Naval ship arrives in Kochi with Indians from Maldives

This is the Indian Navy's first massive evacuation exercise from foreign soil during the COVID-19 lockdown. INS Jalashwa,carrying 698 repatriated Indian citizens from the Maldives, arrived at......

'Amit Shah has accomplished Sardar Patel's unfinished task'

'Nehru's hegemonic politics has been responsible for many ills, which undoubtedly includes Kashmir' 'People are completely with the step taken by the Modi government' 'Kashmir is not a......

LS polls: Women voters outshine men in 5 states

It’s all about women power. According to data compiled by the Election Commission, women have outnumbered men in casting their vote in five of the 13 states and union territories, which went......

Mercury slides in north; monsoon sets in over Kerala

Northern India experienced a slide in temperatures across the region even as the country's south welcomed the south-west monsoon which set in over Kerala and Lakshwadeep on Saturday. The mercury......

Over 1.4 lakh companies dormant in India: Govt

More than 1.4 lakh companies in India are lying dormant, with Maharashtra accounting for the largest number of such entities, followed by Delhi and Andhra Pradesh, the government said on Thursday.......

Govt rolls out rural biz hub scheme

The government has identified 846 products for which the business community could have a partnership with panchayats for establishing rural business hubs based on Chinese model.The rural business......

Census '01: 31% Muslims have economic role

A little less than a third of Muslims in India are engaged in economic activity, as against 40 per cent of the Hindu population, according to Census 2001 figures released by the government on......

Sharp decline in sex ratio

Results of the 2001 Census show that the child sex ratio, defined as the number of female children in the 0-6 age group per 1000 male children, has registered a whopping 32-point decline in urban......