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Severe staff shortages persist at NCERT, NCTE and NIOS, ministry tells parliament NEW DELHI: More than half the sanctioned posts at the National Council of Educational Research and Training remain vacant, according to data shared in Parliament. The figures show that the body carried out no recruitment for two consecutive years.The information was given by…
NEW DELHI: The national capital continued to reel under hazardous air conditions on Friday, with Anand Vihar and surrounding areas blanketed by a thick layer of toxic smog.The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has activated all measures under GRAP Stage-IV in Delhi-NCR to tackle the rising pollution. From Work-From-Home To Vehicle Ban- Delhi Rolls…
NEW DELHI: The Congress‘s internal churn burst into the open again recently after former Odisha MLA Mohammed Moquim wrote to Sonia Gandhi, calling for “open-heart surgery” in the party and flagging a growing disconnect between the leadership and its workers.Similar concerns were raised in the run-up to the Bihar assembly elections this year in November,…
In a narrow lane of India, men and women wait quietly with plastic drums lined in rows. Some squat, some sit, with eyes fixed on the bend ahead. Suddenly, the silence breaks. A water tanker reverses into the alley, its engine drowning out the waiting. Young men rush forward, climbing atop the truck, lowering pipes…
IndiGo flight cancellations caused massive chaos at airports NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Thursday stated that they have taken the complaints against IndiGo under consideration after wide=spread disruptions caused earlier this month, which included cancellation of hundreds of domestic flights.“The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has taken cognizance of Information filed…
In a landmark measure, from Thursday (December 18) onwards, “No PUC, No Fuel” regulation will be effected across Delhi. Under this, vehicles without a valid Pollution Under Control (PUC) certificate won’t get petrol, diesel or CNG at any filling stations. Now it is not news that air pollution in Delhi NCR has reached hazardous levels….
NEW DELHI: Dense smog continued to blanket the national capital on Wednesday, sharply reducing visibility and keeping air quality in the very poor to severe range, even as authorities stepped up curbs to rein in pollution. Delhi’s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood near 350, a marginal improvement from day earlier, but conditions remained hazardous….
TL;DR: Driving the newsChina’s economic engine sputtered hard in November, with retail sales rising just 1.3% – the weakest since December 2022, when “zero-Covid” ended – and industrial production slowing to 4.8%, a 15-month low.Meanwhile, fixed-asset investment dropped 2.6%, the worst performance in decades, and property investment plunged nearly 16%. Even the usually robust auto…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing concerns over the exponential rise in airfares due to the IndiGo crisis, aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu on Friday said that the prices of flight tickets are on par with the rest of the world and that the government has taken steps to bring down prices during extraordinary times.While…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo on Friday appointed an external aviation specialist to investigate the “root cause analysis of the recent operational disruption,” the airline’s Board said in a statement. The decision follows the recommendation of the Crisis Management Group (CMG) set up by the IndiGo Board shortly after the operational disruptions began in the first week…
