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New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday extended by two more years, till September 25, 2024, the facility that allows its employees to visit Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and northeast while availing leave travel concession (LTC). The eligible central government employees get reimbursement of tickets for to and fro journeys, besides paid […]
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Ramban/Jammu: Union Minister John Barla on Tuesday said Jammu and Kashmir is striding fast on the path of development as he launched several projects including three water-supply schemes in Ramban district. The minister of state for minority affairs visited the hilly district as part of the Centre’s third phase of the public outreach programme in […]
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New Delhi: Chief Justice of India U U Lalit on Tuesday recommended to the Centre the name of the senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud as his successor. Justice Chandrachud, who has been part of several Constitution benches and landmark verdicts of the top court including on matters relating to the Ayodhya land […]
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Saifai (UP): Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav was cremated with full state honours at his native Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday afternoon. His son and party chief Akhilesh Yadav lit the funeral pyre. The former Uttar Pradesh CM had died aged 82 at a private hospital in Haryana’s Gurugram on Monday. His […]
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Scheme will increase accessibility of veterinary services at farmer’s doorsteps: Lt Guv
SRINAGAR: Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Parshottam Rupala and Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Tuesday launched ‘A-HELP’ (Accredited Agent for Health and Extension of Livestock Production) programme and Mobile Veterinary Unit Scheme in the Union Territory of J&K. Union Minister Shri Parshottam Rupala, who presided over the launch ceremony, congratulated the UT government […]
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But still among lowest performers in health spending: Report
New Delhi: India has moved up six places to rank 123 out of 161 countries for reducing inequality but continues to be among the lowest performers in health spending, according to the latest Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRII). The 2022 CRII looks at government policies and actions in 161 countries to fight inequality during […]
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Lahore: Pakistan’s Railways and Aviation Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Tuesday that no proposal is under consideration to resume air and rail link between Pakistan and India. The air and land link between the two countries were suspended following India’s move to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in 2019. The train […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted the pleas seeking ‘Talaq-e-Hasan’ and all other forms of “unilateral extrajudicial divorce” to be declared unconstitutional. ‘Talaq-e-Hasan’ is a form of divorce among Muslims by which a man can dissolve the marriage by pronouncing the word ‘talaq’ once every month over a three-month period. A three-judge bench […]
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Beijing: Direct passenger flight services between India and China are unlikely to resume in the near future unless Beijing modifies its policy of sudden cancellation of scheduled flights every time some passengers are tested positive for COVID on arrival in Chinese airports, informed sources here said. Flight services between the two countries have been disrupted […]
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New Delhi: Forty-two posts of information commissioners are vacant across the country against the sanctioned strength of 165 and two states are working without chief information commissioners (CICs), an official report said on Tuesday. Issues like non-compliance in proactive disclosure by public authorities, hostile approach of public information officers (PIOs) towards citizens and misinterpreting provisions […]
