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New Delhi, April 2: Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs Nityanand Rai in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha said Government has taken various positive initiatives to promote renewable and green energy in Union Territories through various schemes i.e. National Solar Mission, PM-KUSUM,…

    Srinagar, April 2: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday dismissed claims that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill allows non-Muslims to be part of Waqf management, stating that such rumors are being spread to mislead minorities. While speaking in the Lok Sabha on Waqf Amendment bill Home Minister Amit…

New Delhi: A group of over 600 women’s rights activists, intellectuals, and professionals have appealed to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to intervene to prevent the proposed closure of special cells for women in the Union Territory due to discontinuation of funding by the National Commission for Women…

New Delhi, March 26:India has developed its first indigenous Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine, set to be installed at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, by October for trials.   The move aims to reduce treatment costs and reliance on imported medical devices, as 80-85 percent of…

New Delhi, Mar 23: A video shared by the police commissioner of burnt wads of cash at Justice Yashwant Varma’s residence and preliminary findings of the Delhi High Court chief justice calling for a “deeper probe” have prompted Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna to constitute a committee to conduct…

  New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday fixed April 16 for hearing a batch of pleas challenging the appointment of the chief election commissioner (CEC) and election commissioners (EC) under the 2023 law.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh fixed the date for hearing the pleas…

  New Delhi, Mar 19: The four astronauts selected for Gaganyaan, India’s first human space flight mission, have been kept out of the public glare to ensure that there were no distractions, as they were undergoing certain acclimatisation and training programmes, the government said on Wednesday.Group Captain Prashanth Balakrishnan Nair,…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said bureaucrats couldn’t be allowed to “frustrate grassroot democracy” and upheld a Bombay High Court order reinstating a woman as the sarpanch of a Maharashtra village.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said it noticed several recent instances from the state…

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday participated in a traditional ‘halwa’ ceremony, marking the final stage for the preparation of Union Budget 2025-26 to be unveiled on February 1 in the Lok Sabha.The ceremony is a customary ritual in which traditional dessert ‘halwa’ is prepared and served to…