Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel Gandhinagar: At the state-level Independence Day celebrations in Amreli on Saturday, chief minister Bhupendra Patel announced a series of measures, including free residential plots for eligible rural families, a Rs 3,428-crore road upgrade programme and a 67% hike in supplementary nutrition rates for anganwadi children.Eligible rural families will be allotted…
Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann at Cantonment Board Stadium in Ferozepur on Independence Day Ferozepur: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday announced a Rs 25-crore heritage complex at Hussainiwala and said private schools in Punjab would not be allowed to increase fees by more than 5%.Addressing the state-level Independence Day function at Cantonment Board…
Guwahati: Five Army personnel remained missing for more than 48 hours after a flash flood swept away shelters at a camp near the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley district on Friday evening, officials said.While initially seven personnel had been washed away, two were rescued. “There’s still no information about the missing personnel till Sunday…
Lucknow: A 70-year-old man was killed and eight others were injured after a group of armed men allegedly attacked members of a family during a dispute over agricultural land in Guman Singh Ka Purwa village under the Subeha police station area of Barabanki on Sunday evening.According to police, the attackers arrived on a tractor along…
Jaipur: Even as Union home minister Amit Shah lashed out at UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and demanded she apologise for her alleged affront to ‘Vande Mataram’ while it was being sung at Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Aug 15, the local BJP unit was besieged by a somewhat similar controversy when a Hindi film…
As the country has progressed, so has the theme of PM Modi’s speeches. NEW DELHI: From access to aspiration and from problems to potential – the focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speeches has kept changing since 2014.Those tracking his speeches over the last 12 years have noted how in the initial year,…
Rift between Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata and Chandrasekaran. MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Tata brass briefed senior govt functionaries on the turmoil inside the conglomerate ahead of N Chandrasekaran‘s announcement last Wednesday that he would step down as Tata Sons chairman in Feb, people familiar with the matter said.The engagement covered the rift between Chandrasekaran and…
Over a month after tying the knot with Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift made a rare appearance as she attended a wedding in London. The star, who was spotted in the UK last week, put on a chic black gown as she attended the nuptials of recording engineers Oli Jacobs and Laura Sisk at Peter Gabriel’s…
It is possible to wake up feeling a little sluggish like the sky was carrying more weight. The Moon sits awkwardly, and Saturn, your ruler, slows movement enough to make delays feel personal.Unexpected hurdles can show up in work or routine. A file stalls, a message goes unanswered, a planned task needs doing again. Annoying,…
New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta has held a meeting with National Informatics Centre (NIC) experts to discuss the rollout of an e-Cabinet system that will make the cabinet functioning largely paperless, with ministers and senior officials able to access confidential Cabinet documents securely on tablets. The platform provides secure, role-based access to the…
