Centre to fully implement rice fortification programme before March 2024 targetThe government will implement fully rice fortification programme before the scheduled target of March 2024, a top food ministry official sa...
NIA files charge sheet against 11 in PFI conspiracy case in TelanganaThe case was initially registered on July 4 at the VI-Town police station in Telangana's Nizamabad district and was later re-registered by ...
Lab-grown blood given to people in world-first clinical trialThis is the first time in the world that red blood cells that have been grown in a laboratory have been given to another person as part of ...
J'khand govt to roll out scheme to distribute fortified rice under PDS; rights activists raise concernFood rights activists have raised concern over the 'Rice Fortification Scheme (RFS)', alleging that health impacts due to the consumption o...
Took 3 months of meticulous probe to bust 'kachcha-baniyan' gang: former Delhi Police chiefIt was the early 1990s, and the pressure to nab them was tremendous, recalls former Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar whose book forms...
Sri Lankan President blames unidentified 'extremist' group for violent protest in ColomboSri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office blamed an unidentified 'extremist' group for creating the violent situation during the pr...
‘Thali’, ‘handi’, ‘paniki’: Unique inventions of the Indian kitchen by women who remain namelessThe ‘thali’ with the rim on the edge, which prevents liquids from falling, is a unique Indian invention. As is the ‘handi’, the cooking pot...
Election symbols keep up with modern IndiaTo attract voters, EC should ensure that at least the gadgets are new models.
Everything you need to know about thalassaemiaAround 3.4% of the global population are carriers of thalassaemia.
Bihar polls: In Darbhanga, the rat-eating community looks to Jitan Ram Manjhi for salvationManjhi might turn out to be the flicker of hope the Musahars are looking for as Darbhanga goes to polls on October 23.
Free Jharkhand from dynastic rule, corruption: Prime Minister Narendra Modi"If you want Jharkhand to move on the path of development then free Jharkhand from pariwarwad (dynastic rule)," Modi said.
PM Modi's Japan visit: India to work with Japan in finding Sickle Cell Anaemia remedyThe Prime Minister, on the second day of his Japan tour, raised the issue during his visit to the Stem Cell Research facility.
Protest held over delay in passage of Disability Rights billThe bill, which seeks to broaden the ambit of disability from existing seven to nineteen categories is stuck owing to disruptions in Parlia...
BJP to collect 250g iron from Bihar farmers for Vallabh Bhai Patel statueGujarat plans to erect the 182 metre statue, the world's tallest one, at Sadhu Bet, an island near the Sardar Sarovar Dam.
- Comrades then, foes now: CPM faces ‘insider’ test
Saifuddin Chowdhury and Bratin Sengupta, two ex-MPs from CPM are in the fray this time but against their own earlier party, which they quit...
- Orissa cops friendly with attackers, says raped nun
The Catholic nun who was raped by a mob in Kandhamal in Orissa spoke out about her ordeal and reiterated her demand for a CBI probe into th...