As per the National Family and Health Survey-5, India now has more females than males for the first time on record. The survey's data has been drawn from around 600,000 households across the country. Showing a positive demographic shift, the survey released by the Indian health ministry on Wednesday (November 24), recorded 1,020 women per...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Noida International Airport, Uttar Pradesh today. Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, Union Ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia, Gen V K Singh, Sanjiv Baliyan, SP Singh Baghel and B L Varma were among those present on the occasion. The Noida airport will be the Delhi-NCR's second international airport...
New Delhi: India and the United States (US) have agreed on the significance of negotiating a Social Security Totalization Agreement in the interest of workers from both sides, and further engagement on pursuing an agreement. The discussions in the meeting between Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and US Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai...
New Delhi: Indian researchers studying an unnamed glacier in one of the less explored regions in the upper Kali Ganga valley in India have reported that the glacier had abruptly changed its main course. A team of scientists from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), Dehradun, Uttarakhand found that the unnamed NE moving glacier had...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to attend an all-party meeting to be convened on November 28, news reports said. The Winter Session of Parliament will commence on November 29 and is expected to continue till December 23. An official communique from the Lok Sabha secretariat read, "The Seventh Session of Seventeenth Lok Sabha will...
New Delhi: The BJP flayed the Congress saying that the book penned by its leader Manish Tewari has proved that the UPA government had put the country's national security at stake. Talking to mediapersons at the party headquarters here, BJP national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said: "Entire country knew this reality of UPA government, the saffron party...
Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against actor Kangana Ranaut in Mumbai following a complaint by members of the Sikh community for allegedly using derogatory language against them on social media. The FIR was filed by Amarjeet Singh Sandhu, a 47-year-old Mumbai-based businessman, along with leaders of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) and Shiromani Akali...
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said that India and China are going through a 'bad patch'. Highlighting that China lacks a 'credible explanation' for violating its bilateral agreements with India, Jaishankar said, "I don't think the Chinese have any doubt on where we stand on our relationship and what's not gone right with...
Chandigarh: Former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh will contest the upcoming assembly elections from his family stronghold of Patiala. "I will contest from Patiala. Patiala is with us for 400 years and I am not going to leave it due to Sidhu," Singh announced on his Facebook page, as he targeted his rival and Congress'...
