Congress leader and Sivaganga MP Karti Chidambaram on Sunday defended Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin's Rs 5,000 cash transfer to 1.31 crore women under the Kalaignar Women's Rights Scheme. Speaking with ANI, he dismissed the "freebie" label often attached to cash transfers by critics
The initiative leverages cutting-edge technologies such as AI-powered diagnostics, telemedicine solutions and surveillance tools to bridge gaps in medical services, improve quality of care and make health services more affordable and accessible for all citizens.
Remembering the State's first Chief Minister, YS Parmar, the Chief Minister said that he enacted Section 118 of the law to protect the interests of the people of Himachal Pradesh, and the current State government is following in his footsteps. He said that the state had been receiving the
Two businessmen in Madhya Pradesh received extortion threat calls in the name of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and lodged complaints with the police, officials said on Friday.
Improving demand for commercial vehicles (CVs) and passenger vehicles (PVs), along with better fleet utilisation, supported growth in vehicle finance portfolios of auto-focused non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) in Q3FY26, and this momentum is likely to continue into the fourth quarter,
The Government of India has been supporting states in providing quality power to all consumers through schemes like Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY), Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (SAUBHAGYA), and the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS).
Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha said that through the joint statement titled the New Delhi Declaration at the Bharat 6G Symposium 2025, the international bodies endorsed the core princip
The forest region of Sukma, which remained isolated from the national mainstream for decades due to Naxal violence and blocked roads, is now writing a new story of change. Roads that once smelled of gunpowder and were shadowed by guns are now filled with buses running under the "Chief Min
New Delhi [India], February 12: The Union Budget 2025-26 presents a broad-based growth roadmap aimed at strengthening India's manufacturing ecosystem, empowering MSMEs, accelerating rural development, and easing the tax burden on citizens. With a clear focus on productivity, innovation, and
Under the new arrangement, the base year has been revised from 2012 to 2024 using Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24. Further, now there are 12 Divisions in place of 6 Groups in accordance to Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose (COICOP) 2018. The year-
An all-India general strike is being observed nationwide, with participation by workers in both urban and rural areas, including agricultural labourers. He stated that protests and road blockades were occurring at thousands of centres across India.