The data pertaining to the number of private security agencies in the country is not maintained centrally. This data is maintained at the level of State/UT, said Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) requested Pakistan's caretaker government to deploy the army and civil armed forces at polling stations during the upcoming general elections on February 8 next year, The Express Tribune reported.
This is that period of Indian history that will write the future of the country not just for 5-10 years but for the coming centuries, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while attending the Navy Day celebrations in Maharashtra's Sindhudurg on Monday.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Rameswar Teli, minister of state in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, apprised that Uttar Pradesh, Maharastra and Karnataka are ethanol surplus states.
In a poignant ceremony on Sunday, Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog paid tribute to the memory of fallen heroes of Kibbutz Be'eri by inscribing a letter in a Torah scroll being written for the rebuilding community's synagogue.
The regional office of the Enforcement Directorate in Madurai has written to Tamil Nadu's Director General of Police, seeking the registration of an FIR against those Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Department officials of the state government who searched its premises earlier this week.
West Bengal has not adhered to provisions of the agreement signed with the Union government for the implementation of the National Health Mission, alleged the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday, amid media reports saying that the central government has withheld the release
Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali on Saturday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, claiming that the report to be tabled by the Ethics Committee in connection with the 'cash for query' charge against TMC leader Mahua Moitra has a 'full paragraph' on his conduct during the panel's hearing
Makers of the upcoming comedy-drama film 'Dunki' starring Shah Rukh Khan recently unveiled the new track of the film 'Nikle The Kabhi Hum Ghar Se' which received good responses from the audience.
The Ethics Committee, which probed the 'cash-for-query' allegations against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, is slated to lay its report in Lok Sabha on the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament on December 4.