New Delhi: India has emerged as a key contributor to global progress in reducing child mortality, according to the latest United Nations report. The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME) Report 2025 highlighted India’s sustained and large-scale efforts in improving child survival outcomes, particularly across neonatal and under-five mortality indicators. Highlighting the report…
NEW DELHI: (Mar 18) State-run aerospace major Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) has told a parliamentary panel on defence that currently it has an order for supplying 34 Dhruv, 180 LCA Tejas Mk-1A aircraft and 156 Prachand attack helicopters to the armed forces. On LCA Mark 1 Alpha (Mk-1A), the HAL further told the Parliamentary Standing…
Kolkata: The Election Commission on Wednesday ordered a fresh round of reshuffle of senior officers in poll-bound West Bengal, appointing 13 IAS officers as DMs-cum-DEOs and posting five IPS officers as deputy inspectors general (DIGs). The IAS officers were appointed as district magistrates (DMs) who will also serve as district election officers (DEOs), placing them…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid tributes to 59 members retiring from the Rajya Sabha between April and July, calling Parliament “an open university” and urging outgoing legislators to continue contributing to national life. Addressing the Upper House on the occasion of the biennial farewell, Modi said such moments naturally dissolve partisan…
Indore: Seven persons were killed when a fire broke out after an explosion at an electric car charging point outside a three-storey house in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city early on Wednesday, officials said. Some cooking gas cylinders inside the house also exploded, which further intensified the fire, they said. The blaze erupted at the house…
New Delhi: Seven members of a family, including three children, died after a fire broke out in a multi-storey residential building in southwest Delhi’s Palam area on Wednesday morning, officials said. Two people jumped from the building in a bid to escape the flames and were admitted to a hospital, they said. A massive firefighting…
Kolkata: A TMC delegation met West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal and raised questions over alleged discrepancies in the post-SIR electoral rolls and the “delay” in publication of supplementary lists. The delegation, which included TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and Partha Bhowmick, along with state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, called on the CEO on Tuesday…
Mallapuram (Kerala): As the April 9 Kerala Assembly polls approach, anxiety is growing among Gulf-based Keralite voters who are unsure if they will be able to return home to cast their votes this time. The concern is driven mainly by the ongoing tensions in West Asia involving Iran and Israel, US allies, which have severely…
New Delhi: India must bolster its own naval capabilities in the Indian Ocean region, along with creating a more “flexible” security framework with Quad partner countries, as New Delhi stares down a growing China-Pakistan naval nexus, the parliamentary committee on external affairs recommended in a report Monday. “The Committee expresses concern regarding the escalating Chinese presence…
New Delhi: Ukraine has lodged a protest with India over the “detention” of six Ukrainian nationals on charges of entering Mizoram without authorization and for alleged unlawful activities. Ukraine’s ambassador Oleksandr Polishchuk met Secretary (West) in the External Affairs Ministry, Sibi George, and sought consular access to the Ukrainian nationals and their immediate release, according…
