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New Delhi The Delhi Government has invited suggestions from people on its proposed scheme to make commute for women in public transport buses and Metro trains free, and asked them to submit the same till June 15. According to the Transport Department, people can send their suggestions at delhiwomensafety@gmail.com, besidesRead More
Gurugram Celebrated chef Jiggs Kalra, who earned epithets like ‘Czar of Indian Cuisine’ and ‘Taste Maker to the Nation’, passed away on Tuesday here. He was 72. He was unwell for the past few weeks, and passed away at a hospital here, said a source close to his family. LastRead More
San Diego Jiwandeep Kohli, a San Diego-based neuroscientist who is bisexual and a Sikh, is ringing in this year’s Pride Month with a rainbow turban that has gone viral on social media. Sharing an image of the elaborate creation on Twitter that has received nearly 30,000 likes, Kohli, who wasRead More
Lucknow BSP president Mayawati on Tuesday clarified that there had been no break of alliance with the Samajwadi Party. Speaking to a news channel, she said it is a temporary break to give SP president a chance to turnaround his party to make it a disciplined force and make hisRead More
New Delhi Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday presided over a meeting of top ministers including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. The ministers were closeted for more than an hour in the Home Ministry, officials said. Commerce and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal and Petroleum MinisterRead More
New Delhi Continuing with his previously held portfolio, senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday took charge of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. Gadkari is credited with reviving the languishing road projects from the UPA era and putting highway development on fast track. While road building momentum continues,Read More
New Delhi/Chennai Revising its draft education policy, the Centre today dropped the contentious provision of compulsory teaching of Hindi in non-Hindi-speaking states after the three-language proposal sparked outrage, mainly in Tamil Nadu. The DMK and other parties in Tamil Nadu, which had strongly opposed the proposal in the 484-page draftRead More
United Nations India, an important player in the global fight against AIDS, has called for focusing on efforts to invigorate research for improving diagnosis and developing vaccine and new treatments to alleviate the need for lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART). First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi TripathiRead More
New Delhi The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has brought separatist leader and alleged ringleader of stone pelting in Jammu and Kashmir, Masrat Alam Bhat, from a state prison to Delhi to question him in connection with a terror funding case. Bhat is the second separatist leader after Yasin Malik toRead More
New Delhi In his first trip as Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh on Monday will visit the Siachen Glacier — the world’s most dangerous battlefield — to meet the soldiers guarding the border beyond the heights of 12,000 feet. Singh, to be accompanied by Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat, will alsoRead More
