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Anganwadi health workers’ honorarium to be doubled
The monthly remuneration of over 11 lakh anganwadi community health workers would doubled with retrospective effect from April 1, the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) decided Thursday. Taking forward the promise made by
Read More »Iranian Navy to hold war games
The Iranian Navy plans to hold a largescale war game this year, a navy official has said. “Definitely, we will hold a large-scale marine manoeuvre (called) Great Velayat 90,” Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayari told
Read More »New Delhi: Businessman shot during snatching bid
A businessman was shot as he tried to resist a snatching bid near a Metro station in north Delhi, police said Thursday. His condition is still critical. Pravin Nagpal, 56, a resident of West
Read More »22-year-old maid woman commits suicide
A 22-year-old maid, who had been pulled up over a theft four months ago, committed suicide Thursday by jumping from the sixth floor of a building here, police said Thursday. Reena, from West Bengal,
Read More »PM’s comments on corruption unsatisfactory: BJP general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad
The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday termed as “unsatisfactory, highly elusive and also deeply deplorable” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remarks on corruption during his meeting with newspaper editors. Talking to reporters in New
Read More »667 child labourers rescued in Punjab in a week
The Child Labour Eradication Week June 12-18 in Punjab has meant freedom for 667 children who were forced to work at various places, a minister said here Thursday. “Six hundred and sixty-seven children engaged
Read More »Triggering speculation in political circles, Maran meets PM
Triggering speculation in political circles, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran, who is facing allegations of corruption, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here Thursday. “Maran had a meeting with the prime minister,” an official in the
Read More »A. Peter Burleigh interim US ambassador to India
With Timothy J. Roemer heading back to Washington, A. Peter Burleigh, a veteran Hindi-speaking American diplomat, will take charge Friday as interim US ambassador to India. Burleigh, who has spent 33 years as a
Read More »India gives conditional approval to Cairn-Vedanta deal
In a major relief to the Anil Aggarwal-led Vedanta Resources, the Indian government Thursday conditionally approved the company’s plan to buy majority stake in oil explorer Cairn India. “This will create an appropriate sentiment
Read More »10 million Indians get their unique ID number
Within nine months of its launch, one crore (10 million) Indians have been issued their unique identification number or Aadhaar numbers, a government statement said Thursday. “It took three months to cross the ten-lakh
Read More »AAI chess: Sasi and Parimarjan Negi win 8th round ties
Parimarjan Negi stopped his run of losses while Krishnan Sasikiran got back to his winning ways in what turned out to be a good day for the Indians in the AAI Grandmasters Chess here
Read More »Bomb scare at Delhi Sarojini Nagar market
A bomb disposal drill was carried out in Sarojini Nagar market in south Delhi Thursday after a man alerted police about a suspicious article lying in a box attached to an electric pole. It
Read More »Boxer Vijender’s father in the dock: National emblem misuse
The use of the national emblem on the wedding card of Olympic bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh has landed his father and the printer in trouble, with the police filing a report against them
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