Aadhaar to pilot financial, banking services in 50 districts
Agartala: Aadhaar cards, the unique, 12-digit identification numbers given to residents of India, will soon be pressed into financial and banking services, to begin…
Teenage worker rescued 55 hours later from Jalandhar factor collapse debris
Jalandhar: A teenage boy was pulled out from the debris of the collapsed blanket factory here Wednesday, nearly 55 hours after the four-storey building…
To spur economy, Reserve Bank of India cuts interest rates
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today cut some key rates by 50 basis points in a bid to push industrial growth and…
Delhi votes BJP back to power in civic polls
New Delhi: A triumphant Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday retained control over Delhi’s civic administration, with the results of elections to the trifurcated Municipal…
Trial of Geelani’s aide begins
New Delhi: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court today began the trial of Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, a suspected aide of Kashmiri separatist leader…
Staff strike paralyses Kashmir government
Srinagar/Jammu: Work in government offices across Jammu and Kashmir was paralysed today as employees struck work Tuesday demanding an increase in the retirement age…
Rescuers strive to save buried workers in Punjab
Jalandhar: Rescuers today raced against time in Punjab’s Jalandhar city to save the lives of dozens of garment workers who were trapped under the…
Industrialist held after factory collapse leaves six dead
Jalandhar (Punjab): Prominent industrialist Sheetal Vij has been arrested after a factory building owned by him collapsed, leaving at least six workers dead and…
For bearing daughters, woman killed in Punjab
Chandigarh: A woman was allegedly strangulated to death by her husband in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district as he was upset that she had given…
BJP government protecting land mafia – Himachal congress
Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh unit of the Congress Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of being “in league with the land mafia”…