West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: PTI “A Central team looking into allegations of irregularities in the allotment of houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) on January 6 visited various villages in West Bengal’s Malda district,” officials said. The team led by Deputy Secretary Shakti Kanti Singh of the Union Rural … Read more
Around 300 companies of central forces are expected to be deployed in Tripura for assembly polls due early 2023. File | Photo Credit: A.M. Faruqui Around 300 companies of central forces are expected to be deployed in Tripura for assembly polls due early 2023, and the first lot of the troops is likely to come … Read more
Photo used for representation purpose only. Around 25 lakh Central government pensioners have availed digital life certificates aided by facial recognition technology under a special drive, Union Personnel Minister Jitendra Singh said on Monday. A special drive was conducted for 20 days to encourage pensioners to avail the facility. The Minister asserted at a press … Read more
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] State secretariat has perceived a well-entrenched Sangh Parivar plot to impose the concept of Hindi, Hindu and Hindustan on secular, multi-ethnic and heterogeneous Indian society. The purported drive by the Parliamentary Committee on Official Languages to set down Hindi as the medium of instruction in IITs, IIMs, Kendra … Read more
The Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Green Brigade have urged the State government to immediately release compensation at the rate of ₹25,000 per acre to the farmers suffering crop loss in the recent rains without waiting for Central assistance. State president of the sangha and Green Brigade H.R. Basavarajappa said the rains had devastated crops … Read more
Public Health Scotland is looking into eleven cases across four health boards in the central belt. Source link
Reiterating that issues related to Minimum Support Price (MSP) are bigger than the farm laws, Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday alleged that Centre is planning to end MSP, Public Distribution System (PDS), government procurement and food security for the poor. The PCC chief further claimed that small farmers need the Punjab government’s … Read more
The government on Monday announced two measures aimed at increasing consumer spending — the LTC Cash Voucher scheme and Special Festival Advance Transfer scheme. The schemes primarily focus on offering cash benefits to central government employees as the government believes that it will lead to higher consumer spending during the festive season. Both schemes that … Read more