The unemployment rate dropped by 0.6% between 2019-20 and 2020-21 from 4.8% to 4.2%, the Centre told Parliament on Monday citing data from statistics and programme implementation ministry’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). “The PLFS data indicates that the unemployment rate has a declining trend in rural areas as well as at all India level,” […]
India’s PV Sindhu took another giant step towards permanently etching her name in the badminton history books by winning her maiden Commonwealth Games individual gold and completing a hat-trick of medals at the Games with a win over Michelle Li of Canada in the women’s singles final in Birmingham. Sindhu has now bettered the medal […]
Three women were killed in a stampede outside a temple in Rajasthan’s Sikar district early on Monday, police said. Long queues were seen outside the Khatu Shyam temple as devotees had gathered on the occasion of ‘Gyaras’, an auspicious day as per Hindu calendar. Three women were killed in a stampede outside a temple in […]
Star Indian boxer Amit Panghal avenged his last Commonwealth Games final loss by clinching the men’s flyweight (51kg) gold while Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) reigned supreme on her debut appearance here on Sunday.In the evening, Nikhat Zareen won gold medal after beating Northern Ireland pugilist by unanimous verdict in final (50kg). In athletics, Eldhose Paul led […]
Indian boxers Nitu Ghanghas won the women’s 48kg Commonwealth Games title before Amit Panghal (men’s 51kg) joined her on the top of the podium, here on Sunday.Panghal bettered his silver from the last edition as he out-punched European Championship silver medallist England’s Kiaran MacDonald by a 5-0 verdict in the men’s flyweight. Nitu, on the […]
ISRO Chairman S Somanath on Sunday informed the space agency’s maiden Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) suffered “data loss” at the terminal stage, although three stages “performed and separated,” and said the space agency was analysing the data to ascertain the status of the vehicle and the satellites. SSLV-D1/EOS 02 was carrying an earth observation […]
Jagdeep Dhankhar was elected as the vice-president this evening. Members of parliament of both houses voted to elect the next Vice-President in an election where NDA candidate Dhankhar was pitted against Opposition’s Margaret Alva. The BJP-led NDA candidate won the election comfortably with 528 votes against Ms Alva’s 182, the voting for which took place […]
Voting for electing the new Vice President began here on Saturday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first to cast his vote. A long queue of MPs was seen well before the start of voting.As many as 543 of Lok Sabha MPs and 237 Rajya Sabha MPs, including the nominated members, constitute the electoral college for […]
Indian wrestler Sakshi Malik clinched country’s third medal in wrestling of the day at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham by defeating Ana Paula Godinez Gonzalez in the finals of women’s freestyle 62 kg category on Friday. The Canadian Gonzalez was dominating the match initially as she gained a 0-4 lead in the first […]
Taiwan’s defence ministry on Friday said the island’s military has dispatched aircraft and ships and deployed land-based missile systems to monitor the situation, as China conducts large-scale military drills in zones surrounding Taiwqn. Taiwan’s military will prepare combat readiness but will not ask for a war, the defence ministry added.