No sweeping power or a draconian move: MoS IT on govt's fact-checking unit

New Delhi (IANS) Amid the debate over the government forming a fact-checking unit to curb the flow of misinformation on various social media platforms, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, on Saturday said there are…

Education Minister Jaggarnath Mahto cremated with full state honours at his ancestral village

Ranchi: Last rites of Jharkhand’s Education Minister Jaggarnath Mahto who had died while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Chennai was performed with full state honour at the banks of the Damodar river in Bhandaridah of Bermo block in Bokaro district…

Mortal remains of late Jaggarnath Mahto brought to assembly, CM leads legislators in paying tributes

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren led the state in paying tributes to late Education Minister Jaggarnath Mahto at the Jharkhand Vidhansabha. Earlier the mortal remains of the minister reached early morning at the Ranchi Airport from Chennai…

Covid Review: Health minister seeks 50,000 vaccines amid spike in cases, says vaccine stock at zero in Jharkhand

Ranchi: Jharkhand’s health minister Banna Gupta has urged the Centre to provide at least 50,000 vaccines to continue the vaccination drive against the coronavirus. He raised the issue in a review meeting conducted by the union health minister Dr Mansukh…

District administration issues joint order in wake of Ranchi bandh and protests, magistrates and police officers deputed

Ranchi: A Joint order of Deputy Commissioner-cum- District Magistrate, Ranchi and Senior Superintendent of Police, Ranchi for the maintenance of law and order and security system in view of protest against the new recruitment policy proposed by the…

Akali Dal exposes Rs 200-crore liquor scam in Punjab

Chandigarh (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Friday exposed a Rs 200-crore liquor scam in the Excise Department in Punjab and demanded a CBI probe into the fraud and arrest of all guilty on the same pattern as followed in Delhi.

Exposing…

HAL hands over 100th Su-30 MKI ROH aircraft to IAF

Nashik/Bengaluru (IANS) Union Defence Secretary Giridhar Aramane on Friday inaugurated the third LCA production line and also handed over the 100th Sukhoi-30 MKI ROH aircraft to Air Vice Marshal Sarin at HAL's Nashik Division.

The Signal…

West did not give diplomacy a chance in Ukraine: Brazil's Lula

Brasilia (IANS) Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that neither Ukraine nor Russia can achieve every goal they've set in their conflict, but need a mediator to facilitate peace talks, while faulting the EU and the US were…

Fake PMO official arrested in J&K to be brought to Gujarat

Ahmedabad (IANS) Conman Kiran Patel, who was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir last month for posing as a top official in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), is likely to be brought to Ahmedabad on Friday night, an official said.

A team of Ahmedabad…

After getting a gun, Salman Khan zips around in a bullet-proof imported SUV

Mumbai (IANS) Under threats from various quarters, Bollywood mega-star Salman Khan has acquired a swank white bullet proof SUV in which he zips around, barely months after getting a gun licence for self-defence, sources close to the actor said.