People living near river drains are at elevated risk of developing cancer: ICMR 

Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that a study conducted in 2024 and  published in the Indian Academy of Sciences on human health risk assessments revealed that people residing near river drains are highly prone to developing cancer, with hazard quotients observed … Read more

Parliament Budget Session 2025 LIVE: Several leaders congratulate PM Modi for receiving Mauritius’ highest civilian honour

States with successful family planning record will be ‘penalised’ in delimitation exercise: Congress Delimitation could “penalise” the States that adhered to familiy planning goals and reduced total fertility rates, the Congress warned on Tuesday (March 11, 2025). Amid the delimitation row spearheaded by the southern States, Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh, in a long X … Read more

Tamil Nadu government refusing to implement NEP for political reasons: Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar

Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar in New Delhi on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) dubbed the Tamil Nadu government “hypocrite”, accusing it of refusing to implement National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as part of a political agenda … Read more

RSS leader wants India to be called only as ‘Bharat’

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh newly-elected General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale addresses a press conference during the ‘Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha-21’ in Bengaluru, Saturday, March 20, 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI Pitching India to be termed only as ‘Bharat’, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale questioned if anywhere in the world a country has two names, … Read more

Don’t stand in the way of aspirations of students, Dharmendra Pradhan tells Tamil Nadu government

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks in the Rajya Sabha on March 11, 2025. Photo: Sansad TV via ANI Maintaining his position that the three-language formula in the National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020 is different from the policy implemented by the Congress government in 1968, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urged the Tamil Nadu government … Read more