NEW DELHI:India ‘s doctor-population ratio is 1:834 assuming 80 per cent availability of registered allopathic doctors and 5.65 lakh AYUSH doctors, Minister of State for Health Bharati Pravin Pawar told the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. There are 36.14 lakh nursing personnel in the country and the nurse-population ratio is 1:476, she said. According to the […]
NEW DELHI:The Centre has told the Supreme Court that it is not possible to collect data of illegal migrants living in various parts of the country as entry of foreign nationals is clandestine and surreptitious. In its affidavit filed in the top court which is examining the constitutional validity of section 6A of the Citizenship […]
BENGALURU:Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Tuesday that action has been taken and seven people have been arrested so far in connection with the incident in Karnataka’s Belagavi district where a woman was stripped naked, paraded and assaulted after her son eloped with a girl of the same village. Speaking about the incident, Parameshwara […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:After the stellar success of its history-making Chandrayan-3 lunar mission, ISRO is going full throttle with its plans to send Indian astronauts for the first time on the moon by 2040, says its chairman S. Somanath. “Looking ahead, ISRO aims to take the next step in space exploration with the Gaganyaan programme, planning to launch […]
GANTOK:Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, arrived here on Monday morning for a three-day visit to Sikkim after a gap of 13 years. He will impart teachings on the ”Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas” during his stay in the Himalayan state. The Dalai Lama landed at the Libing army helipad around 10.30 am […]
NEW DELHI:India’s Supreme Court upheld on Monday a 2019 decision by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke special status for the state of Jammu and Kashmir and set a deadline of Sept 30 next year for state polls to be held. India’s only Muslim-majority region, Jammu and Kashmir has been at the […]
NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court on Friday strongly criticised a Calcutta High Court judgment which advised young girls to ”control sexual urge”, saying the observations are highly objectionable and unwarranted. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal said the observations are completely in violation of the rights of adolescents under Article 21 of […]
NEW DELHI:In accordance with ’16 days of activism against gender-based violence’ annual campaign, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) today commenced a two-day capacity building programme for its officials under the sexual harassment of women at workplace act, 2013. The inaugural session was convened in the presence of Atul Kumar Tiwari, Secretary, MSDE, […]
BANGALORE:As the winter chill sweeps through our community, Blanket Distribution, a compassionate initiative by Rotary Bangalore Midtown was done to provide warmth to those in need. On December 3, 2023, Rotary Midtown organized blanket distribution drive to alleviate the harsh conditions faced by the less fortunate during the coldest months of the year. Distributing blankets […]
NEW DELHI:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said any move on imposition of cross-border adjustment tax by developed countries to meet their green commitments is morally wrong and goes against the interest of developing countries of ‘Global South’. ”The single mono-sided decision of imposition of border adjustment tax …the logic just goes against the concern […]