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Health budget likely to get 6% boost
1 March 2015 4:54 AM ISTAiming to provide affordable health for all, the Modi-led NDA government is set to increase outlays for health ministry in the second budget to be...
Agri Ministry nod to e-sale of agro produce
1 March 2015 4:53 AM ISTAiming to create an appropriate e-market platform that would be deployable in wholesale regulated markets across states and UTs, the Ministry of...
Govt sanctions adjunct faculty positions in 39 Central varsities
1 March 2015 4:52 AM ISTIn a bid to address the issue of faculty shortages that is hitting the students hard, the Union HRD ministry has sanctioned five adjunct faculty...
IR to borrow 47% more to fund FY16 capex
27 Feb 2015 6:47 AM ISTThe market borrowing as per the revised estimate by these two companies during the current fiscal was pegged at Rs 12,045 crore from markets,...
‘Will fund projects via long-term debt, not fare hikes or tax payer money’
27 Feb 2015 6:45 AM IST“Loan is way forward (infrastructure) development. Countries like US, China and Europe have taken loans for development of their infrastructure,”...
Rail budget to reignite cooling inflation
27 Feb 2015 6:44 AM ISTThe Railway Budget proposals, presented by Union Minister Suresh Prabhu in Parliament on Thursday, proposed a hike in freight rates for 12 commodities...
US not able to retain talented people, laments Obama
27 Feb 2015 6:39 AM ISTPresident Barack Obama has rued the US is not able to retain the global talent it trains them at its universities because of a broken immigration...
Police raid home after mistaking balloons for ‘IS’
27 Feb 2015 6:39 AM ISTIn a bizarre mix-up, Swedish police raided an apartment after a couple hung 21-shaped balloons to celebrate a birthday but it was mistaken for ‘IS’ in...
French PM slams MPs for meeting with Syrian ‘butcher’ Assad
27 Feb 2015 6:38 AM ISTFrance’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Thursday said that he “condemned with the greatest strength” a decision by three French lawmakers to meet with...
Senior bureaucrats from ministry likely to be summoned by police
27 Feb 2015 5:31 AM ISTThe Special Investigation Team (SIT) is keeping a vigil on former employees and a few senior bureaucrats from various ministries in connection to the...
CM Kejriwal wants to meet Khattar on water-sharing
27 Feb 2015 5:30 AM ISTThe development comes a day after Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government halved power rates for up to 400 units and made 20,000 litres of water free...
Rail Budget lacks vision, full of jargons: AAP
28 Feb 2015 5:21 AM ISTReacting up on the Rail Budget, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday, said that the Budget presented by railways minister Suresh Prabhu in the Lok...
Rebel, Romantic, Revolutionary
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Dip in murders; cybercrimes and crimes against STs spiked
1 Oct 2025 12:37 AM ISTTotal 1,71,418 suicide cases
1 Oct 2025 12:37 AM ISTOver 1.73L died in road accidents
1 Oct 2025 12:37 AM ISTOver 21,800 people killed in rail accidents
1 Oct 2025 12:36 AM ISTRise in crime against children
1 Oct 2025 12:36 AM IST