Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) Haryana Police on Friday announced the formation of an all-women inquiry committee to look into allegations that women commuters were pulled out of their cars during the recent Jat agitation and…
Beijing, Feb 26 (IANS) China’s top legislature on Friday passed the country’s first law on deep seafloor resource exploration to protect the maritime environment and ensure sustainable exploitation. The legislation was adopted after a second…
Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The government on Friday said it will not withdraw forces from the Saltoro range heights on the Siachen Glacier despite the human…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from the central government and Delhi Police on a plea seeking a SIT probe into the assault on journalists and JNU students by…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The 2015-16 Economic Survey on Friday recommended amendments to the anti-corruption law, pointing out that civil servants in the recent past were reluctant to take decisions primarily due to certain…
Imphal, Feb 26 (IANS) In a welcome development on Friday, the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has lifted the two-day-old ban on the movement of vehicles of non-tribal Manipuris in all “Naga-inhabited areas”. This follows an…
New Delhi: Union Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari addresses a press conference in New Delhi, on Sep 22, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Chennai, Feb 26 (IANS) A total of 150 projects, involving an…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Friday urged the Delhi girl raped in Haryana’s Murthal to “come out” and “help nail the culprits”. “Heard girl raped in…
Ranchi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Census of India in 2011 widely undercounted the tribal population in Jharkhand because of seasonal migration, Rameshwar Oraon, the chairman of the National Commission for the Scheduled Tribes, said on…
Ranchi, Feb 26 (IANS) Jharkhand’s Bhokta and Puran are among the 18 communities across India that are likely to be designated as Scheduled Tribes (STs) by the government, the National Commission for STs said on…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Mission has played an important role in attempting to solve the problem of open defecation in India, but the next challenge is bringing behavioural…
Aizawl, Feb 26 (IANS) The northeastern state of Mizoram will implement the National Food Security Act 2013 from March 1, a minister said here on Friday. “Necessary arrangements have been made for making available subsidised…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Tiny Tripura’s style of handling insurgency and building relations with Bangladesh should be taken into account by India’s foreign policy planners while dealing with neighbouring countries, says a senior journalist…
Beijing, Feb 26 (IANS) China’s State Council on Friday launched its Chinese-language mobile app to facilitate information release and provide new services for the public. The app will be used mainly to release major decisions…
(Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday sought response from the Centre and Delhi Police on a plea seeking SIT probe into the assault on JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya…
Lhasa, Feb 26 (IANS) Tibetan authorities are set to build 250 bilingual kindergartens in rural areas by 2020, a media report said on Friday. The regional government will increase the gross enrolment ratio in pre-school…
Beijing, Feb 26 (IANS) China’s capital Beijing will build a new ring road to ease traffic pressure, one of the city’s new moves to improve public transportation and increase eco-travel, a municipal planning report released…
New York, Feb 26 (IANS) Technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead us to continue using all the oil, gas, and coal we can, unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions, according to…
By Prachi Salve Amid criticism, central funding of national health programmes was cut 15 percent in the union health budget of 2015-16, but state health budgets taken together had already risen 21 percent…
Oslo, Feb 26 (IANS) Norway said that it has stepped up its efforts to help refugees in Greece by allocating more funds to strengthen Athens’ capacity to deal with the flow of refugees. The authorities…