New Delhi: The unemployment rate for persons aged 15 years and above in urban areas declined to 6.8 per cent during January-March 2023 from 8.2 per cent a year ago, the National Sample Survey Survey (NSSO) showed. Joblessness or unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of unemployed persons in the labour force. Joblessness was high…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday asked visiting British Minister Lord Tariq Ahmad to ensure security of India’s diplomatic missions in the UK and prevent misuse of democratic freedoms. Jaishankar’s assertions during a meeting with Lord Ahmad, the Minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, came against the backdrop of…
Chennai: Wrestlers who have charged Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) former chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment have only made allegations and not furnished evidence and there is a process of law to be followed after complaints are made, TN BJP president K Annamalai said on Monday. Annamalai, a former IPS…
New Delhi: Amid infighting in the Rajasthan Congress, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday said the party high command is strong and it will never offer any position to any leader or worker to pacify him. His remarks came ahead of a strategy meeting with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on the upcoming polls in the…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday exuded confidence that the party will bag 150 seats in the upcoming assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh. Speaking to the media after the party’s poll preparedness meeting at the AICC headquarters here, he said the party would continue its winning streak in Madhya Pradesh after emerging victorious…
Guwahati: The Centre is providing all support to Manipur, which has been hit by deadly ethnic violence, and the situation is “returning to normal”, Union Minister Nisith Pramanik said on Monday. The remarks of the minister of state for home affairs come on a day Union Home Amit Shah begins his four-day visit to the…
New Delhi: A 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death allegedly by her boyfriend in northwest Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy area, a video of which is being widely shared on social media, police said on Monday. The accused allegedly stabbed her multiple times before bludgeoning her with a stone. The body of the victim, a resident of…
New Delhi, May 29 (PTI) The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging notifications enabling exchange of Rs 2,000 currency notes without any requisition slip and ID proof. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Kumar Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad rejected the petition, which has challenged the notifications by the RBI and SBI…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday took a dig at the government over the completion of nine years in office, accusing it of “looting” people’s earnings through “deadly inflation” while making “arrogant claims” about it. The BJP-led government at the Centre completed nine years in office on May 26. It has highlighted the…
Guwahati: Rail Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday said before 2014, the allocation for the railways for the northeast was Rs 2,000 crore but, under the Modi government, it has increased to Rs 10,200 crore, helping expedite projects in the region. Talking to reporters at the Guwahati railway station before the launch of the Guwahati-New Jalpaiguri Vande…
