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Former Air India CMD Ashwani Lohani is new director of Prime Ministers Museum and Library

Former Air India chief Ashwani Lohani, an Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineering (IRSME) officer of the 1980 batch, has been appointed as the director of the Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML) in New Delhi, months after the tenure

India’s Ramsar Site tally touches 91 as two more Rajasthan wetlands gain recognition

On the eve of World Environment Day, India on Wednesday added two more wetlands—Khichan in Phalodi and Menar in Udaipur—to the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance . With these additions, India’s total count of Ramsar Sites now stands

Monsoon session of Parliament to commence from July 21: Kiren Rijiju

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday announced that the Monsoon session of the Parliament will commence from July 21, and run till August 12. Both Houses of the Parliament are scheduled to convene on July 21 at 11

Garden Reach inks pact with Norway firm, India to build its first polar research vehicle

Kolkata-based Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), a Government of India undertaking, signed an MoU with Norwegian firm Kongsberg on Tuesday to co-design and build India’s first-ever polar research vehicle (PRV) indigenously. The MoU was signed in Oslo in

Railway ministry exerted excess pressure to clear appointments of candidates who ‘gifted land to Lalu Prasad’: CBI in ‘land-for-jobs’ case

Officials with the Ministry of Railways exerted excessive pressure to clear the job applications of Group-D candidates who allegedly gifted land parcels to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad and his family in exchange for railway jobs, the Central Bureau

Witness in murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh complains of receiving threat call ahead of court appearance

A panchnama witness involved in the identification of a house in the Belagavi region of Karnataka that was allegedly used to finalise the conspiracy to kill the journalist Gauri Lankesh has complained of receiving a threat ahead of his visit

Congress chief Kharge asks Centre to provide funds for northeastern states grappling with floods

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday attacked the Modi government over the flood situation in the northeastern states, and hoped Prime Minister Narendra Modi will open the floodgates of his PM CARES Fund, where he claimed crores lie without any

Heavy downpour continues, red alert sounded in all districts of Tripura

The Tripura government Sunday issued a red alert for all eight districts of the state in view of the heavy rainfall in the past two days and the forecast of more rain in the next 24 hours. “The state government

Year after acid attack, conflicting accounts and a Jharkhand family still waiting for justice, reconstructive surgery

In April 2024, Hasina Bibi, 37, a single mother of three, was sleeping on the roof of their family-run eatery in the Rajmahal subdivision of Jharkhand’s Sahebganj district when, at around midnight, a man allegedly climbed up from a neighbouring

Operation Shield: From J&K to Gujarat, air raid to drone attack simulations, mock rescue ops held weeks after India-Pak ‘ceasefire’

More than two weeks after New Delhi and Islamabad agreed to cessation of hostilities, four Indian states and two Union Territories neighbouring Pakistan held simulation exercises to prepare for air raids, drone attacks and other wartime scenarios on Saturday. Emergency

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