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December 20, 2024 12:40 PM
More than four lakh backlog vacancies in government jobs reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC) candidates have been filled since 2016, the Parliament was informed. "Occurrence and filling of vacancies, including the backlog reserved vacancies, is a c...
December 20, 2024 12:18 PM
A new report by the Centre for Financial Accountability reveals that project finance flowing into India's renewable energy sector surged by 63% in 2023, reaching Rs 30,255 crore ($3.66 billion) compared to 2022 figures. The report, titled 'Coal vs RE Investment in 2024', highlights that while proje...
December 20, 2024 12:03 PM
Driven by improved infrastructure and friendly government policies to boost tourism, India is now ranked 39th among 119th countries in the Travel and Tourism Development Index (TTDI) 2024 report, published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). In the previous index published in 2021, India was ranked ...
December 20, 2024 10:58 AM
Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination. "This policy, inflicted as part of a mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, means Israeli authorities...
December 20, 2024 10:33 AM
The Uttar Pradesh Power Department has fined Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Zia Ur Rehman Barq Rs 1.91 crore over allegations of electricity theft. This follows a police investigation into alleged electricity theft at his residence in the Deepa Sarai area of Sambhal. On Thursday, accompanied by a substant...
December 20, 2024 9:56 AM
The Indian stock market opened flat on Friday as the hawkish stance from the US Fed began to fade away. Buying was seen in auto, media and energy sectors in Nifty. The negative market reaction to the recent US Fed comments was not seen for long term and a large cap-led recovery is expected in the n...
December 20, 2024 9:33 AM
Yet another bomb threat was reported on Friday, this time at Delhi Public School (DPS) in Dwarka, marking the sixth such incident in the national Capital in just ten days. The school authorities informed the fire department at 5:15 A.M., prompting the dispatch of police personnel, fire brigade team...
December 18, 2024 5:31 PM
Russia said on Wednesday that Ukraine had repeatedly dropped white phosphorus munitions from drones in September, but Kyiv denied it had used such weapons and said it was Moscow which had used prohibited chemical substances on the battlefield. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova sa...
December 18, 2024 4:55 PM
The total number of mobile subscriptions in the country now stands at 115.12 crore (as on October 31), the Parliament was informed on Wednesday. Out of 6,44,131 villages in the country, around 6,23,622 villages now have mobile coverage, Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, Dr...
December 18, 2024 4:35 PM
Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari, in a written response in the Rajya Sabha, said that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) had spent a total of Rs 4.72 lakh crore on the Bharatmala Pariyojana as of 30 November. The Bharatmala Pariyojana, a flagship infrastr...
