NEW DELHI: Now, all vegetable oil producers and processors will have to furnish monthly details of arrival of raw materials, production, import, sale, export and stock in hand to the food ministry, a move that will help the govt get real-time updates on availability rather than depending on data from their associations.The ministry has amended…
NEW DELHI: Women do not just constitute most living organ donors, data shows they outnumber men when it comes to percentage of applicants for driving licence pledging to become deceased donors in case of fatal accidents.Ministry of road transport and highways, in Sept 2023, introduced a provision to pledge for organ donation in case of…
NEW DELHI: As part of the Navy’s ongoing operational deployment to Southeast Asia with an eye firmly on China’s aggressive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific, three Indian warships have reached the Philippines while another is exercising with the Singapore Navy.The deployments of stealth frigate INS Satpura for the bilateral “Simbex” exercise with the Singapore Navy as…
SHIMLA/KULLU: Battered by heavy rain and flash floods, a temporary dam in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district collapsed Friday, sweeping away heavy machinery and triggering panic in downstream areas. No casualties were reported.The cofferdam breach sent a torrent of water crashing into the Malana-I hydroelectric project site. It gave way after the Malana rivulet in Parvati…
NEW DELHI: Not a single claim or objection was filed within the first 24 hours of publication of the draft electoral roll in Bihar, by any of the 1.6 lakh booth level agents (BLAs) deployed by a dozen political parties across the state’s 90,712 booths.However, EC said 3,223 applications were received between 3pm on Aug…
PATNA/NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday slammed Congress neta Rahul Gandhi for claiming to have an “atom bomb of evidence of vote theft” against Election Commission of India, and dared him to detonate the explosive.At an event organised by a media house in Patna, Singh also likened the upcoming state polls to a…
CHENNAI: DMK and its allies have opposed the decision of Election Commission to register migrant workers in the states of their domicile, alleging that inclusion of migrants from north India in the Tamil Nadu voter list would alter political landscape of the state.The apprehension arose after EC explained that 65 lakh voters missing in the…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court issued notice on Saturday to businessman Robert Vadra, husband of Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in connection with a money-laundering case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate that is linked to a land deal in Shikohpur village in Gurugram, Haryana.The Rouse Avenue court issued notice to all the proposed accused, including…
NEW DELHI: Bilateral discussions for renewal of the India-Bangladesh Ganga Water Treaty are yet to commence between the two countries, the govt informed Parliament on Friday. The treaty signed in 1996 expires next year.“Under the framework of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC), technical-level meetings continue to be held with Bangladesh on all water-related issues of…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday claimed that former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar was forced out by the Modi govt because after years of “harassing” the opposition, he suddenly decided to move by the book.The decision to admit the notice to remove Justice Shekhar Yadav, along with the one against Justice Yashwant Varma, riled…