The Jharkhand government urged the Centre to release around Rs 900 crore pending under the material component of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and raise the daily wage rate for workers to Rs 433, flagging the impact of delayed payments and rising rural distress.
At least three labourers were buried alive and several others were injured, three seriously, when the wall of an under-construction hotel collapsed near Chandwaji, along the Jaipur - Delhi Highway, on Monday afternoon.
Under the policy, electric cars priced up to Rs 30 lakh will be exempt from road tax and registration fees.
Kerala Chief Minister V D Satheesan has written to West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, requesting his urgent intervention to resolve the stalled passport renewal application of senior journalist and former editor of The Telegraph, R Rajagopal.
Thousands of people from different sections of society on Monday gathered at the Talkatora Stadium to pay respects to the Delhi BJP’s Naresh Chaudhary who passed away on June 19. He was 62.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin underwent a successful cardiac therapeutic procedure at Apollo Hospital here on Thursday to correct the irregular variations in his heart rate.
The court's single bench of Justice Sameer Jain gave relief to Zafar Ali here on Thursday.
In a continued effort to empower the ex-servicemen (ESM) through their induction into the country’s workforce, Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare (MoD) under the aegis of the Directorate General Resettlement (DGR), is organizing a job fair for ex-servicemen at Chatrapati Shivaji Auditorium, Ahmedabad Military Station, Gujarat, on Friday.
The holy mace was carried in a ceremonial procession from its abode at Dashnami Akhara near Lal Chowk by Mahant Deependra Giri, the custodian of the Chhari Mubarak.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Thursday, said while previous governments invoked the name of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, they failed to honour his wishes — a task, he claimed, now fulfilled by the double-engine government.
