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Ashwini Vaishnaw holds press briefing after Cabinet meet NEW DELHI: In a boost for nation’s infrastructure, the cabinet on Tuesday approved four railway projects worth Rs 24,634 in a meeting chaired by Prime minister Narendra Modi.The four projects, spanning 18 districts across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Chhattisgarh, are set to expand the Indian Railways…
TOI correspondent from Washington: A Trump-appointed federal judge in Oregon on Sunday blocked the White House from sending troops to Portland, the state’s biggest city, amid a contentious stand-off between the US President and Democrat-run states and cities that is now spiraling towards a civil war. Separately, the home of a South Carolina judge who…
NEW DELHI: Amid the controversy over deaths of children in parts of Madhya Pradesh, allegedly due to consumption of sub-standard cough syrup, Union health secretary Punya Salila Srivastava on Sunday asked states/UTs to ensure strict compliance with Revised Schedule M – updated Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) — by all drug manufacturers.Srivastava, at a meeting with…
States must strengthen their financial position to accelerate poverty reduction and ensure sustained development, Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal, Global Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has said.“The central government’s fiscal deficit is fine, but the state governments are facing considerable challenges in terms…
NEW DELHI: Centre on Friday issued an advisory to all states and Union territories calling for a “rational use of cough syrups in the paediatric population” after nine deaths were reported in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara due to kidney-related complications.The ministry of health and family welfare informed that the tests on the cough syrup samples revealed…
The night sky is set to deliver a breathtaking spectacle this week, with the Northern Lights and the dazzling “Autumn Star” lighting up the heavens. Following the fall equinox, auroral activity traditionally increases, making late September and early October an ideal period for sightings. Regions such as northern Canada, Alaska, Greenland, and northern Scotland will…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court ruled that FIRs lodged against people for duping investors in different states cannot be clubbed into one FIR for the convenience of the accused as it would entail long-distance travel for witnesses and complainants during trial proceedings.Dealing with a plea of Pavan Kumar Odela-run Falcon Capital Ventures for clubbing of existing…
Omkar has been raiding banana plantations and destroying crops in Goa’s villages close to Maharashtra It is an elephantine problem that has brought together three neighbours — Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra — to launch a concerted operation to rescue and rehabilitate a 10-year-old elephant Omkar. It is a gargantuan effort that will involve at least…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission is likely to announce assembly bypolls in seven states along with the Bihar polls, and will deploy a total 470 officers from various civil services as general, police and expenditure observers for the simultaneous exercises.EC, in a statement issued on Sunday, shared that the 470 observers – including 320 from…
NEW DELHI: Poverty or poor financial condition is the most dominant driver of child marriage, according to a new report, citing responses by 91% respondents. It, however, noted that there has been a decline in cases at village level over past three years. Out of 757 villages across 15 districts in Bihar, Rajasthan, Assam, Karnataka…
