Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) has extended support to the countrywide strike by postal employees on August 10 against corporatisation/privatisation.
Chief minister Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday virtually transferred an amount of Rs 5.60 crore into the bank accounts of cattle-rearers, women self-help groups (SHGs) and gauthan (cow shelter) committees under the Godhan Nyay Yojana. State government has till date paid Rs 301.
The social justice and empowerment department has devised new methods to prevent online fraud and hacking of the system to secure benefits under the social security pension schemes through Jan Aadhar numbers.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat is in Bhopal till August 6. According to RSS sources, Bhagwat has come to state capital to participate in the central committee meeting of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and will attend the training camp of NRIs for next two days.
A week after the director of a school in UP’s Shahjahanpur was booked for allegedly kidnapping and raping a teacher, police have now registered an FIR against the 22-year-old woman teacher and three of her male friends for alleged “sextortion”.
China to hold fresh drills around Taiwan despite US condemnation
On October 31, 1984, 10-year-old P Sekhar was out spreading the news of the death of Indira Gandhi in his village of Pannaiyur, on the outskirts of Madurai. In those days, when radios and television sets were a luxury in rural India, news travelled the old way — using a ‘tom-tom’ or ‘tandora’ as...