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New Delhi: The parliamentary committee has pulled up the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) for persistent underutilisation of funds and reduced physical targets across key schemes for persons with disabilities, warning that such lapses risk undermining their welfare. The 13th report of...

New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has raised a total amount of Rs 1,42,758 crore through different modes of asset monetisation up to FY 2024-25, and the target for the current financial year has been fixed at Rs 30,000 crore, Minister of...

New Delhi: Wayanad MP and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda Thursday to seek early implementation of health projects in her constituency and renewed the demand for starting an AIIMS in Kerala. Taking to X to share details of the...

Kathmandu: India's Ambassador to Nepal, Naveen Srivastava and Nepal's Minister of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Devendra Dahal jointly inaugurated a 70-metre span modular bridge built with Indian assistance over Hewa Khola in Panchthar district of Nepal. This bridge connecting the northern and southern parts of...

New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has warned that despite progress in profiling sanitation workers under the National Action for Mechanised Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE) scheme, significant gaps remain in providing them protective gear, health coverage and training. The Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment, in...

New Delhi: Parliament's Monsoon session, which concluded Thursday, saw frequent disruptions that overshadowed legislative business, with the House losing over 84 hours to forced adjournments, the highest in the 18th Lok Sabha. The month-long session that started July 21 had 21 sittings with 37 hours...

New Delhi: New Delhi has taken note of reports about China starting the construction of a mega dam on the lower reaches of Yarlung Tsangpo River (upper reaches of Brahmaputra) in Tibet, which the external affairs minister recently took up with the Chinese foreign minister...

Imphal:  The Kuki-Zo Council (KZC), apex body of the Kuki-Zo tribal community in Manipur, Thursday slammed former Chief Minister N. Biren Singh for his social media post in which he termed Myanmar nationals as "illegal entrants". The KZC expressed its deep concern "over the deliberate...

Moscow:  External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar, Thursday said that India's oil purchase from the US has been consistently increasing, as the August 27 deadline set by the Donald Trump administration to impose additional 25 per cent tariffs on India for buying Russian energy inches...

Mumbai: The upcoming film ‘Ajey: The Untold Story of a Yogi’ will be seen by the Bombay High Court, and will thereafter decide on Monday on the reasons or objections raised for the rejection of the film communicated by the CBFC to the Petitioner. The...