Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. | Photo Credit: PTI Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was admitted to the AIIMS here early Sunday (March 9, 2025) after complaining of uneasiness and chest pain, sources said. The 73-year-old was taken to the hospital around 2 a.m. Mr. Dhankhar was admitted to the Critical Care Unit (CCU) under Dr Rajiv … Read more
Border Security Force (BSF) and Pakistan Rangers personnel during the Beating Retreat ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The U.S. has issued an advisory cautioning against travel to the immediate vicinity of the India-Pakistan border and the Line of Control due to terrorism and the potential for armed conflict and to … Read more
BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The BJP on Saturday (March 8, 2025) took a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks about his own party leaders and said he should first understand that he is responsible for his party’s defeat in elections and stop blaming others for his … Read more
“Five men were arrested in connection with the alleged slaughter of a pregnant cow and their “illegal” properties were razed down on Saturday (March 9, 2025) in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh,” police said. The accused were also “paraded” while being taken to a court. Earlier on Monday (March 3, 2025), two men accused of cow slaughter … Read more
One-day online training to about one lakh women farmers engaged in livestock farming. File | Photo Credit: PTI In the wake of increasing cases of zoonotic diseases, the Union Animal Husbandry Ministry provided a one-day online training to about one lakh women farmers engaged in livestock farming on Friday, on the eve of International Women’s … Read more
The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has urged gig and platform workers to register on the e-Shram portal. File | Photo Credit: MOORTHY M The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has urged gig and platform workers to register on the e-Shram portal for formal recognition and access to benefits under the Ayushman Bharat … Read more
The Ministry of External Affairs has not hired any fresh recruits into the interpreter cadre for nearly a decade and the cadre is being phased out, sources in the Ministry said. The decision to end the cadre that was started during the tenure of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was taken as the Ministry was not … Read more
Actor Ranya Rao. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case involving a gold smuggling racket with international links. The probe has been launched on the basis of inputs received from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), which recently arrested Kannada actor Ranya Rao at the Bengaluru … Read more
The emergency route for defence procurements has once again come to the Indian Army’s rescue in its bid to buy man-portable Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) systems, as repeated attempts to acquire the critical systems have failed. Since 2020, the Army has unsuccessfully tried to close three deals for two different missile systems, constituting … Read more
A file image of Easterine Kire | Photo Credit: The Hindu Annual awards recognise writers of novels, short stories, poetry, essays, plays; Indian writers celebrate different languages, singular identity not enough to define them, says Mahesh Dattani Hindi poet Gagan Gill and Naga author Easterine Kire, who writes in English, are among 23 recipients of … Read more