PM-RAHAT provides care to 25,000 crash victims (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: In the past eight months, nearly 25,000 road crash victims have been treated under PM-RAHAT, govt’s cashless scheme, and in nearly 13,000 cases, hospitals have been reimbursed for cost of treatment, a top road transport ministry official said Tuesday.Speaking at a roundtable on…
NEW DELHI: The INDIA bloc is set to meet for the second time in four months on Wednesday to chalk out its response to the alleged differences within the Election Commission over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls.The opposition parties are likely to finalise a joint action plan, including an agitation against the…
The cabinet of Madhya Pradesh has sanctioned horizontal reservations for ex-Agniveers aiming to join various uniformed services, such as the police force. The Madhya Pradesh cabinet has approved a 20% horizontal reservation for former Agniveers in several uniformed services and cleared schemes and projects worth more than Rs 24,500 crore, the state government said.The decisions…
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat highlighted four pillars of Dharma as essential for national progress at an event in Maharashtra. Emphasising the foundational values governing human conduct, Bhagwat pointed out that Dharma transcends mere rituals or personal habits. “It is stated in our ancient texts that Dharma stands on four pillars: the first is Truth, the…
NEW DELHI: A career in IT and security did not save her from losing Rs 90 lakh to cybercrime. The professional, with 28 years of experience, was among 33 victims interviewed for an IIT Madras-led study that found technological familiarity could be overwhelmed by fear, urgency and psychological manipulation.Participants came from Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New…
The first part of the textbook was released in June. NCERT’s new class nine social science textbook, released on Tuesday, mentions that many kings and princes received swords from goddesses such as Kali, Durga, and Bhavani to resist invasions since the seventh century.The chapter titled “Resistance and Resilience” in the book “Understanding Society India and…
NEW DELHI: Calcutta high court on Tuesday granted interim bail to Congress candidate Milan Pradhan to contest the Nandigram bypoll, bar and bench reported.Pradhan was sent to judicial custody until October 7 by a court in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district on Wednesday, in connection with the case. The Additional chief judicial Magistrate of Contai…
NEW DELHI: DMK on Tuesday said it would not attend the INDIA bloc meeting scheduled for September 30, asserting that it is no longer part of the opposition alliance after Congress broke ties with it and extended support to Vijay’s TVK following the Tamil Nadu assembly elections.DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan said several parties were reluctant…
NHRC seeks reports over alleged use of minors in scripted social media videos in UP’s Etah NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday took cognizance of a complaint alleging the repeated use of minor children in “scripted, objectionable and politically sensitive” social media videos linked to a purported coaching centre in Etah,…
NEW DELHI: Several Aam Aadmi Party leaders including Saurabh Bharadwaj and MLA Jarnail Singh were detained outside the Delhi Police headquarters during a protest on Tuesday, demanding an FIR against Delhi minister Pravesh Varma for slapping a person during a road inspection in West Delhi’s Tilak Nagar.An FIR has also been registered against Bharadwaj, Jarnail…
