Bihar’s caste survey a brave step forward, Maharashtra and other states should follow suit: NCP MLA

Bihar’s caste survey a brave step forward, Maharashtra and other states should follow suit: NCP MLA

The member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly representing the Mumbra-Kalwa constituency in Thane district made this demand in a video message posted on social media platform X on Monday night. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Jitendra Awhad has hailed the Bihar government’s caste survey and demanded … Read more

Bihar caste survey | OBCs, EBCs comprise more than 63% of State’s population

Bihar caste survey | OBCs, EBCs comprise more than 63% of State’s population

Enumerator staff collects informations from residents during the caste-based census survey, in Patna, Bihar. | Photo Credit: ANI The Bihar Government on October 2 released a report on the caste-based survey it had conducted amid a case pending in the Supreme Court on the validity of such a survey. According to the report released by … Read more

Rajasthan CM Gehlot not interested in State’s development: Union Minister Goyal

Rajasthan CM Gehlot not interested in State’s development: Union Minister Goyal

Piyush Goyal MURALI KUMAR K | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday said Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is not interested in development of the State and claimed that people who are suffering have made up their mind to change the Congress government. Mr. Goyal claimed that the Gehlot government … Read more

NIA cracks down on terror-gangster network in 6 States, one detained

NIA cracks down on terror-gangster network in 6 States, one detained

A view of National Investigation Agency (NIA), in New Delhi. File photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu The National Investigating Agency on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, conducted raids at 51 locations in six states in connection with the crackdown on a terror-gangster network operating in India and Canada, officials said. Also read: NIA declares ₹10 … Read more

Morning Digest | Supreme Court asks Centre, six States to respond to plea on lynchings; INDIA MPs to visit Manipur, and more

Morning Digest | Supreme Court asks Centre, six States to respond to plea on lynchings; INDIA MPs to visit Manipur, and more

The National Federation of Indian Women highlighted how the 2018 judgment of the apex court in Tehseen Poonawala case had foretold that lynchings and mob violence were “creeping threats” and need to be nipped in the bud. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Supreme Court asks Centre, six States to respond to plea on lynchings … Read more

Kerala PSC a model for other States: Minister

Kerala PSC a model for other States: Minister

Its complaint-free and transparent functioning has made the Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) a model for other States, Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal has said. He was laying the foundation stone for a multi-storeyed building for the PSC Kollam region office, district offices and online examination centre. “The new building equipped with modern facilities will be … Read more

HCA Healthcare says data breach may affect 11 million patients in 20 states – ET HealthWorld

HCA Healthcare says data breach may affect 11 million patients in 20 states – ET HealthWorld

Boston: HCA Healthcare, which operates 180 hospitals in the U.S. and Britain, says the personal data of about 11 million patients in 20 states may have been stolen in a data breach. Samples of the data, including addresses, phone numbers, emails and birth dates, were posted to an online forum popular with cybercrooks by a … Read more

NIA raids multiple locations across three States in “Ghazwa-e-Hind” module case 

NIA raids multiple locations across three States in “Ghazwa-e-Hind” module case 

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 2 conducted raids at multiple locations across three States in connection with a radicalised group named “Ghazwa-e-Hind”, being run by Pakistan-based suspects. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 2 conducted raids at multiple locations across three States in connection with … Read more

Childline to be merged with Emergency Response Support System in nine States and Union Territories

Childline to be merged with Emergency Response Support System in nine States and Union Territories

Image used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan In a first, the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has decided to do away with NGOs collaborating to run the successful Childline emergency counselling and distress helpline for children, established in 1995. According to Ministry officials, the merger is a part … Read more

States look for alternative ways to buy foodgrains as Centre restricts open market sale scheme

States look for alternative ways to buy foodgrains as Centre restricts open market sale scheme

Workers scatter wheat for drying in Amritsar. File | Photo Credit: PTI Even as the Union Food Ministry maintained that its recent decision to reduce the quantity of foodgrains a bidder can purchase under the Open Market Sale Scheme (Domestic) is to curb inflation, several States ruled by Opposition parties have started taking steps to … Read more