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Jammu: Union Minister Jitendra Singh Saturday said the central government is strengthening early intervention mechanisms for children with disabilities, with a focus on timely identification, treatment and rehabilitation. Cross-disability early intervention centres are being established across the country to facilitate early identification and provide appropriate...

New Delhi: The Congress urged Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar Saturday to take prompt action on concerns raised by Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy regarding the large-scale deletion of names from the voter list during a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Saturday stated that four more Indian nationals were rescued from a hydropower project in Nepal's Rasuwa, bringing the total number of rescued Indian nationals to 88. The ministry confirmed that the rescued individuals are Ripu Kumar, Chaneshwar...

Hingoli (Maharashtra): CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke Saturday visited a government-run school at Aundha in his home district of Hingoli as part of the School Thik Karo campaign and claimed to have found expired packets intended for student food. He also flagged issues, including a defective...

Kolkata: Kolkata Police have arrested one Trinamool Congress activist in connection with the row over the removal of an illegal billboard from the roof of Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee's house on Camac Street in Kolkata Thursday. The arrested person has been identified as Toufik....

New Delhi: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has told the Supreme Court that it has proposed to provide a prominent front-of-pack warning label in red colour for food products which are high in added saturated fat, added sugar and salt. In a...

Gorakhpur (UP):  A class 10 student of a private inter-college was allegedly raped repeatedly over four months by a teacher, who is also the son of the school manager, police said Saturday. The matter came to light after the 15-year-old girl allegedly attempted suicide Thursday...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a petition August 31 seeking a directive to the Centre and others to ensure mandatory and uniform labelling on every dispensing nozzle at petrol pumps, disclosing the exact percentage of ethanol in petrol. According to the...

Mumbai: Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya has written to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey, raising concerns over the newly introduced Closing Auction Session (CAS) mechanism after the Sensex witnessed an unusually sharp fall and recovery during the final minutes...

New Delhi: BJP president Nitin Nabin Saturday held a crucial meeting with party leaders to discuss and formulate the party's youth outreach plan, sources said. According to sources, the party's preparations for the upcoming assembly polls in seven states, including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Gujarat,...