The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sought yet another extension to frame the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sought yet another extension to frame the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). The legislation that fast-tracks citizenship … Read more
The Union Cabinet has assigned the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting as the administrative authority for the regulation of online advertisements. The amendment to the Allocation of Business (AoB) Rules, 1961, dated July 28 and published on Monday, places “online advertisements” under the purview of the I&B Ministry. The I&B Ministry was already looking at … Read more
While the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has demanded that only medical postgraduates be appointed as teachers in medical colleges, the M.Sc. Medicine Association (India) has appealed to the Health Ministry, stating that M.Sc. holders have been denied their right to teach by creating a “false narrative”. “The narrative states that we are non-medical teachers with non-medical … Read more
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh | Photo Credit: File photo Defence Minister Rajnath Singh chaired a meeting of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defence on Self-reliance in Defence Manufacturing in Bengaluru on June 16. During the meeting, members of the committee from both the Houses of Parliament were apprised about the initiatives by … Read more
Details from the CoWIN portal, including Aadhaar, passport, gender, date of birth, were leaked online following a data breach. Image for representational purpose only. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Health Ministry is yet to respond to the massive CoWIN (Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network), data breach which allows access to all personal details that … Read more
The Ministry said rice fortification has been adopted by seven countries, including the U.S., since 1958. | Photo Credit: V. Raju The Union Food Ministry, on Friday, countered the Opposition Congress’s allegation that the distribution of fortified rice through fair price shops is being done despite multiple warnings by experts and institutions such as NITI … Read more
Gender may be fluid, but for a child, the “idea of mother cannot be”, a host of government bodies led by the Ministry of Women and Child Development told a Constitution Bench. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Gender may be fluid, but for a child, the “idea of mother cannot be”, … Read more
New Delhi: The Union health ministry has asked the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to look into the reported attempt of hacking of its website allegedly by a Russian hacker group. Cyber security experts from CloudSEK have claimed that the Russian hacker group ‘Phoenix‘ targeted the … Read more
New Delhi: Cybersecurity company CloudSEK’s AI digital-risk platform XVigil on Wednesday detected a Russian-origin threat-actor group that claimed to have targeted the Indian health ministry’s health-management information system. Access to the personnel directory and chief physicians of every Indian hospital is likely to have been jeopardised. This raises the prospect of exfiltration of licence documents … Read more
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal By 2026, Indian industry will be able to manufacture solar modules worth 100 gigawatts (GW) annually, and help the country be a net exporter of solar power. This would significantly aid India’s target of installing 500 GW of electricity capacity from non-fossil sources by 2030, Bhupinder Bhalla, … Read more