2023-09-16S O Correspondent
An orphan is an orphan, irrespective of how the death of his or her parents happened, the Supreme Court has said, asking the Centre if there are ways the benefits of schemes, including the PM Cares fund, which were meant for children orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic, can be extended to all orphans.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
While India becoming the fifth largest economy in the world is an 'impressive achievement,' there is a need to grow fast to increase the per capita income of the country from the present levels, former Reserve Bank of India Governor C Rangarajan said on Saturday.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
The Congress on Saturday said "free and open" discussions would take place during the CWC, asserting that its internal democracy is what makes it different from other parties.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
Four more workers, who were hospitalised after a service lift crashed at an under-construction society in Noida Extension, succumbed on Saturday, pushing the death toll in the incident to eight, officials said.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
A sister does not figure in the definition of 'family' of her brother, the High Court of Karnataka said dismissing the contention of a woman seeking a job on compassionate grounds on his demise.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to declare the destruction caused by heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh a "national disaster", just like the Kedarnath tragedy of 2013.
In a letter to Modi, Gandhi also sought financial assistance for providing relief to the victims and their families as well as for rebuilding the state.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
The Supreme Court on Friday termed the complaint against the Editors Guild of India (EGI) and its four members a “counter-narrative of the government” and asked as to how the offence of promoting enmity between different groups was made out against the journalists’ body which merely gave a report at Army’s request.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
Five members of a family including three children were killed after an old house collapsed Anand Naga area of Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, the police said on Saturday.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
Students were dancing in the aisles and their seats in the Hampton University auditorium long before Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage for the first stop of her fall college tour.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
A European Union regulator hit Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok with a 345-million-euro fine over child data breaches on Friday, in the bloc's latest salvo against the business practices of tech titans.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
Russia's Olympic Committee has said Moscow would not be boycotting the 2024 Olympics in Paris and every Russian athlete was free to choose whether or not to take part under a neutral banner.
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2023-09-16S O Correspondent
The Karnataka High Court has directed the police not to take precipitative action against Aaj Tak news channel’s Consulting Editor Sudhir Chaudhary in an FIR filed against him, but said that there was a prima facie case against him, and it should be investigated.
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