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NEW DELHI: At least eight people were killed on Friday after a private bus rolled off a hilly road near in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district, officials said. The bus was travelling from Kupvi to Shimla, news agency ANI reported. The death toll is feared to rise as several passengers sustained serious injuries.According to police, the…
NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW: About 2.9 crore voters, making up 18.7% of UP’s 15.4 crore-strong electorate at the launch of the state’s SIR exercise on Nov 4 last year, have been struck off the draft rolls published on Tuesday.These voters have time till February 6 to file claims and objections to get their names restored in…
NEW DELHI: With the Class X and XII board examinations set to begin from February 17, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday launched the first phase of its annual free psycho-social counselling services to help students cope with exam-related stress and anxiety.The support initiative, which commenced on January 6 and will continue…
Saudi Arabia enforces new saudization rules, giving engineers SAR 8,000 wage and boosting procurement jobs/Representative Image Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to increase local workforce participation in specialized jobs. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development has unveiled two major decisions that set higher saudization targets and introduce minimum wage standards, aiming to…
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) on Wednesday unveiled the first component of the six-year Export Promotion Mission – the Rs 4,531-crore market access support (MAS) for exporters to diversify into new product categories and new markets such as Latin America and Africa, with a special emphasis on MSMEs. This is the…
The government has notified detailed guidelines for two major shipbuilding initiatives with a combined outlay of over Rs 44,700 crore, aimed at strengthening India’s domestic shipbuilding ecosystem and enhancing global competitiveness.The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) said the two schemes — the Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Scheme (SBFAS) and the Shipbuilding Development Scheme (SbDS)…
BHOPAL: A sweeping revision of Madhya Pradesh’s electoral rolls has led to the deletion of 42.7 lakh voters, or 7.4% of the electorate, following a 44-day special intensive revision (SIR) that officials said ranks among the largest voter list clean-ups undertaken in the state.The draft electoral rolls published on Tuesday show the voter count falling…
NEW DELHI: The Chinese embassy in India has launched the China online visa application system, allowing Indian passport holders to apply for Chinese visas digitally. The move streamlines the application process that earlier required multiple in-person visits and extensive paperwork.According to a report cited by PTI, Shenzhen-based online portal Greater Bay Area (GBA), eligible applicants…
NEW DELHI: The draft electoral roll published in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat Friday under Phase-2 of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise witnessed 97.3 lakh and 73.7 lakh deletions, respectively. Another 1.2 crore electors in each of the two states stand to receive notices for “logical discrepancies” detected in their enumeration forms.The TN electorate has…
India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir, players Hardik Pandya and Sanju Samson after the team’s victory (PTI Photo/Shashank Parade) NEW DELHI: India ended the T20I series against South Africa on a high by winning the fifth and final match and sealing the five-match series 3-1 on Friday at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. With this…
