Centre Issues Comprehensive Guidelines for Public Grievance Redressal

August 26, 2024 8:10 PM

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Centre Issues Comprehensive Guidelines for Public Grievance Redressal

Centre has issued Comprehensive Guidelines for Handling Public Grievances to make grievance redressal time-bound, accessible and meaningful. The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions said the guidelines for effective redressal of public grievances seek to empower citizens, streamline...

Ladakh: Drass Officially Declared as New District

August 26, 2024 6:40 PM

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Ladakh: Drass Officially Declared as New District

In Ladakh, Drass has been officially declared a new district, a move that has been met with widespread celebration. Fayaz Ahmad Qari, Chief Patron of BJP Drass, expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah for fulfilling this long-standing demand of t...

Crude Oil Prices Surge Nearly 3%

August 26, 2024 6:30 PM

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Crude Oil Prices Surge Nearly 3%

Crude oil prices gained close to three per cent today on renewed concerns that an escalating Gaza conflict could disrupt regional oil supplies, extending gains from Friday when the prospect of US interest rate cuts lifted the global economic and fuel demand outlook.   The global oil benchmark B...

Polygraph Test Being Conducted on R G Kar Medical College Officials

August 26, 2024 6:24 PM

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Polygraph Test Being Conducted on R G Kar Medical College Officials

Polygraph test is being conducted on the former principal of the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital at CGO Complex of Kolkata. CBI is interrogating the former Medical Superintendent cum Vice Principal MSVP Dr Sanjay Vashist and Dr Debashis Som of the Forensic Department of the R G Kar Medical Coll...

Maharashtra Market Committees Call Off Bandh

August 26, 2024 5:58 PM

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Maharashtra Market Committees Call Off Bandh

All market committees across Maharashtra have called off the 'bandh' scheduled for tomorrow, August 27. This decision came after a meeting between merchants' representatives and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, which was also attended by Minister of Skills, Employment, Entrepreneurship, and ...

Archer Sheetal Devi, India’s Top Medal Hope for Paris Paralympics

August 26, 2024 5:54 PM

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Archer Sheetal Devi, India’s Top Medal Hope for Paris Paralympics

Asian Para Games gold medallist archer Sheetal Devi is one of India's top Medal Hopes at the Paris Paralympics, which is set to begin on 28 August.   The 17-year archer from Jammu district was born with phocomelia, a rare congenital disorder. She is the world’s first and only active female arch...

Asian Markets: Hang Seng & Straits Times Rise, Nikkei & Kospi Fall

August 26, 2024 5:47 PM

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Asian Markets: Hang Seng & Straits Times Rise, Nikkei & Kospi Fall

In the Asian market, three out of five indices are in green today. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was up 1.05 per cent, Singapore's Straits Times index increased 0.24 per cent and China's Shanghai Composite Index marginally added 0.04 per cent. Conversely, Japan's Nikkei-225 slipped 0.67 per cent and S...

Prof Yunus’s speech lacks roadmap for transition to democracy: BNP

August 26, 2024 8:45 PM

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Prof Yunus’s speech lacks roadmap for transition to democracy: BNP

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday voiced frustration that the Head of the Interim Government of Bangladesh Prof. Mohammad Yunus' address to the nation lacked a roadmap for transition to democracy.   Speaking at a discussion, Fakhrul hoped...