New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The Centre has implemented several initiatives in 2024 aimed at enhancing the welfare of pensioners, streamlining grievance redressal, and promoting digitisation in pension processes, according to the Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW) year-end review released on Sunday.
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) A day after Dr Manmohan Singh's cremation, his family members collected his ashes on Sunday while leaders from the Congress and the Gandhi family remained conspicuous by their absence, said a Sikh leader who was present at Nigambodh Ghat in the morning.
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) It is indeed a bizarre situation where a Chief Minister announces schemes and the government terms them ‘fraud’. This probably must be unprecedented in Independent India’s history, but that is how it has been happening in the national capital.
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) AAP national convenor and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched a scathing attack on the BJP on Sunday, accusing the party of attempting to manipulate the voter lists, and also claimed that 'Operation Lotus' has been going on since December 15 in his Assembly constituency.
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 117th episode of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' on Sunday launched a nationwide campaign to honour the milestone of India celebrating 75 years of the adoption of its Constitution
Hyderabad, Dec 29 (IANS) Two months ago a senior Minister in Telangana had predicted political fireworks before Diwali. This did not happen, prompting the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to ridicule the ruling Congress party over its 'empty threat'.
New York, Dec 29 (IANS) President-elect Donald Trump has declared that he is a "believer in H-1B" visas, quashing the opposition to the programme for qualified professionals to work in the US that pitted the right-wing fringe against his advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Union Railways Minister and senior BJP leader Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Saturday, hit out at the Congress for playing politics over the last rites of former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and said that the latter was insulted by the grand old party when the then Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi publicly tore an ordinance which was approved by the Union Cabinet under Dr Singh in 2013.
Patna, Dec 28 (IANS) In a major reshuffle in the Bihar Police department, a total of 62 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers have been transferred and re-posted to various positions, an official said on Saturday.
Mumbai, Dec 28 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday announced strict and swift action in the gruesome crime involving a 13-year-old girl in Kalyan, saying that senior advocate Ujjwal Nikam will represent the rape-murder case in court.
