Hyderabad: More than one billion people in India are now covered under social security schemes, Union labour minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday, highlighting what he described as a decade-long expansion of the country’s welfare and worker protection framework.He said this at the BRICS Trade Union Forum Summit in Hyderabad, adding that social protection coverage…
The minimum temperature in Gurgaon was recorded at 25 degrees Celsius on Tuesday Gurgaon: Residents should brace for hot and humid weather over the next two days, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a yellow alert for Gurgaon and most districts of Haryana till July 16. Weather conditions are expected to improve from July…
Kolkata: A retail company in Kolkata lost Rs 1.5 crore in a digital impersonation scam.An accounts employee received a WhatsApp message from an unknown number that used the photo of the company’s managing director. The sender pretended to be the managing director and asked for an urgent fund transfer.Believing the message was real, the employee…
Ghaziabad: A sessions court has dropped a criminal miscellaneous case linked to a 45-year-old murder after the convicts were acquitted by the Allahabad High Court in 2024. The case was linked to the recovery of a fine of Rs 500 from the convicts. The fine had been imposed on them by a special court in…
Panaji: State govt will conduct a comprehensive Food, Nutrition, Health, and WASH (FNHW) study to assess dietary diversity among women and children, household-level food security, and practices related to the initiation of complementary feeding.Samples will be drawn from four categories: pregnant women, mothers of children under two years, and children under two years. The study…
*Gorakhpur: A second-year BSc student and an ITI-qualified youth were arrested on Tuesday by Gorakhpur police for allegedly operating a cyber fraud racket that duped people across the country through fake loan applications, police said.According to Kotwali SHO Chhatrapal Singh, the accused have been identified as BSc second-year student Manjeet Kumar (22) and ITI passout…
Ahmedabad: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has refused to grant regular bail to Shama Parveen Ansari, 30, who was arrested in a case linked to alleged online terror propaganda of al‑Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).In July last year, Gujarat ATS arrested Ansari from Bengaluru for allegedly spreading al-Qaida propaganda through social media.She…
Panchkula: The Cyber Crime police station in Panchkula has arrested the alleged kingpin of an interstate cyber fraud racket accused of siphoning off crores of rupees through fraudulent income tax refunds claimed from hacked e-filing accounts of NRIs.The accused, Dalip BR alias Dalip Rajgoda, was arrested in Karnataka and produced before a court, which remanded…
A stray dog loiters on the Pune airport premises Pune: A PMC official of deputy commissioner rank would be appointed as the nodal officer to coordinate with the Indian Air Force on key civic issues, particularly garbage management around the Air Force Station and the airport, Union minister of state for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol…
Aizawl: Kuki-Zo leaders from Manipur’s hill districts met church leaders from Nagaland and Mizoram in Aizawl on Tuesday to explore a dialogue process aimed at ending the Naga-Kuki conflict in Manipur, sources in the Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitute Committee (MKHC), a coalition of major church denominations in the state, said.According to the sources, MKHC leaders held…
