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New Delhi: Only 1,761 anganwadi-cum-creches are operational out of 11,395 approved, the Women and Child Development Ministry said Wednesday. The establishment of creches in Anganwadis was announced in 2023. These anganwadi-cum-creches (AWCCs)aim to help provide care to children in the age group of six months...

New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has noted that the Minority Affairs Ministry's actual expenditure has gone down considerably in previous years due to the system being streamlined to ensure funds reach only the deserving people without being misused. In the eighth report on 'Demands for...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday asked the state government to decide the remission plea of a repenting Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving life sentence for the murders of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons in Keonjhar district...

New Delhi: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Wednesday said that 7,971 incidents of stone pelting on trains, including Vande Bharat, have been reported from 2023 till February 2025, with 4,549 people arrested in these cases. In the Lok Sabha, Dharmapuri Arvind, a BJP MP, raised the...

New Delhi: India Wednesday said it is concerned over the situation in Gaza and called for the supply of humanitarian assistance to people of the conflict-hit Palestinian territory. India's comments came as Israel resumed air strikes in Gaza Tuesday triggering uncertainty over the fragile ceasefire...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Wednesday, approved the proposal for setting up a new brownfield ammonia-urea complex in Assam with an annual capacity of producing 12.7 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of urea with an estimated total project cost of...

Jammu: Addressing the apprehensions of National Conference (NC) MLA, Javaid Iqbal Choudhary, who Wednesday wanted a CBI probe to find out whether there was a larger conspiracy behind the mysterious deaths in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, the government told the Assembly that an investigation...

Meerut: Meerut police have made shocking revelations in the murder case of ex-Merchant Navy officer Saurabh Rajput, whose body was found in a cement-sealed drum. His wife, Muskaan Rastogi, and her lover, Sahil Shukla, allegedly planned the murder since November 2024. According to the police,...

Hyderabad: The Telangana High Court Wednesday quashed a case registered against Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy in 2020 for flying a drone without permission to record visuals of a farmhouse at Janwada near Hyderabad. The case was registered against Revanth Reddy in March 2020 when...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday fixed April 16 for hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging the law passed by the Parliament, which excludes the Chief Justice of India (CJI) from the process of appointment of top officials of the Election Commission. A bench...