RANCHI: Lalbiaktluanga Khiangte, a 1988-batch Jharkhand IAS officer, has been appointed as the new chief secretary of the state, an official notification said on Wednesday.Khiangte replaces Sukhdev Singh, who has been made the director general of Shri Krishna Institute of Public Administration, it said.Khiangte, who was holding the charge of additional chief secretary, Department of […]
GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said India is a “Gau Mata” country and asserted that there is no dispute about it.Sarma was responding to a query by reporters on DMK MP, DNV Senthil Kumar’s controversial comment in Parliament on Tuesday in which he used a pejorative to describe Hindi heartland states […]
JAIPUR: BJP leader Balmukund Acharya took potshots at the Ashok Gehlot government for its ‘bad governance’ and the recent killing of Karni Sena Chief Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi in Jaipur.Condemning the murder of Sukhdev Singh Gogamedi, the BJP MLA from Hawa Mahal constituency, Balmukund Acharya, claimed that the Ashok Gehlot government is solely responsible for the […]
SRINAGAR: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said the BJP government has harmed the bond between Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the country with the abrogation of Article 370 provisions.Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement in Parliament, Abdullah said the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were not happy […]
NEW DELHI: The Pacific Northwest is currently experiencing severe weather conditions, with heavy rains, floods, and additional snowfall expected to continue for the next 24 hours, according to US weather forecasters. This extreme weather is due to a powerful atmospheric river that has brought tropical moisture to the region, particularly impacting the Cascade Mountains.Washington and […]
The National Medical Commission’s (NMC) new logo has sparked a controversy for featuring Dhanvantari, the physicians of the Gods in Hindu mythology, instead of a secular emblem. This has led to protests from many individual doctors, medical students and the largest doctors’ body, the Indian Medical Association. A look at the history of the regulatory […]
In an emotionally charged address, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un implored the women of his country to have more children and raise them as communists, visibly moved to tears during his speech.During the Fifth National Conference of Mothers in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un emphasized the importance of reversing the country’s declining birth rates. He […]
NEW DELHI: The number of accidental deaths in India increased to 4.3 lakh in 2022, the maximum in last five years, from 3.9 lakh in 2021. Road and rail traffic crashes had a high 46% share of these fatalities, followed by drowning, falls and poisoning.According to the NCRB report, Maharashtra reported the highest number of […]
PUNE: The city crime branch on Monday night arrested Dr Pravin Deokate, the suspended head of the orthopaedic department at the state-run Sassoon General Hospital, in drug kingpin Lalit Patil‘s escape case. Patil had fled the facility’s prisoners ward on October 2.On Tuesday, crime branch inspector Nandkumar Bidwai and his team produced Dr Deokate before […]
VISAKHAPATNAM/CHENNAI: Cyclone made landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast near Bapatla on Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by intense rain and wind speeds up to 100kmph, causing widespread devastation and affecting more than two crore people. The storm has claimed 17 lives so far – 16 in Chennai and its neighbouring districts, and a child in Andhra.The […]
