New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): As many as 39 lakh people in India were displaced in 2020 due to climate disasters and conflicts, making it the fourth worst-hit country in the world to have such a high number of inter
Chennai, June 4 (IANS): Water from air, use of environment friendly products instead of plastics, rain water harvesting, green power generation and planting of trees are some of the sustainable initiatives adop
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed actress Juhi Chawla's lawsuit challenging the setting up of 5G wireless networks in the country and slapped a cost of Rs 20 lakh on her and co-
Chennai, June 4 (IANS): South Indian superstar-turned-politician and Founder President of Makkal Needhi Maian(MNM), Kamal Haasan has said that the Tamil Nadu government must conduct the Class 12 board exam
Chennai, June 4 (IANS): SARS-Cov-2 has claimed the life of a lioness and has infected nine other lions at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, popularly known as Vandalur Zoo, located here.
The Vandalur Zoo in
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS): After a Dominican High Court adjourned the hearing in fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi's case, the eight member team of CBI, ED and MEA are now en route to India, without the diam
JAIPUR, JUNE 4 (IANS): Age is just a number! This practising lawyer from Rajasthans Jodhpur proves this adage as he turned 100 on Friday and despite becoming a centenarian continues to learn new things. He is a
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday constituted a 13-member committee to work out an objective criteria for assessment of class 12 students after their board exams
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): Amid the coronavirus pandemic and the resultant lockdown, legislatures of 19 states met for an average of 18 days last year, a legislative think tank has said.
Between 2016 and 2019,
HYDERABAD, JUNE 4 (IANS): With no Covid-19 isolation facility available near their habitation, some tribals in an interior village in Telangana spent few days in a forest after testing positive for Covid.
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New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): The Centre has asked all its departments to ensure that family pension begins within a month of receiving claims from the kin of a deceased government employee.
The Department of Pen
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): Journalist bodies including the Editors Guild of India (EGI) Friday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on the sedition case against veteran journalist Vinod Dua.
The apex court on Th
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): The Delhi High Court Friday expressed anguish over the way things have transpired in the second wave of COVID-19 where vaccine shortage is hitting everyone even when the Central governm
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lauded Indian scientists for developing a Made in India vaccine against COVID-19 and boosting other measures to fight the pandemic within a year o
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): The Centre has asked all states to set up special search committees to find out talented people who could be nominated for Padma awards but so far have been left out of consideration de
PATNA, JUNE 4 (IANS): In a bizarre incident, some faculty members and employees of Patna University shared condolence messages on social media mourning the 'demise of ex-Vice Chancellor Shambhunath Singh, w
DAMOH, JUNE 4 (IANS0: On a warm morning, Rakesh Singh walks up a jagged valley bristled with stones, carrying up a 'kuppa' (a spherical vessel) full of water on his head. It was only 8 a.m., but the sun
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): Critical of the government's handling of Covid, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said doctors need protection from coronavirus and the BJP dispensation's callousness as he
New Delhi, June 4 (PTI): The Delhi University is considering giving fee waiver to students who have lost their parents to the novel coronavirus infection, officials said on Friday.
The varsity has writt
New Delhi, June 4 (IANS): The central government on Friday said that more than 24 crore vaccine doses have been provided to the states and Union Territories so far.
It also said that 1.93 crore Covid vaccine