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March 21, 2025 9:12 PM March 21, 2025 9:12 PM

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President Droupadi Murmu Urges AIIMS Faculty to Launch Mental Health Awareness Drive

President Droupadi Murmu has urged the AIIMS faculty to launch an awareness drive on the issue of mental health to make people aware of this hidden sickness. The president said the issue of emotional health poses a serious challenge in today’s world. Addressing the 49th convocation of All India Inst...

March 21, 2025 7:34 PM March 21, 2025 7:34 PM

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Lok Sabha Passes Demands for Grants, Appropriation Bill for 2025-26

The Lok Sabha has passed Demands for Grants of various ministries for 2025-26 in respect of the Union Budget. During the proceedings, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla applied the guillotine to pass the Demands for Grants for the Ministries, including Chemicals and Fertilisers, Power, Commerce and Industry...

March 21, 2025 6:35 PM March 21, 2025 6:35 PM

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India Raises Concern Over US Deportation Practices, Seeks Humane Treatment

India has strongly registered its concerns with the US authorities on the treatment meted out to deportees on the flight that landed on the 5th of last month in Amritsar, particularly with respect to the use of shackles, especially on women. This was stated by Minister of State for External Affairs ...

March 21, 2025 5:08 PM March 21, 2025 5:08 PM

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India Protests China’s New Counties in Hotan, Reaffirms Sovereignty Over Ladakh

India has registered its solemn protest through diplomatic channels over the creation of new counties in Hotan prefecture of China. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh noted that parts of the jurisdiction of these so-called counties fall in Ind...

March 21, 2025 2:34 PM March 21, 2025 2:34 PM

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IMD Forecasts Intense Thunderstorms, Heavy Rain Across East, Central & South India

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast intense thunderstorm activity to continue over parts of East and Central India during the next 2 days. According to the IMD, heavy rainfall will likely descend over parts of Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal and North Odisha today.   Meanwhile, li...

March 21, 2025 4:41 PM March 21, 2025 4:41 PM

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Lok Sabha Debates Agriculture Grants; Dharmendra Yadav Slams BJP on Farmers’ Plight

The Lok Sabha has taken up discussion on the Demands for Grants related to the Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Ministry for the year 2025-26. Initiating the discussion, Dharmendra Yadav of the Samajwadi Party highlighted the plights of the farmers in the country. He accused the BJP of being insensiti...

March 21, 2025 1:56 PM March 21, 2025 1:56 PM

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Terrorism is dynamic, evolving challenge transcending borders: Defence Secretary

Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said that terrorism remains a dynamic and evolving challenge with threats increasingly transcending borders. The Secretary said this during the 14th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) Experts Working Group (EWG) on Counter-Terrorism in New Delhi ye...