Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:45:54
All female central government employees will be entitled for 60 days special maternity leave in case of death of a child soon after birth, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) said on Friday.
The decision has been taken keeping in view the potential emotional trauma caused due to stillbirth or death of a child soon after birth, which has a far-reaching impact on t
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:42:26
Chief pontiff of Murugha Math Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, who has been arrested for alleged sexual abuse of two minor girls, was on Friday remanded to police custody till September 5.
The seer was arrested on Thursday night and later developed health complications in jail.
He was produced on Friday in a local court, where the police sought five days' custody.
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:41:07
An anganwadi worker has been booked for allegedly burning the private parts of a 3-year old boy for frequently wetting his pants in the classroom, police sources said on Friday.
The police came to know of the incident after a complaint was lodged by a woman and child development officer on Thursday. The incident took place on August 19.
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:39:03
The Assam government's ongoing drive to demolish madrassas for their connection to alleged "'jihadi activities" has drawn sharp criticism from the Opposition, which has termed the exercise as "totally illegal" and targeted at "one partcular community".
Three madrassas have been demolished by the BJP government within the last one month in different parts of the state after arresting their teach
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:35:08
Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has written to the party's central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry seeking the publication of electoral rolls for the upcoming election to the post of AICC president, sources said on Friday.
Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi, too, has reportedly written to Mistry asking him to make the electoral rolls public.
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:33:36
The Karnataka High Court has declined to grant an interim stay against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) ward delimitation, saying that the petitions could be heard and disposed of before September 22.
The State Election Commission (SEC) informed the HC that the final list of voters would be published on September 22 and the election process would commence only after that. Justice H
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:32:12
Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned India's first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant here on Friday, that put India into a select league of countries with domestic capability to build such large war ships.
The Prime Minister commissioned the carrier, built at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore, at a function organised at the Cochin Shipyard Limited here.
With the commi
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:30:56
Five more bodies have been fished out of the Ganga, taking the total death toll in Wednesday's boat capsize to seven.
Seventeen of the 24 people who were returning in the boat from a weekly market on Wednesday evening were rescued, while the bodies of two people were retrieved within hours of the incident in Reotipur police station limits.
Police said the bodies of Sandhya Kumar (6), Anita P
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Fri, 02 Sep 2022 19:29:29
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday offered prayers at Adi Shankara Janma Bhoomi Kshetram, the birthplace of saint-philosopher Adi Shankaracharya at Kalady village in Ernakulam district.
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