Community backing BJP in Telangana after Sub-Categorisation assuranceNew Delhi: Days after promising reservation for Madigas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and other senior officials to expedite the formation of a committee for sub-categorisation in Scheduled Caste reservation for the community, mainly...

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CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana HC has provided notification to the central federal government on a petition filed by a former woman officer of the Indian Army looking for instructions that the term ex-serviceman be changed by gender-neutral and gender-inclusive terms such as ex-service members or ex-service workers . Her primary contention is that she is a woma ...

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HYDERABAD: With the assembly surveys less than a week away, the BRS federal government got a shot in the arm on Friday with the Election Commission authorizing the dispensation of Rythu Bandhu totals up to farmers in Telangana.Armed with ECI's nod, the state federal government will begin disbursing the plan's cash in a day or 2 by transferring it into the far ...

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DEHRADUN: Court commissioner Alok Mehra, appointed by the Uttarakhand high court to conduct site inspections and submit a report on the adverse impact of illegal mining on rivers in the state, told the court on Friday that “huge pits have been formed, causing serious damage to the ecology of several rivers".The HC directed the government to file...

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SIKYARA: Even as multi-agency teams are involved in efforts to save the 41 employees trapped in the under-construction Silkyara tunnel, villagers of the area are praying for the success of the operation by invoking regional deities.One of the ways they are doing so is by singing Garhwali folk 'jagars', which are devotional songs meant to seek pro ...

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HYDERABAD: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao has assured to establish a special information technology (IT) park for Muslim youth at Pahadishareef near Hyderabad, if the BRS is voted back to office.Congress, BJP unable to absorb appeal of BRS, we're not anybody's 'B' team: K KavithaAddressing a rally at Maheshwaram on Thursday, he said Congress ...

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