma had lodged a complaint […]
A Venu Prasad has been appointed Principal Secretary to the CM.He is a 1991 batch IAS officer.He has remained the CMD of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited for long, and was currently posted as ACS, Excise and Taxation.This has set in motion the administrative changes to be effected by the new AAP government.
In the wake of the Samajwadi Party’s defeat in Uttar Pradesh, party chief Akhilesh Yadav is likely to quit the Karhal seat, which he won during his maiden ASSEMBLY elections, and remain as A Member of Lok Sabha from Azamgarh. “Now that we have not won the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections and are not forming […]
The Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) on Saturday fixed 8.1 per cent as rate of interest on EPF deposits for the year 2021-22. In the previous year (2020-21), the fund manager kept the interest rate on savings steady at 8.5% but Saturday’s downward revision is lowest in years. The decision to lower the interest rate, […]
Punjab CM-elect Bhagwant Mann on Saturday said that each MLA of the Aam Aadmi Party would work for the growth and progress of Punjab, once their government assumed office. The state would be run on the principles laid by Bhagat Singh – of public welfare and putting the state first, he said. He was taking […]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of kidnapping the mayor of the city of Melitopol, equating it to the actions of “ISIS terrorists”. “They have transitioned into a new stage of terror, in which they try to physically liquidate representatives of Ukraine’s lawful local authorities,” Zelenskyy said in a video address on Friday evening.Kirill Timoshenko, […]
India’s ODI skipper Mithali Raj on Saturday broke the record for most matches captained in the ICC Women’s World Cup, surpassing former Australian counterpart Belinda Clark. Mithali, 39, led the country in 24 World Cup games, claiming 14 victories, eight losses and one no result. Clark had captained her side in 23 matches.The India skipper […]
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has communicated the results of the Term-1 exams for Class 10 to the schools, according to an official. Last year, the CBSE had announced that the board examinations for 2022 will be conducted in two terms. The Term-1 exams for major subjects were held between November 30 and […]
US President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Indian-origin political activist Shefali Razdan Duggal as his envoy to the Netherlands, according to the White House. An immigrant to the US from Kashmir, Duggal, 50, has been raised in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York and Boston.The White House made the announcement on Friday along with […]
Seven people were killed after a fire broke out in shanties in northeast Delhi’s Gokulpuri area in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. A senior official of the Delhi Fire Services said information regarding the blaze near pillar number 12 of Gokulpuri village was received at 1.03 am.Thirteen fire tenders were rushed to the […]