Gujarat draws up plan to free 25 locations of beggary Ahmedabad: Gujarat has launched a rehabilitation programme to make Vadodara, Gir Somnath, Ekta Nagar and Pavagadh and 21 other places free of beggary as part of central govt’s SMILE (support for marginalised individuals for livelihood and enterprise) campaign. These locations had performed well in the…
Chandigarh: A day after the ‘Maha Hartal’ by Punjab govt employees prompted the personnel department to seek details of staff on “unauthorised absence”, departments have started submitting their responses, with some clarifying that employees who did not attend work had formally availed leave.The department of employment generation and skill development, for instance, informed the personnel…
Pune: The state govt has increased the honorarium paid to teachers working on an hourly basis in govt residential schools, citing rising inflation and difficulties in attracting qualified teachers at the existing rates.From the academic year 2026-27, eligible teachers will be paid between Rs205 and Rs250 per hour. The social justice and special assistance department…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he boards the flight for Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in New Delhi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday embarked on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic, during which he will hold bilateral talks with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and attend the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)…
Three ancient Greek rings that were likely made using meteoritic iron and other precious metals, PC: Journal Archaeological Science Long before iron smelting became widespread in Greece, some Bronze Age elites were already wearing jewellery made from iron that may have come from meteorites. A five-year study by Matthieu Gounelle of France’s National Museum of…
US Fed chairman Kevin Warsh Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has indicated that the US central bank may need to raise interest rates in the coming months if inflation does not make enough progress towards its 2% target.Speaking at the Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, Warsh acknowledged that recent US data…
Jamie Foxx had a stroke in 2023, and it was humor and joking about everything that got him through it. (Instagram) Oscar-winning star Jamie Foxx has been through quite a lot in his life. This also includes the massive stroke in 2023 that almost took his life; however, it also gave him a whole new…
India Post GDS Recruitment 2026: Registration starts August 31, check circle-wise vacancies India Post GDS Recruitment 2026: The Department of Posts has released the India Post Gramin Dak Sevak (GDS) Recruitment 2026 notification for 23,757 posts. The recruitment is being conducted under the GDS Online Engagement Schedule-II, July 2026, through Advertisement No. 17-12/2026-GDS.The notification was…
Hockey Women’s Coach Sjoerd Marijne Clears The Air On His Pre-WC Absence KOLKATA: It was 2020 and the pandemic had just begun.Sjoerd Marijne, then the coach of the Indian women’s hockey team, was in a cab en route to Bengaluru airport, from where he was supposed to fly back to the Netherlands to join his…
Delhi government has established a Consolidated Sinking Fund for debt repayment (AI-generated image used fro representational purposes) NEW DELHI: Delhi government has set up a debt repayment fund, named Consolidated Sinking Fund, to gradually build a reserve for repaying its existing debt and other financial liabilities with the objective of creating a long-term financial cushion…
