AI will help make 'life-or-death' calls in rammed UK asylum systemThe governing Labour party has pledged to hire more asylum caseworkers and set up a new returns and enforcement unit to fast-track removals...
09 May, 2025, 08.20 PM IST
Media investigation identifies 66,000 Russian soldiers killed in UkraineIndependent Russian media outlet Mediazona reported that over 66,000 Russian military personnel have died in Ukraine. The figure, compiled ...
31 Aug, 2024, 06.27 PM IST
Relief for H-1B spouses as US Supreme Court refuses to review work visa rulesAbout a hundred thousand Indian spouses, predominantly women, possess an EAD, granting them the ability to work or be self-employed. Offici...
05 Nov, 2023, 01.25 PM IST
NIT Silchar students stage Satyagraha demanding justice for student who died by SuicideThe students alleged that Buker was not allowed to go to the classes in fifth semester and was repeatedly insulted by the Dean Academics, B...
18 Sep, 2023, 07.55 PM IST
India had the highest excess deaths related to Coronavirus, says Lancet in new reportThe new study provides the first peer-reviewed estimates of excess deaths due to the pandemic globally and for 191 countries and territorie...
11 Mar, 2022, 06.53 AM IST
Reports claiming underreporting of Covid deaths fallacious: GovernmentThe government defended India's Covid-19 death reporting after a report in the journal Science by prominent epidemiologist Prabhat Jha of U...
15 Jan, 2022, 06.51 AM IST
A fifth of Covid-19 deaths listed in Kerala on appeal of familiesIn August, the state reported about 27% of India's Covid-19 deaths, a big jump from previous months. In September, it accounted for about 4...
19 Nov, 2021, 07.16 AM IST
South Delhi civic body issued over 20,000 death certificates in April-June amid Covid second waveAs compared to April, the number of death certificates is about 204% higher in May because of the COVID-19 second wave. While the figure in...
21 Jul, 2021, 08.01 PM IST
Covid death recount: Late reporting is not peculiar to India aloneIn June three states — Maharashtra, Bihar and Goa — reported around 8,000 fatalities not recorded earlier, pushing up the death count.
12 Jun, 2021, 07.56 AM IST
Government to buy 7.60 lakh medals for soldiersThough much-delayed, the move to procure the 7.60 lakh medals for about Rs 28 crore is a welcome step since the basic ethos of soldiers rev...
11 Jul, 2018, 04.37 PM IST
Failure of railway staff biggest cause of accidents: ReportRailway has constituted a task force on safety on December 6 last year after the derailment near Kanpur, killing 151 people.
29 Jan, 2017, 09.27 PM IST
Mercy pleas of Bihar’s Bara massacre convicts reach President after 14 yearsMercy pleas of Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir Kuer Paswan and Dharmendra Singh reportedly went missing in 2014.
23 Aug, 2016, 02.18 AM IST
Dengue cases near 1000 mark, five deaths so farFive dengue deaths have been reported so far in the national capital even as the total number of cases shot up alarmingly to near 1,000 mar...
20 Sep, 2013, 05.18 PM IST
President bound by Council Of Ministers’ advice in matters pertaining to clemency powersSuccessive Presidents have chosen to take advantage of a minor loophole in the Constitution — that there is no time frame to take the decis...
18 Feb, 2013, 11.58 AM IST
- Rashtrapati Bhavan defends clemency decisions
Rashtrapati Bhavan has defended its granting mercy to some death row convicts saying the power is not a private act of grace but a part of ...
25 Jun, 2012, 07.07 PM IST
- 1.7 lakh vacancies in railways, says Mamata
Indian Railways has over 1.7 lakh vacancies which will be filled after the current recruitment process is reviewed, Railway Minister Mamata...
10 Jul, 2009, 01.06 PM IST
- 1.7 lakh vacancies in Railways, Mamata informs Rajya Sabha
Indian Railways has over 1.7 lakh vacancies which will be filled after the current recruitment process is reviewed, railway minister Mamata...
10 Jul, 2009, 12.59 PM IST