News from India
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Monday intensified its enforcement drive against food safety violations by suspending the licence of Matri Drinking Water in Tripura and issuing a prohibition order against...
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, India has reported a fall in fatalities on its national highways, and development officials are hailing it as evidence that road safety interventions are beginning to take...
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) India has achieved near-universal banking coverage, with 99.92 per cent of inhabited villages (6,00,868 out of 6,01,328) now served by a banking outlet, which includes a bank branch, business correspondent or India Post payments bank,...
Patna, Aug 3 (IANS) Following Prashant Kishor’s victory in the Bankipur Assembly by-election, celebrations erupted among Jan Suraaj supporters, while political leaders across Bihar reacted to the outcome. Prashant Kishor’s wife, Dr Jahnavi Das, expressed her happiness over the victory...
Chandigarh, Aug 3 (IANS) Signalling it stands firmly with Gen Z and raising its voice against what it termed as atrocities on the country’s youth, the Punjab Assembly on Monday passed a censure motion against repeated paper leaks across the...
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Monday appreciated the steady momentum in India-Uzbekistan ties as he held a meeting with his counterpart from the Central Asian country, Bakhtiyor Saidov, who is currently on a...
Jammu, Aug 3 (IANS) A soldier was killed when his service rifle went off accidentally in the Akhnoor sector of J&K’s Jammu district, officials said on Monday. The incident occurred during operational duty at the forward Jogwan area of Khour...
Madurai, Aug 3 (IANS) A small-scale businessman from Madurai has received a personal letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in response to a note of gratitude he wrote after benefiting from the Centre's street vendor loan scheme. He described this...
New Delhi, Aug 3 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to the Arunachal Pradesh Chief Secretary and the Principal Secretary, Home, after taking note of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) status report indicating that the state government...
Imphal, Aug 3 (IANS) Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh on Monday said that although the state continues to face multiple challenges, the government, with the active support of the people, is making sincere efforts to restore lasting peace, adding...
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 3 (IANS) The Kerala government on Monday claimed to have achieved one of the biggest milestones under its 100 day action programme by completing the distribution of 73,024 new Priority Ration Cards and 2,000 Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY)...
Chandigarh, Aug 3 (IANS) Punjab BJP president Kewal Singh Dhillon on Monday hailed the Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict on releasing the dearness allowance (DA) of the state employees and slammed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for its...