Rise in prices of pulses due to monsoon failure: forum
The recent price increase in pulses is due to monsoon failure in North India and delay in importing pulses by the Union...
View ArticleWHO reports 1.37 lakh road deaths in India in 2014
BENGALURU: Shocking but true — Karnataka ranked fourth highest states in the number of road crash deaths in India in 2014, killing 10,444. Bengaluru fared no better. It ranked fourth among worst 10...
View ArticleWHO reports 1.37 crore road deaths in India in 2014
BENGALURU: Shocking but true — Karnataka ranked fourth highest states in the number of road crash deaths in India in 2014, killing 10,444. Bengaluru fared no better. It ranked fourth among worst 10...
View ArticleJails are homes for 1,813 infants in India: NCRB
HYDERABAD: As many as 1,813 children below the age of six are inmates of prisons across the country. Their crime: they were born to their mothers who either have been convicted for a crime or are under...
View ArticleUpgradation Of Medical Colleges Under PMSSY (Ministry of Health and Family...
(Source: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Republic of India) The Government of India has undertaken upgradation of 13 existing Government Medical Colleges (GMCs) in the first phase, at an...
View ArticleProgress with Nitish but Bihar still on lowest rungs-I
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS/IndiaSpend) Bihar has the second-highest economic growth among poor states. It has India's third-highest level of poverty. Unemployment in Bihar is the highest among the poorest...
View ArticleA steady decline in death panalties
At a time voices against death penalty are getting louder, a government report has shown that the number of death-row convicts in Indian jails and awarding of capital punishment have decreased in the...
View ArticleUP tops in survey of Class VIII kids
NEW DELHI: NCERT's comprehensive survey of learning achievements of class VIII students across 24 states — comprising more than 300 districts and over 8,000 schools — reveals that Uttar Pradesh is a...
View ArticleNDA will win 36 out of 48 seats in Maharashtra, predicts poll
NEW DELHI: The Congress and UPA are facing decimation in a wide swathe of states from Delhi and Rajasthan in the north to Bihar and Jharkhand in the east, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the centre,...
View ArticleIndian general election: a brief guide
Conducting the largest election ever involves the work of about 5 million people, with approximately 800 million eligible to vote...
View ArticleBackwardness counts
A panel headed by Raghuram Rajan has recommended a new way of determining the backwardness of States for the purpose of deciding how much each State should receive as its share of Central funds. States...
View Article33,707 rape cases registered in India in 2013, MP tops list
July 02: Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest number of rape cases, followed by Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, in 2013 across the country which witnessed over 33,707 such incidents. A total...
View ArticleNew dairy projects worth over Rs 221 crore will come up across the country:...
NEW DELHI: A day after sanctioning dairy projects worth Rs 26 crore for the Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh's home state Bihar, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) on Friday...
View ArticleOver one third of Indians never went to school
More than one third of Indians, a majority of them women, have never gone to a school or even a literacy centre in their lifetime, the Census 2011 report on Population Attending Education Institution...
View Article4‚120 missing in Uttarakhand calamity
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View ArticleSouth Bay of Bengal bracing to host next tropical storm
Sunday’s low-pressure area over south Bay of Bengal has expectedly deepened into being ‘well-marked,’ an update from India Met Department. This will further intensify into a depression by Tuesday, the...
View ArticleShrinks for prison inmates in Tamil Nadu
CHENNAI: When Ram Singh, the prime accused in the Delhi rape case, hanged himself in his cell in Tihar jail, it caught the nation's attention. They may not be in the media spotlight like the...
View ArticleSpecial Courts for Victims of Atrocities (Ministry of Social Justice and...
(Source: Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of the Republic of India) As per the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules, 1961, inter-alia, the subject matter of criminal offences...
View ArticleNominations for 117 Lok Sabha seats to be filed today
Tweet New Delhi, Mar. 29 (ANI): Nominations for 117 constituencies going to polls during the sixth phase will be filed on Saturday. In all, the nomination process is spread over 11 states and the Union...
View ArticleList of Padma awardees
Following is the list of 104 persons conferred Padma Awards. They include nine Padma Vibhushan and 20 Padma Bhushan awardees. Padma Vibhushan Name (discipline), State/country: L.K. Advani (Public...
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